Drawing from behavioral integrity research, we focus on the morality of ideological PC by examining perceptions of undeserved moral benefits and organizational hypocrisy. Using three separate data sets collected through surveys and experiments from the USA and S. Korea, the findings of the studies showed that ideological PC breach was related with their increased turnover intentions, mediated through employee perceptions of undeserved moral benefits and organizational hypocrisy. Furthermore, the positive relation between ideological PC breach and perceptions of organizational hypocrisy was stronger for employees with relational PC fulfillment compared to their counterparts with relational PC breach. The paper highlights the importance of considering the morality of ideological PC as it advances our understanding of why ideological PC breach evokes negative employee responses and how it interacts with relational PC.
