The COVID-19 pandemic has become an important global contagion that requires workers to implement necessary behaviours to cope. Based on the conservation of resources theory, the present studies explore the effects of unneeded consumption behaviour on consumers’ recovery level and work engagement and the moderated mediating process of such relationships. Using a purchasing experiment, study 1 examined the positive effect of unneeded consumption behaviour on recovery among 100 MBA students. Using the experience sampling method, the data in study 2 were collected from 115 consumers (employees) using ten iterations of 2-day continual questionnaires (Sunday and the following Monday) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results from multilevel structural equation modelling indicate that unneeded consumption behaviour positively impacts work engagement in a moderated mediating mode. Consumer indulgence positively moderates the mediating effect of recovery level on the relationship between indulgent consumption behaviour and work engagement, while perceived consumer effectiveness negatively moderates the mediating effect of recovery level. This paper also identifies the value of transformation from consumption to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purpose: The study uses a meta-analysis method to explore the relationship between authoritarian leadership/abusive supervision and employee voice.Design/methodology/approach: A meta-analysis of 354 articles (427 effect sizes) were conducted (N = 169,127) with a structural equation model.Findings: (1) Direct effect studies showed that abusive supervision/ authoritarian leadership negatively affected employees’ promotive/prohibitive voice, among which authoritarian leadership is the explanation for promotive and prohibitive voices being stronger than that of abusive supervision. (2) Meta-analytic structural equation model shows that authoritarian leadership and abusive supervision reduce employees’ psychological safety and voice efficacy by weakening leadership–member exchange (LMX), inhibiting employee voice; they can reduce employees’ psychological safety and voice efficacy by weakening the relationship between superiors and subordinates guanxi (SSG) and reduce employee voice. Among them, authoritarian leadership has a greater effect on LMX than SSG, and abusive supervision has a greater impact on LMX than that of SSG. LMX has a greater impact on employees’ psychological safety than SSG, and SSG has a greater impact on employees’ voice efficacy than LMX.Originality/value: The research reveals the relationship between authoritarian leadership/abusive supervision and employee voice and provides a reference for improving the leader channel of voice.

The present study examines the impact of the Big Five personality on whistleblowing behaviors on Twitter. Meanwhile, two opposite moderators are explored that the weak situations of whistleblowing on Twitter can activate users' trait. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses, with the Big Five personality traits as predictors and whistleblowing behaviors on Twitter as criterion variables. First, individuals high in extraversion and conscientiousness tend to perform both the original and retweeting whistleblowing on Twitter; Individuals low in agreeableness are more likely to reveal original wrongdoing information, while those high in agreeableness tend to retweet information; individuals high in openness enjoy retweeting but not original whistleblowing. The degree of moral identity moderates the positive relationship between extraversion / agreeable / conscientiousness and (retweeting) whistleblowing on Twitter, such that the relationship is stronger as moral identity increases. The degree of politics perceptions moderates the relationship between extraversion/agreeable/conscientiousness and (retweeting) whistleblowing on Twitter, such that the relationship is weaker as politics perceptions increases. The degree of moral identity moderates the negative relationship between agreeableness and original whistleblowing on Twitter, such that the relationship is weaker as moral identity increases. The degree of politics perceptions moderates the negative relationship between agreeableness and original whistleblowing on Twitter, such that the relationship is stronger as politics perceptions increases. This paper gives a form of weak situations on whistleblowing. A pair of opposite cues may build the weak situations. Modern identity shows the positive power for potential whistleblowers to express their trait, while politics perceptions prevent them exert personality by whistleblowing. The paradox situations could give a behavioral model how observers with different traits respond to the wrongdoings in these situations.