1228: Unraveling the Ramifications of Organizational Sanctions Against Moonlighting (20076)

In the recent past, organizational sanctions against moonlighting have grabbed the researchers’ attention, yet this area of research is still nascent. Our study augments the understanding of the possible ramifications of organizational sanctions against moonlighting on employees. It is based on a mixed-method approach to identify the negative stimulus (organizational sanctions against moonlighting), negative intrinsic states (feelings of organizational cynicism and feelings of organizational deviance), and coping mechanisms (knowledge-hiding intentions and intentions to quit). Since no scales are currently available to measure organizational sanctions against moonlighting, this study first develops and validates a new multi-item scale to measure organizational sanctions against moonlighting. Our conceptual model is anchored on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory (SOR). Based on the data collected in two waves (longitudinal research design) from 550 Indian IT industry employees, the results confirm the mediating influence of feelings of organizational cynicism and feelings of organizational deviance. The results also indicate Enterprise Social Media (ESM) has a positive and significant influence as a moderating variable on the association of feelings of organizational cynicism and knowledge-hiding intentions and intentions to quit, respectively.

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