To Avenge or Not to Avenge? Exploring the Interactive Effects of Moral Identity and the Negative Reciprocity Norm

The Joint Effects of Justice Climate, Group Moral Identity, and Corporate Social Responsibility on the Prosocial and Deviant Behaviors of Groups

“…One line of research suggests that even when treated unfairly, groups high in moral identity will engage in less deviant behaviors when facing injustice (e.g., Skarlicki et al 2008) compared to groups lower in moral identity, who are thought to be more sensitive to contextual cues due to lowered moral self-regulation (Skarlicki and Rupp 2010). Alternatively, as groups higher in moral identity might have a greater concern for justicerelated issues, they might engage in retribution to even out the scales of justice, so to speak (e.g., Barclay et al 2014).…”

“…Extant empirical research, such as the work by Skarlicki and colleagues (2008), has provided some support for this. Other research has suggested that moral identity coupled with other characteristics, such as negative reciprocity norm endorsement (i.e., when revenge is viewed as appropriate and even moral when in response to wrongdoing; Barclay et al 2014), is more likely to result in retribution. Relatedly, Rupp (2003) showed that people who were higher in moral maturity were more likely to punish wrongdoing than those lower in moral maturity.…”

Effect of employee incivility on customer retaliation through psychological contract breach: The moderating role of moral identity

“…Such variation could be caused by individual differences such as http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2015.07.011 0278-4319/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. their self-importance of moral identity (Barclay et al, 2014), which is an essential self-regulatory mechanism that guides individuals' behavioral responses to their social environment, particularly in the context of interpersonal mistreatment (Aquino and Reed, 2002). As moral identity may be more chronically accessible and active for some than others, individuals may interpret moral incidents and react differently (Aquino et al, 2011).…”

“…However, according to the social identity literature, moral identity, as a part of one's social self-schema, guides an individual's moral behaviors to be consistent with his/her self-concepts (Aquino and Reed, 2002;Blasi, 1984;Damon and Hart, 1992). Individuals high in moral identity, as a part of one's social self-schema, generally exhibit fewer tendencies to take retaliatory actions as a result of unfair treatment and negative behaviors with retaliation (Barclay et al, 2014;Skarlicki et al, 2008). However, retaliation 1 may not be necessarily immoral (Bies and Tripp, 1996;Folger and Skarlicki, 1998).…”

Norma pessoal de reciprocidade: evidências de validade e precisão de uma medida

“…Com relação à reciprocidade negativa, aqueles que endossam essa norma agem de modo a, percebendo tratamento desconsiderado de alguém, considerar aceitável proceder à retaliação (Restubog, Garcia, Wang, & Cheng, 2010). Essa é especialmente relevante quando for violada a norma sobre como as pessoas devem ser tratadas, de modo que os indivíduos julgam que a vingança é justificada em razão da violação de normas morais, reafirmando padrões de condutas consideradas socialmente adequadas (Barclay, Whiteside, & Aquino, 2014).…”