How to Achieve Sustainable Development? The Effect of Guanxi human Resource Management Practices on Unethical Behavior

This study aims to provide new insights into the relationship between guanxi human resource management (HRM) practices and employees' moral disengagement.Drawing from the social cognitive theory of morality, we develop and test a model which argues that moral disengagement serves as the mechanism that encourage or inhibit employees' unethical behavior, and the mediation process occur depends on moral identity.We used a three timelagged sample from 243 employees to test our hypotheses.The results show that moral disengagement positively mediates the influence of guanxi HRM practices on employees' unethical behavior and that moral identity negatively and significantly moderates the influence of guanxi HRM practices on employees' unethical behavior.Theoretical and practical implications of our model are discussed.