2022 Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Based on moral licensing theory, we propose that employees who work with a leader that shows high workaholism are more likely to experience after-hours work-related ICT demands, which would be considered morally praiseworthy under a leader who spends more time on work than on other activities in life. After-hours work-related ICT demands, in turn, activate two psychological mechanism that ultimately affect work withdrawal. First, after-hours work-related ICT demands are associated with greater psychological entitlement, which increases work withdrawal. Second, after-hours work-related ICT demands are associated with greater emotional exhaustion, which increases work withdrawal. Results show that the serial mediation relationship between leader workaholism and work withdrawal was positive and significant for subordinates with high and low family identity salience, but the effect was stronger for subordinates with high family identity salience. Therefore, this study illustrates that leader workaholism and subordinates' work withdrawal are related through subordinates' after-hours work-related ICT demands and two psychological mechanism (psychological entitlement and emotional exhaustion). The strength of this serial mediation relationship varies depending on the family identity salience.