The tone at the top: a trickle-down model of how manager anger relates to employee moral behaviour

dc.coverageDOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2020.1804876
dc.creatorStollberger, Jakob
dc.creatorJosé Bosch, Maria
dc.creatorLas Heras, Mireia
dc.creatorRofcanin, Yasin
dc.creatorDaher, Pascale
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-05T21:12:43Z
dc.date.available2026-01-05T21:12:43Z
dc.description<p>The question of how leaders’ expressions of anger influence employees have been the subject of considerable scholarly debate. So far, however, research on the consequences of angry leadership has predominantly focused on the effects of supervisor expressions of anger, neglecting the potential influence of higher-level managerial anger. In this study, we integrate the emotions as social information theory with the adapted elaboration likelihood model to examine how manager anger trickles down across organizational hierarchical levels (i.e., managers, supervisors, and employees) to affect employee moral behaviour. Results of a multi-source field study conducted in Chile demonstrate that perceptions of manager moral behaviour and supervisor servant leadership serially mediate a negative relationship between manager anger and employee moral behaviour. Furthermore, counter to our predictions, trait negative affectivity of supervisors did not moderate the trickle-down relation of manager anger on employee moral behaviour. Our research elucidates the process by which manager anger can “set the tone” in an organization and trickle down across hierarchical levels to predict the moral behaviour of employees.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/3657c41d-d7c4-4704-92f9-a0a8a3cc3b29
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uandes.cl/handle/uandes/65356
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.29 (2020) nr.6 p.907-921
dc.subjectAnger
dc.subjectmoral behaviour
dc.subjectmultilevel structural equation modelling
dc.subjectservant leadership
dc.subjecttrickle-down model
dc.titleThe tone at the top: a trickle-down model of how manager anger relates to employee moral behavioureng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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