To date, the unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) literature has been guided by a prosocial perspective, which argues that people engage in UPB primarily to benefit the employers with whom they identify and have a positive social exchange. According to this perspective, employees who are characteristically self-interested are less likely to engage in UPB. However, recent evidence suggests self-interest may play a larger role in motivating UPB than originally theorized. To clarify this controversy, we offer two different, but not necessarily mutually exclusive, perspectives of UPB-one in which UPB is driven primarily by prosocial motives and one in which it is driven primarily by self-interest. We tested which of these accounts of UPB was more strongly supported by comparing UPB's relationships with two nomological networks: one containing relatively prosocially motivated constructs and the other containing relatively self-interest-motivated constructs. Two of the eight hypotheses from the prosocial perspective were supported, while seven of the eight hypotheses from the self-interest perspective were supported. Additionally, the average absolute value of UPB's correlations with prosocial perspective constructs was .09, while the comparable average correlation with self-interest perspective constructs was .33. Thus, the results favored the self-interest perspective. We discuss how these findings change our theoretical understanding of UPB by acknowledging both its prosocial and self-interest motivations, and we accordingly propose a revised definition for UPB that allows for both of these motivations. We also examined more broadly the relationship between UPB and other constructs to provide a comprehensive meta-analytic overview of this literature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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自身利益在不道德的亲组织行为中的作用：法理网络荟萃分析。

迄今为止，不道德的亲组织行为（UPB）文献一直以亲社会观点为指导，认为人们参与 UPB 主要是为了使他们认同并进行积极社会交流的雇主受益。根据这个观点，具有自私特征的员工参与 UPB 的可能性较小。然而，最近的证据表明，自身利益在激励 UPB 方面可能发挥比最初理论上更大的作用。为了澄清这一争议，我们提供了两种不同但不一定相互排斥的 UPB 观点：一种是 UPB 主要由亲社会动机驱动，另一种是主要由自身利益驱动。我们通过比较 UPB 与两个法理网络的关系来测试哪一个 UPB 帐户得到更强有力的支持：一个包含相对亲社会动机的结构，另一个包含相对自利动机的结构。从亲社会角度出发的八个假设中，有两个得到支持，而从利己角度出发的八个假设中，有七个得到支持。此外，UPB 与亲社会观点构建的相关性的平均绝对值为 0.09，而与自利观点构建的可比平均相关性为 0.33。因此，结果有利于自利观点。我们讨论了这些发现如何通过承认 UPB 的亲社会动机和自利动机来改变我们对 UPB 的理论理解，并相应地提出了 UPB 的修订定义，以允许这两种动机。我们还更广泛地研究了 UPB 和其他结构之间的关系，以提供该文献的全面元分析概述。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。