Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior

IF 4.3 2区管理学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI:10.1111/padm.12976

Bernard Bernards, Eduard Schmidt, Sandra Groeneveld

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Abstract

A core idea of bureaucratic organizations is that rule-following is a necessary precondition to pursue the public interest. However, rules may sometimes become dysfunctional, burdensome, and even interfere with public value delivery. In those situations, professionals sometimes engage in prosocial rule-breaking (PSRB), rather than rule-following, with the aim to deliver meaningful public services. This article examines leadership encouragement and psychological safety as antecedents of PSRB behavior. Data from two waves of a multi-source dataset consisting of professionals' self-reported PSRB behavior and psychological safety (n = 837 and 965 respondents) and their supervisor-reported encouragement for PSRB behavior (n = 58 and 64 respondents) is used. Findings point to a positive relationship between psychological safety and PSRB. Moreover, the study partly supports the hypothesis that leadership encouragement is associated with higher levels of PSRB, but only under conditions of high psychological safety.

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有理由的反叛领导鼓励和心理安全对专业人员亲社会破坏规则行为的影响

官僚组织的一个核心理念是，遵守规则是追求公共利益的必要前提。然而，规则有时可能会失灵、成为负担，甚至干扰公共价值的实现。在这种情况下，专业人员有时会进行亲社会规则破坏（PSRB），而不是遵守规则，目的是提供有意义的公共服务。本文探讨了领导的鼓励和心理安全感对 "亲社会破坏规则 "行为的影响。数据来自两波多源数据集，包括专业人士自我报告的 PSRB 行为和心理安全（n = 837 名和 965 名受访者），以及他们的上司报告的对 PSRB 行为的鼓励（n = 58 名和 64 名受访者）。研究结果表明，心理安全与 PSRB 之间存在正相关关系。此外，研究部分支持了领导鼓励与较高水平的 PSRB 相关联的假设，但只有在高心理安全的条件下才会出现这种情况。

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Public Administration Multiple-

CiteScore

7.80

自引率

17.10%

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期刊介绍： Public Administration is a major refereed journal with global circulation and global coverage. The journal publishes articles on public administration, public policy and public management. The journal"s reach is both inclusive and international and much of the work published is comparative in nature. A high percentage of articles are sourced from the enlarging Europe and cover all aspects of West and East European public administration.