Hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communications in organization: organizational antecedents and consequences

Abstract

This study has examined the organizational antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in Najafabad public organizations. To this end, proportional questionnaires were distributed among 280 employees of organizations as a sample. To test the hypothesis, the data were fitted to structural equation models based on chi-square, normed chi-square, incremental fit indices, comparative fit index, Tucker- Lewis, and root mean squared error of approximation. In order to adjust the results, the dynamic model of relationships between antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in organization was developed and tested. The results showed that at 95 percent confidence level, climate of silent, political interpersonal communication and legal-supervisory weakness are antecedents of research's dependent variable and organizational silence and interpersonal trust are its consequences. It was indicated that legal-supervisory weakness will raise climate of silence through affecting political interpersonal communication. Also the legal-supervisory weakness will decline interpersonal trust through directly and indirectly affecting climate of silence and hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in organization.

Keywords

• Hypocritical behaviors
• interpersonal communication
• organizational antecedents
• organizational consequences