Mechanisms of moral disengagement.

By A. Bandura. 2011

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “Membership in a terrorist group may expose individuals to a unique social reality that condones violence, remove the anticipatory anxiety and guilt restraining one from harming innocents (Bandura, 1990/1998), and stemming from societal norms that prohibit such behaviors.”
Leader Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior and Employee Unethical Conduct: Social Learning of Moral Disengagement as a Behavioral Principle (2020, background): “One behavioral principle that may be exemplified by leader UPB is moral disengagement, or various explanations adopted by individuals to disengage moral self-sanctions from their unethical behaviors (Bandura, 1990a, 1990b).”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, background): “Bandura calls the psychological passing of moral responsibility up through the chain of command “displacement of responsibility” (Bandura, 1990, 1999).”
Self-regulation and moral awareness among entrepreneurs (2009, background): “In contrast, weaker self-efficacy increases a person's vulnerability to social pressures for moral or ethical disengagement (Bandura et al., 1996).”
WHY EMPLOYEES DO BAD THINGS: MORAL DISENGAGEMENT AND UNETHICAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (2012, methodology): “As noted earlier, our focus is on the dispositional propensity of individuals to morally disengage (Bandura, 1990a, 1990b).”