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On the Effects of Ethical Climate(s) on Employees’ Behavior: A Social Identity Approach

The spread and publicity given to questionable practices in the corporate world during the last two decades have fostered an increasing interest about the importance of ethical work for organizations, practitioners, scholars and, last but not least, the wider public. Relying on the Social Identity A...

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Autores principales: Pagliaro, Stefano, Lo Presti, Alessandro, Barattucci, Massimiliano, Giannella, Valeria A., Barreto, Manuela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29951022
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00960
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author Pagliaro, Stefano
Lo Presti, Alessandro
Barattucci, Massimiliano
Giannella, Valeria A.
Barreto, Manuela
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description The spread and publicity given to questionable practices in the corporate world during the last two decades have fostered an increasing interest about the importance of ethical work for organizations, practitioners, scholars and, last but not least, the wider public. Relying on the Social Identity Approach, we suggest that the effects of different ethical climates on employee behaviors are driven by affective identification with the organization and, in parallel, by cognitive moral (dis)engagement. We compared the effects of two particular ethical climates derived from the literature: An ethical organizational climate of self-interest, and an ethical organizational climate of friendship. Three hundred seventy-six workers completed measures of Ethical Climate, Organizational Identification, Moral Disengagement, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs), and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs). Structural equation modeling confirmed that the two ethical climates considered were independently related to organizational identification and moral disengagement. These, in turn, mediated the effects of ethical climates on OCBs and CWBs. We discuss results in light of the social identity approach, and present some practical implications of our findings.
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spelling pubmed-60085292018-06-27 On the Effects of Ethical Climate(s) on Employees’ Behavior: A Social Identity Approach Pagliaro, Stefano Lo Presti, Alessandro Barattucci, Massimiliano Giannella, Valeria A. Barreto, Manuela Front Psychol Psychology The spread and publicity given to questionable practices in the corporate world during the last two decades have fostered an increasing interest about the importance of ethical work for organizations, practitioners, scholars and, last but not least, the wider public. Relying on the Social Identity Approach, we suggest that the effects of different ethical climates on employee behaviors are driven by affective identification with the organization and, in parallel, by cognitive moral (dis)engagement. We compared the effects of two particular ethical climates derived from the literature: An ethical organizational climate of self-interest, and an ethical organizational climate of friendship. Three hundred seventy-six workers completed measures of Ethical Climate, Organizational Identification, Moral Disengagement, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs), and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs). Structural equation modeling confirmed that the two ethical climates considered were independently related to organizational identification and moral disengagement. These, in turn, mediated the effects of ethical climates on OCBs and CWBs. We discuss results in light of the social identity approach, and present some practical implications of our findings. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6008529/ /pubmed/29951022 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00960 Text en Copyright © 2018 Pagliaro, Lo Presti, Barattucci, Giannella and Barreto. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Giannella, Valeria A.
Barreto, Manuela
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29951022
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