Whistleblowing as Planned Behavior – A Survey of South Korean Police Officers

By Heungsik Park, John Blenkinsopp. 2009

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This article explores the relevance of the Theory of Planned Behavior to whistleblowing research, and considers whether its widely tested validity as a model of the link between attitudes, intention, and behavior might make it an appropriate candidate for a general theory to account for whistleblowing. This proposition is developed through an empirical test of the theory’s predictive validity for whistleblowing intentions. Using a sample of 296 Korean police officers, the analysis showed that attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control all had significantly positive main effects on internal whistleblowing intentions, but for external whistleblowing intentions only subjective norm was significant. The implications of these findings for applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to whistleblowing research are discussed.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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Ethical Leadership and Internal Whistleblowing: A Mediated Moderation Model (2017, background): “When a morally courageous person observes wrongdoing which violates certain moral standards, she/he will consider and evaluate possible retaliation or adverse impacts in light of the political circumstances at play (Park and Blenkinsopp 2009).”
Whistleblowing Intentions Among Public Accountants in Indonesia: Testing for the Moderation Effects (2016, methodology): “Attitudes toward Whistleblowing The ATW constructs were measured using a five-item questionnaire adopted from Park and Blenkinsopp (2009).”
Constructive Deviance in Organizations (2013, background): “For example, Park and Blenkinsopp (2009) demonstrated that a belief that actions will be efficacious was positively related to internal whistle-blowing intentions.”
Making Sense of Whistle-Blowing's Antecedents: Learning from Research on Identity and Ethics Programs (2009, background): “(3) The level of harassers was negatively and directly related to whistle-blowing, but it was also indirectly and positively related to whistle-blowing, mediated by number of types of nonfelonious sexual harassment Data from 1952 female respondents who had experienced sexual harassment during the pa”
The moderating effect of religiosity on ethical behavioural intentions: An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour to Pakistani bank employees (2017, background): “Thus we surmise that both role modelling and company policies act as triggers of a favourable attitude to making ethical decisions (Park and Blenkinsopp, 2009).”
THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS ON LOWER-LEVEL CIVIL SERVANTS’ WHISTLE-BLOWING INTENTION IN INDONESIA (2013, methodology): “Both individual and situational factors have been successful in predicting whistle-blowing intentions in different contexts, for example, among police officers in South Korea (Park & Blenkinsopp, 2009), top management in multinational companies (Schultz et al., 1993), and public-sector employees in ”
The impact of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control on managers’ intentions to behave ethically (2018, background): “Park and Blenkinsopp (2009) investigated whistle blowing among Korean police officers using TPB, finding that internal whistle blowing is predicted by all TPB elements and external whistle blowing is predicted by only subjective norms.”