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How Do Entrepreneurs Treat Probationary Employees: The Moderating Roles of Core Job Characteristics

Recent high-profile ethical scandals in startup organizations make people wonder if entrepreneurship may cultivate a work environment that emphasize less on ethics. Tackling the issue, we investigated how entrepreneurship can affect treatment of probationary employees, the most vulnerable yet under-studied group of workers. This study revisits a research gap about the linkage between firm strategy and firm ethics by examining how entrepreneurship is related to workplace incivility. Our results revealed a positive effect of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on ethical climate, which challenges the notion that EO may lead to a negative ethical climate as it is widely alleged. Ethical climate, in turn, was found to be related to reduced incivility experienced by probationary employees. Core job characteristics (feedback and meaning of work) served as boundary conditions for the effect of EO on incivility through ethical climate, such that this mechanism only held at the presence of those job characteristics.