Abdullah Shahid

BSELL07203065
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
QUESTION:
What is Negative Reciprocity Belief?
What is Moral Disengagement?
How do they influence the relationship between abusive supervision
and knowledge hiding?
ANSWER:
Negative Reciprocity Belief:
Negative Reciprocity believes can be elaborated by a simple biblical
injunction of a life for a life and eye for an eye.
It emphasizes negative treatment in return of negative treatment. NRB
makes a person believe that it is acceptable to exercise negative treatment
when he/she is belittled or humiliated by a superior. The employee
humiliated rather than standing against the supervisor, he shifts the
negative treatment to his peers. Therefore, NRB guides individuals to
exhibit retaliatory behaviors in response to supervisory mistreatment.
Moral Disengagement:
Moral disengagement is known as the condition in which a person exhibits
negative role and continues to do so without feeling any guilt or regret of
doing wrong.
MD contains eight cognitive mechanisms such as
1. Moral justification
2. Euphemistic language
3. Advantageous comparisons
4. Displacement of responsibility
5. Diffusion of responsibility
6. Distortion of the consequences
7. Dehumanizing
8. Blaming
How do they influence the relationship between abusive supervision
and knowledge hiding?
The influence of NRB and MD on rationalized hiding is not significant yet.
But NRB and MD are directly related to abusive supervision and other two
facets of knowledge holding. They both enhance the effect of abusive
supervision which in result increase the counter productive behavior such
as evasive hiding and playing dumb.
People with Low levels of NRB will exhibit less negative behavior while
people with higher levels of NRB are more likely to engage in Knowledge
hiding behaviors such as Evasive hiding and Playing Dumb.
In case of MD when an employee is mistreated, he will generate cognitive
mechanisms that will make his moral judgment unclear which will lead to
counter productive behaviors such as knowledge hiding. He may also shift
the negative attitude towards his peers.