It’s a Match: Moralization and the Effects of Moral Foundations Congruence on Ethical and Unethical Leadership Perception

Egorov, Maxim; Kalshoven, Karianne; Verdorfer, Armin Pircher; Peus, Claudia

doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04178-9

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“…Moral foundations theory (MFT; Haidt & Joseph, 2004) is a theoretical framework of moral decision‐making. It has been applied to a range of areas of study, such as self‐identified political ideology (Clifford, 2017; Franks & Scherr, 2015; Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; Graham, Nosek, & Haidt, 2012; Haidt & Graham, 2007; Iyer, Koleva, Graham, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012; Nilsson & Erlandsson, 2015), specific sociopolitical attitudes and behaviours (Barnett, Öz, & Marsden, 2018; Dickinson, McLeod, Bloomfield, & Allred, 2016; Low & Wui, 2016), public health messaging (Christie et al., 2019), judgements of crime (Harper & Harris, 2017; Silver & Silver, 2017; Vaughan, Holleran, & Silver, 2019), and perceptions of leadership and business ethics (e.g., Egorov, Kalshoven, Pircher Verdorfer, & Peus, 2020). The theory is grounded in cultural and evolutionary psychology and anthropology and is designed to provide a universal conceptualization of the human moral landscape (Doğruyol, Alper, & Yilmaz, 2019).…”

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Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire

Harper

Rhodes

2021

British J Social Psychol

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The moral foundations theory (MFT) is an influential multifactorial model that posits how decision-making in the moral context originates from a set of six intuitive moral foundations: care, fairness, authority, loyalty, purity, and liberty. The established measure of these foundations-the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ)-has been used extensively in a range of empirical projects. However, recent analyses of its factor structure and the internal consistency of each of the foundation clusters have called its validity into question. In this paper, data from a large sample of British voters were used to re-examine the factor structure of the MFQ. As opposed to a 6-factor structure, only three meaningful clusters emerged in an exploratory principal factors analysis (Study 1; N = 428): traditionalism, compassion, and liberty. This structure was broadly confirmed in an independent sample (Study 2; N = 322). Concurrent validity was established via correlations with measures of 'social change' and 'systemic inequality' insecurities (Study 1) and voting behaviour and preferences (Study 2). Significant differences on each of the three factors of the revised MFQ (MFQ-r) were observed between the voters of different political parties (Study 1) and sides of the Brexit issue (Study 2). Implications for moral foundations theory and its measurement are discussed.Moral foundations theory (MFT; Haidt & Joseph, 2004) is a theoretical framework of moral decision-making. It has been applied to a range of areas of study, such as self-identified political ideology (

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Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire

Harper

Rhodes

2021

British J Social Psychol

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“…Whilst the authors provide limited evidence for causal links between their themes and destructive leadership, my concern is that, by focusing on them, we fail to understand how these themes play out in leadership practice. The same problem plagues our understanding of the notion of despotic leadership, which has been associated with domination, vengefulness, and selfaggrandisement (Egorov et al 2019).…”

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“…Whilst the traits that authors such as Padilla et al (2007) and Egorov et al (2019) have described might be relevant, the autoethnographic literature suggests that bad leaders use a range of strategies that are effective for their bad leadership to emerge and to continue. Whilst these strategies come in many shapes and forms, I would like to pick out a few to illustrate their effectiveness in a bad leadership context.…”

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The Value of Autoethnography in Leadership Studies, and its Pitfalls

Deckers

2020

Philosophy of Management

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The field of leadership studies frequently focuses on defining leadership traits in abstraction from the context in which leadership operates. The first aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of reasons why this might be the case. Reasons include: leadership studies being dominated by the perspectives of leaders; the lack of definition and visibility of followership studies; the status and limitations of much qualitative research; and a predominant focus on good leadership. Consequently, many people who experience the effects of leadership, and particularly those of bad leadership, do not recognise their experiences in the literature. However, recognising that followers who experience bad leadership personally increasingly engage in autoethnographic studies, my second aim is to draw out some examples of bad leadership from the autoethnographic literature, as well as their effects. In spite of its negative effects, bad leadership frequently remains unchallenged. My third aim is to explain why this might be the case, where I argue that this stems partly from the pitfalls of autoethnographic studies. I also sketch how these pitfalls might be overcome and how doing so and adopting the principle of 'accountability for reasonableness' might help to tackle bad leadership.

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“…Moral foundations theory (MFT; Haidt & Joseph, 2004) is a theoretical framework of moral decision-making. It has been applied to a range of areas of study, such as selfidentified political ideology (Clifford, 2017;Franks & Scherr, 2015;Graham et al, 2009; 2012; Haidt & Graham, 2007;Iyer et al, 2012;Nilsson & Erlandsson, 2015), specific sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors (Barnett et al, 2018;Dickinson et al, 2016;Low & Wui, 2016), public health messaging (Christie et al, 2019), judgments of crime (Harper & Harris, 2017;Silver & Silver, 2017;Vaughan et al, 2019), and perceptions of leadership and business ethics (e.g., Egorov et al, 2019). The theory is grounded in cultural and evolutionary psychology and anthropology, and is designed to provide a universal conceptualization of the human moral landscape (Doğtuyol et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reanalyzing the factor structure of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

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Rhodes²

2020

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The moral foundations theory (MFT) is an influential multifactorial model that posits how decision-making in the moral context originates from a set of six intuitive moral foundations: care, fairness, authority, loyalty, purity, and liberty. The established measure of these foundations – the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) – has been used extensively in a range of empirical projects. However, recent analyses of its factor structure and the internal consistency of the each of the foundation clusters have called its validity into question. In this paper, data from a large sample of British voters (N = 428) was used to re-examine the component structure of the MFQ. As opposed to a six-component structure, only three meaningful clusters emerged: traditionalism, compassion, and liberty. Concurrent validity was established via correlations with measures of ‘social change’ and ‘systemic inequality’ insecurities, while significant differences on each of the three components of the revised MFQ (MFQ-r) were observed between the voters of different political parties. Implications for moral foundations theory and its measurement are discussed.

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It’s a Match: Moralization and the Effects of Moral Foundations Congruence on Ethical and Unethical Leadership Perception

Cited by 33 publications

References 58 publications

Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire

Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire

The Value of Autoethnography in Leadership Studies, and its Pitfalls

Reanalyzing the factor structure of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

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