The Effect Of Coworkers’ Idiosyncratic Deals On Employees’ Silence Behavior

Idiosyncratic deals have been defined as “personalized agreements of a nonstandard nature negotiated between individual employees and their employers regarding terms that benefit each party.” Most of the existing studies discuss the positive effects of i-deals from employees and employers.However,Rousseau believes that i-deals is about three parties: employees with i-deals(i-dealers),employers and coworkers.The key to solving the long-standing management dilemma is win-win-win.Therefore,research from the perspective of coworkers’ idiosyncratic deals is particularly important.From the perspective of emotional path,this paper discusses the influence of coworkers’ i-deals on employees,as well as the internal mediating and boundary functions.Two studies were carried out in this paper.Firstly,the revision of i-deals from the perspective of colleagues.223 valid questionnaires were collected effectively.The coworkers’ i-deals scale was revised through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis.Secondly,this paper discusses the influence of coworkers’ i-deals on silence behavior,the mediating effect of negative emotion and the moderating effect of equity sensitivity.222 valid questionnaires were collected effectively.SPSS and LISREL software were used for data processing and the following conclusions were drawn.Firstly,the coworkers’ i-deals have a positive impact on the silence behavior of employees.The more coworkers’ i-deals there are,the more silence behaviors there are;Secondly,negative emotions play a mediating role between the coworkers’ i-deals and the silence behavior of employees.Thirdly,equity sensitivity plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between the coworkers’ i-deals and negative emotions.Specifically,the more coworkers’ financial incentives i-deals employees with high equity sensitivity faced,the more negative emotions they experienced.Fourthly,equity sensitivity plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between coworkers’ i-deals and silence behavior.Specifically,the more coworkers’ financial incentives i-deals employees with high equity sensitivity faced,the more silence behavior they produced.Fifthly,equity sensitivity positively moderates the indirect effect of the coworkers’ financial incentives i-deals on the silence behavior through negative emotions.Specifically,the higher the equity sensitivity,the stronger the indirect effect.