Consumer Ethics Scale--Adapted

Greenbaum, Rebecca L.; Quade, Matthew J.; Mawritz, Mary B.; Kim, Joongseo; Crosby, Durand

doi:10.1037/t36580-000

Cited by 1 publication

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Third, our research focused on the level of morality with individual differences and explored the boundary conditions of the effect of guilt on employee psychological states and behavior and the indirect effect of UPB on pro-environmental behavior through guilt by incorporating the moderator of moral identity. Some previous studies have shown that the level of moral identity would influence individuals' subsequent mental states and behavioral decisions when they were confronted with unethical events (Greenbaum et al, 2014;Joosten et al, 2014). Our study obtained a consistent conclusion that moral identity can effectively moderate the compensatory behavior of individuals.…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Second, in terms of the unethical nature of UPB, this behavior may harm external stakeholders and have a negative impact on the reputation of the organization (Umphress et al, 2010), which can bring great mental stress and psychological resource consumption to the actors. Moreover, when individuals discover that their work behavior violates the codes of ethics, they would have feelings of guilt and unease, which cause them deplete large amounts of cognitive and emotional resources, resulting in a significant reduction in resources available for other roles and leading to role conflict (Greenbaum et al, 2014).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So, moral identity is considered a personal trait, which has been regarded as a moderating variable to describe individual differences (Aquino and Reed, 2002;Shao et al, 2008). Some research studies show that when individuals recall and ruminate the entire process of unethical events, the individuals' different moral identity standards will directly affect the level of psychological resource losses and subsequent behavioral decision-making (Greenbaum et al, 2014;Joosten et al, 2014). Therefore, this study proposes using moral identity as a moderating variable to explore its contingency effect on individual cognitive paths.…”

Section: The Moderator Role Of Moral Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Research on the consequences of employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior: The moderating role of moral identity

Zhao

2022

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

IntroductionIn recent years, employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) has become a social hot issue. This behavior benefits their organization or colleagues while violating core social ethics. Numerous studies have predominately focused on identifying the antecedents and formation mechanisms of UPB. However, only a few studies have focused on the effects and outcomes of UPB. Moreover, guilt triggered by unethical behaviors can motivate individuals to adopt pro-social behaviors, but studies on the effects of UPB on pro-social behavior of actors are rather limited. Therefore, this study explores the underlying relationship between employees’ UPB and their own pro-environmental behavior based on the conservation of resources theory.MethodsThrough collecting data (N = 319) from a Chinese online survey company in different time intervals, the theoretical model was tested by the application of Amos 27.0 and SPSS 25.0 for analysis of the data. The CFA, descriptive analysis, hierarchical regression were illustrated in the article.ResultsThis study demonstrated that, through emotions of guilt, employees’ UPB is negatively correlated with their own environmental protection act. While this relationship is being examined, moral identity plays this mediating role, which can moderate the indirect relationship between employees’ UPB and their environmental behavior through guilt.DiscussionThe purpose of the research was to identify the influence mechanisms that contribute to employees’ pro-organizational but unethical behavior. With guilt serving as the mediating variable and moral identity serving as the moderating variable, a research model built on the principle of the conservation of resources theory was constructed. This research examines the impact mechanism and boundary conditions of UPB on individual pro-environmental behaviors from the perspective of employees. This paper discusses the theoretical and practical implications of the report’s results.

show abstract

Section: Theoretical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%