Religiosity and Ethical Behavior in Organizations: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

By Gary R. Weaver, Bradley R. Agle. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Attitude towards Business Ethics: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Gender and Education Levels (2010, background): “Furthermore, religiosity is also known to have an influence on both human behavior and attitudes (Weaver & Agle, 2002).”
The role of construction, intuition, and justification in responding to ethical issues at work: The sensemaking-intuition model (2007, methodology): “Weaver and Agle (2002) note that rationalist approaches (particularly Rest [1986]) may be influenced by two important nonrationalist processes.”
Does Religion Mitigate Tunneling? Evidence from Chinese Buddhism (2014, background): “In fact, religion provides specific ethical guidelines, emphasizes the importance of ethical behavior, and establishes ‘‘common knowledge’’ for judging whether behavior is ethical (McGuire et al. 2012; Weaver and Agle 2002).”
On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review (2010, background): “To date, limited empirical research has been generated on the topic of spirituality and work (Weaver & Agle, 2002), with yet fewer studies explicitly addressing the role of spirituality in perceptions of the meaning of work.”
The Impact of Religion on Financial Reporting Irregularities (2012, positive): “Weaver and Agle (2002) discuss a theoretical framework for understanding the influence”
The Neglected Ethical and Spiritual Motivations in the Workplace (2015, background): “…undeniable that the role of spirituality in the workplace has widely gained the interest of scholars and practitioners over the last few decades (Cavanagh and Bandsuch 2002; Gotsis and Kortezi 2008; Kahn and Sheikh 2012; Weaver and Agle 2002), but it is still missing in most motivation taxonomies.”
(Un)Ethical Behavior and Performance Appraisal: The Role of Affect, Support, and Organizational Justice (2013, background): “In the context of our study, namely policing, perceived injustice during a performance appraisal and perceived lack of support by a supervisor is likely judged against the general moral identity (Aquino and Reed 2002; Weaver and Agle 2002) of the police profession.”
The impact of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control on managers’ intentions to behave ethically (2018, background): “The perceived behavioural control is also a product of the extent of religiosity (Weaver & Agle, 2002).”
Making Sense of Whistle-Blowing's Antecedents: Learning from Research on Identity and Ethics Programs (2009, background): “In a similar line of thought, Weaver and Agle (2002) theorized how individuals’ religious identities and associated ethical tendencies compete with organizationally defi ned identities to differentially affect ethical behavior, thereby suggesting that a key factor in ethical decision-making is the…”
Religion and Corporate (Mis)Behavior (2009, background): “4 Fore recent work and reviews of the literature, see for example Longenecker, McKinney, and Moore (2004), Vitell, Paolillo, and Singh (2005), Weaver & Agle (2002).”