A Moderated Mediation Model of Dark Triad and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Roles of Workplace Incivility and Islamic Work Ethics

Abstract

An Individual’s negative personality affects interpersonal relationships, behaviors, and outputs that become a cause of harmfulness at the workplace, fallout of organizational productivity and lessening of positiveness between the employees. The present study encompasses research interrelated to dark personality traits and organizational citizenship behavior by demonstrating an ethical (Islamic Work Ethics) mechanism that alleviates the negative behaviors (workplace incivility) of these personalities. With a sample of 268 permanent employees from the public sector, data analyzed by using hierarchical regression and Hayes PROCESS to test the hypothesis of this study formed with the foundation of the theory of threatened egotism and ethical climate theory. We found support for our hypothesis that dark traits predict workplace incivility that harms the OCB of individuals and high level of Islamic Work Ethics effects the dark personalities and their uncivil behavior which damages OCB at the workplace. This study contributes to the literature of OB and Psychology by providing deeper insight into the potentially harmful effects of dark traits in the form of workplace incivility on OCB. Also, this study contributes by explaining the underlying mechanism of moderated mediation boundary conditions that are important for theory and practice as well for the managers and practitioners as well.