Being Out of the Loop: Workplace Deviance as a Mediator of the Impact of Impression Management on Workplace Exclusion

This study investigates the extending negative effects of impression management (IM) on organizational outcomes in nursing context. Specifically, this aims to understand impact IM workplace exclusion through deviance. The data came from 277 head nurses (nurses leadership positions) elderly care homes Belgium. Structured paper-and-pencil questionnaires were administered site respondents’ workplaces. In findings current research, is positively related and relationship mediated by Although, initially, performed actors as a natural behavior maintain their image, at some point, can become fatigued with maintaining image. Under ego depletion theory, exhausted will be highly experienced deviance or bad performance. Furthermore, consistent social information processing theory correlation between employees’ poor performance exclusion, who fail deliver good following like-based rewards may subject workplace.