Look Before You Leap: Moral Intuition, Moral Foundations Congruence and (Un)Ethical Leadership

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

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2017.17214abstract

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“…Individual differences in moral foundations have been found to have effects on political identity, donation behavior, and attitudes toward public issues such as climate change and punitive policies (Dawson and Tyson, 2012;Winterich et al, 2012;Dickinson et al, 2016). Recently, management scholars started to use MFT as a framework to investigate organizational behavior, prosocial behavior, and ethical leadership (Winterich et al, 2012;Fehr et al, 2015;Egorov et al, 2017;Jancenelle and Javalgi, 2018). In sum, moral foundations could take a significant role in predicting motives toward social behavior and collective action.…”

Section: Moral Foundation Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation

2020

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Morality constructs the relationship between the self and others, providing a sense of appropriateness that facilitates and coordinates social behaviors. We start from Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), and argue that multiple moral domains can shape the meaning of public service and engender Public Service Motivation (PSM). From the lens of cognitive science, we develop a causal map for PSM by understanding the social cognition process underlying PSM, focusing on five innate moralities as the potential antecedents of PSM: Care, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, and Sanctity. Extending moral domains beyond compassion and justice can provide a disaggregated view of PSM, which may help to identify institutional and cultural variation in the meaning of PSM. We discuss the theoretical implications of synthesizing MFT and PSM literatures, and provide directions for future research that could improve our understanding of PSM.

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