When do creative employees become unethical for their organization?

Drawing on social cognitive theory of moral conduct, we hypothesize that creative personality and performance pressure jointly lead to unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) through the mediation of moral justification. We further hypothesize that moral identity weakens these downsides. Results from a sample of employees of two high-tech companies (Study 1) showed that creative employees under higher performance pressure were more likely to...