Machiavellianism, locus of control, moral identity, and ethical leadership among public service leaders in Malaysia: the moderating effect of ethical role modelling

Zainun, Nor Farah Hanis; Johari, Johanim; Adnan, Zurina

doi:10.1108/ijssp-07-2020-0289

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“…Ethical leadership has the feature of altruistic attention, that is, the leaders treat subordinates generously and amicably, care about subordinates and pay attention to their interests. Previous studies have shown that the leaders' altruistic behaviours help establish a good relationship with subordinates, and this relationship will promote employees to actively participate in innovative activities and accept risky and challenging tasks more easily (Basu and Green, 1997;Tierney et al, 1999;Tierney, 1992;Zainun et al, 2021). In addition, ethical leaders have the character of collective motivation.…”

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The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour

Liu

Tan

2022

EJIM

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PurposeThis paper aims to explore the influence of organisational justice (including distributional justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour and to analyse the role of ethical leadership in regulating the relationship between organisational justice and employees’ innovation behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThis paper explores the key factors affecting employees’ innovation behaviour from three forms of organisational justice (distributional justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) and ethical leadership. The questionnaire survey method is used to survey Chinese industrial workers. A total of 323 valid questionnaires are collected, and the model is verified by SmartPLS.FindingsThe study found that distributional justice and interactional justice in organisational justice had a significant positive influence on employees’ innovation behaviour. Ethical leadership had a significant positive influence on employees’ innovation behaviour and interactional justice. At the same time, ethical leadership has a significant regulatory effect on the relationship between interactional justice and employees’ innovation behaviour. The study also found that procedural justice had a significant positive influence on distributional justice and interactional justice.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is limited to industrial workers in Hubei, China, and the research objects need further expansion. In terms of research methods, future research will use other laboratory research methods, combining experimental environments with real-world situations, enhancing the scientific nature of research methods and increasing the credibility of research results.Practical implicationsIn management practice, organisations can take various measures to improve the interaction level of employees, improve employees’ perception of organisational distribution justice by establishing a scientific distribution system, give full play to the role of ethical leadership, implement more ethical management and stimulate employees' innovation behaviour.Originality/valueThis research theorises the relationship between distributional justice, interactional justice and employees' innovation behaviour and enriches the research system of employees' innovation behaviour. At the same time, it examines the regulatory effect of ethical leadership on the relationship between interactional justice and employees' innovation behaviour, which helps enrich the mechanism of ethical leadership affecting employees' innovation behaviour path. It clarifies the mechanism of the interaction among distributional justice, procedural justice and interactional justice and expands the research theory of organisational justice.

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The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour

Liu

Tan

2022

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“…According to the locus of control theory [ 29 ], individuals’ control of their living environment and events is the primary motivation for behavior. Individuals with a relatively high sense of control have stronger autonomy and efficiency, and a lack of control can lead to psychological problems such as depression [ 30 ]. Moreover, high self-control is one of the protective factors of life satisfaction [ 31 ] whereas low self-control can negatively affect adolescents’ psychology health and overall well-being [ 32 ].…”

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Does Self-Control Promote Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from a Longitudinal Tracking Study

Chen

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Children

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Although numerous researches have shown that self-control is a significant promoter of prosocial behavior, the mechanism behind this relationship is still unclear. According to the organism–environment interaction model and self-control model, this study researched whether life satisfaction played a mediating role between self-control and adolescents’ prosocial behavior and if friendship quality played a moderating role between self-control and prosocial behavior. This study used a longitudinal tracking research (T1&T2; and the interval between T1&T2 is 6 months). A total of 1182 Chinese middle school students participated the survey. They were between 12 and 15 years old (average age: 14.16 years old, SD = 1.29). Results indicated that life satisfaction played a mediating role between self-control and adolescents’ prosocial behavior. Furthermore, this direct relationship in the link between self-control and prosocial behavior was significant when adolescents had a good-quality friendship. These results highlight that life satisfaction plays an important role in the relationship between self-control and prosocial behavior. The present study further determined that a high-quality friendship was an important factor that amplified this direct effect.

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“…Theories on fraud, weaknesses on public procurement, emergence of online attacks such as cyber fraud and cybercrime seem to be the areas discussed in those studies (Bakri and Said, 2017;Zainun et al, 2020;Akenroye, 2013;Flynn and Harris, 2022;Owusu et al, 2021;Rustiarini et al, 2019;Azmi et al, 2017;Zaharon, 2021;Singh et al, 2021;Alam and Said, 2015;Ahmi et al, 2014;Mohammad et al, 2022;Lagazio et al, 2014)…”

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Detecting and Preventing Fraud in e-procurement of Public Sector: A Review, Synthesis and Opportunities for Future Research

Gunasegaran¹,

Basiruddin²,

Rizal³

2023

IJARBSS

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The visibility of fraud losses in the public sector has harmed public service delivery. Reduced fraud can help the country's infrastructure expand by providing resources for better healthcare and education, reducing poverty, and funding security and defence. E-Government has turned the public sector into a more dynamic and diverse platform for government activity. Therefore, organizations, especially from the public sector, need to equip themselves with effective prevention and detection methods since preventing, detecting and justifying fraud is vital to combat e-procurement fraud. The most recent technology pertinent to such preventive and detection mechanisms must also be taken into account. The paper employed a comprehensive evaluation of 46 peer-reviewed studies published between 1998 and 2022 that address various areas of public sector e-procurement fraud prevention and detection mechanisms. This study supplemented the resulting state-ofthe-art of e-procurement fraud prevention and detection mechanisms by integrating crossdisciplinary contributions from reviewing 10 papers on e-procurement, 22 papers on fraud prevention and detection mechanisms and 14 papers on fraud, procurement, cyber fraud, cybercrime and cybersecurity in order to assist in breaking down disciplinary silos and strengthening the management perspective. The review will be beneficial in understanding present fraud prevention and detection mechanisms practiced specifically in Malaysian government e-procurement. By identifying current government policies practises in preventing and detecting e-procurement fraud, government agencies may be able to assess the issues encountered and make amendments where necessary by providing new information in relation to good governance and strong internal control systems. The review as well finds that certain factors, such as e-procurement fraud prevention and detection methods implemented in the public sector, are severely underdeveloped. This study shows how the results of earlier studies executing preventive measures which contain solid control methodology like fraud detection and employers' knowledge of fraud prevention mechanisms where it actually tends to cover the research gaps which have been identified from the previous studies. In that case, it is important for directors or top management, auditors as well as the middle management to know their role in coming up with such preventive measures to overcome the e-procurement fraud cases happening at their

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Machiavellianism, locus of control, moral identity, and ethical leadership among public service leaders in Malaysia: the moderating effect of ethical role modelling

Cited by 10 publications

References 67 publications

The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour

The influence of organisational justice and ethical leadership on employees’ innovation behaviour

Does Self-Control Promote Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from a Longitudinal Tracking Study

Detecting and Preventing Fraud in e-procurement of Public Sector: A Review, Synthesis and Opportunities for Future Research

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