Understanding Cognitive Pathways of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviour

Abstract

In this chapter, the author intends to draw your attention on to the current workplace scenario, focusing of the population growth and increasing unemployability. As a result, a phenomenon known as unethical pro-organizational behaviour (UPB) is born, which has the ability to hamper any organization's sustainability. The author tries to explain the underlying causes of the same in terms of organizational factors as well as psycho-social factors and then moves on to explain UPB in terms of various socio-cognitive theories in order to gain a holistic understanding of human cognition behind this phenomenon with the help of various empirically proven studies and experiments in the past. Based on the findings and interpretations, a representational model of the antecedents and socio-cognitive theories causing UPB has been formulated. The chapter ends with discussing the importance of incorporating various interventions, which will help organizations to mitigate the profound effect of UPB on employee well-being and organizational sustainability.