Do Good Workplace Relationships Encourage Employee Whistle-Blowing?. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kyu Wang, Tae; Fu, Kai-Jo; Yang, Kaifeng
• Is Part Of: Public performance & management review. Volume 41:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 768
• Page End: 789
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Interpersonal relationship -- person-environment fit -- whistle-blowing intention; Civil service -- Labor productivity -- Periodicals; Civil service -- Labor productivity -- United States -- Periodicals; Government productivity -- Periodicals; Government productivity -- United States -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Periodicals; Public administration -- United States -- Periodicals; Civil service -- Labor productivity; Government productivity; Public administration; United States; Periodicals; 351.05
• DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2018.1464935
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1530-9576

Abstract

Abstract: The literature contains mixed arguments and evidence regarding how employee willingness to blow the whistle is affected by interpersonal relationships in organizations. This article examines whether there is a curvilinear relationship between interpersonal relationships and whistle-blowing intentions, by operationalizing interpersonal relationships with the person-group fit and person-supervisor fit variables. By using the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data, this article finds that the curvilinear relationship does exist: when the person-group fit and person-supervisor fit become very high, the intention to blow the whistle dwindles. As a result, this article argues that the impacts of workplace relationships on whistle-blowing intention would not be simply linear, but curvilinear.