Too much self‐promotion! How self‐promotion climate relates to employees' supervisor‐focused self‐promotion effectiveness and their work group's performance

Abstract

Self-promotion has largely been researched from an individual perspective. It is thus unclear if this behavior is functional or dysfunctional within a broader social context. The present study offers a contribution in this regard by examining self-promotion within work groups. In particular, we hypothesized that work group self-promotion climate—referring to the shared perception of the occurrence of self-promotion in the work group—moderates the relationships between individuals' supervisor-focused self-promotion and supervisor ratin Show more