Abstract
We develop and test a multi-level interactive model of the relationships among self-monitoring, co-workers' formal and informal status, and justice-related information flow in a scenario-based field study of 4,011 unique relationships collected from 84 respondents. We predict that individuals high in self-monitoring, because they attend more carefully to social cues and have higher levels of expressive control, will be more likely than low self-monitors to intend to seek, accept, and provide justice-related information as a function of their co-workers' formal status, the size of their co-workers' networks, and the advantageousness of their co-workers' position in the networks (betweenness centrality). This cross-level interaction hypothesis receives strong support in terms of co-workers' network size, limited support in terms of co-workers' betweenness centrality, and no support in terms of co-workers' formal status. We address the implications of these findings for the literature on self-monitoring, social construction of organizational justice, and social networks, as well as the strengths and limitations of our approach.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 405-430 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology |
Volume | 82 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management