TY - JOUR T1 - The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees' Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism. AU - Jiang,Hongyan, AU - Chen,Yang, AU - Sun,Peizhen, AU - Yang,Jun, Y1 - 2017/05/09/ PY - 2016/10/23/received PY - 2017/04/24/accepted PY - 2017/5/25/entrez PY - 2017/5/26/pubmed PY - 2017/5/26/medline KW - authoritarian leadership KW - deviant workplace behaviors KW - mediating effects KW - organizational cynicism KW - psychological contract violation SP - 732 EP - 732 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 8 N2 - This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models. The results showed that the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' DWB was mediated by organizational cynicism. Moreover, this relationship was also sequentially mediated by psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. This research unveiled psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism as underlying mechanism that explained the link between authoritarian leadership and employees' DWB. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28536550/The_Relationship_between_Authoritarian_Leadership_and_Employees'_Deviant_Workplace_Behaviors:_The_Mediating_Effects_of_Psychological_Contract_Violation_and_Organizational_Cynicism_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -