ABSTRACT
This study examines the relations between democratic, autocratic, and laissez-faire leadership styles and unethical prosocial organizational behaviors (UPB). The research was designed in accordance with the causal-comparative method. At the research model, affective commitment is described as a mediating variable; normative commitment, continuous commitment, and performance bonus are described as the moderator variables. The research data was collected from the hotel employees (n=362) who have direct contact with customers. Analyzes were made with SmartPLS 3.9. According to the results, no relations were found between democratic, autocratic, and laissez-faire leadership styles and UPB. No significant effect of affective commitment, which is defined as the mediating variable, on the relationship between leadership style and UPB was found. The normative commitment, as an independent variable, was found to be positively correlated with UPB at a significance level of 0.05. However, as a moderator variable, it was not found to have the moderating effect on the relationship between leadership styles and UPB. No significant relations of continuance commitment neither as an independent variable nor as a moderator variable were found. On the other hand, the bonus system, which is another moderator variable, was found to generate a difference at 0.00 significance level between the employees who receive bonuses and those who do not receive any bonuses in terms of the relationship between normative commitment and UPB.