Whistleblowing in Organizations: An Examination of Correlates of Whistleblowing Intentions, Actions, and Retaliation

By Jessica Mesmer-Magnus, C. Viswesvaran. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The Influence of Subjective Norms on Whistle-Blowing: A Cross-Cultural Investigation (2013, background): “Because whistle-blowing is an infrequent behavior and seldom in view, researchers are often limited to examining behavioral intentions rather than actual whistle-blowing behavior (Mesmer-Magnus and Viswesvaran 2005; Patel 2003).”
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “For example, Mesmer-Magnus and Viswesvaran (2005) suggest that employees with more power (French & Raven, 1959) or idiosyncrasy credits (Hollander, 1958) have greater latitude to act outside group or organizational norms.”
Silenced by fear:: The nature, sources, and consequences of fear at work (2009, background): “…speaking up to one’s current boss is described primarily as a function of the boss’s behavior or style (Ashford et al., 1998; Milliken et al., 2003; Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005), the current organization’s structural features (e.g., centralized decision-making, lack of formal input…”
Whistleblowing as Planned Behavior – A Survey of South Korean Police Officers (2009, background): “…wrongdoing by reporting it in the organization, and concern about retaliation due to the reporting, with the latter being considered one of the most important control factors that discourage employees from reporting illegitimate activities (Miceli & Near, 1992; Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005).”
THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS ON LOWER-LEVEL CIVIL SERVANTS’ WHISTLE-BLOWING INTENTION IN INDONESIA (2013, background): “In the government, lower-level civil servants, as employees, are potential users of a whistle-blowing system because they are actively involved in the operational and technical activities of govern- ment (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005).”
Destructive Leadership (2013, background): “…goals and actions than anyone else in the organization. however, evidence exists that followers are reluctant to report DL due to the power difference between themselves and the leader (Knapp et al., 1997) and the fear of retaliation from their leader (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005).”
Moral Symbols: A Necklace of Garlic against Unethical Requests (2017, background): “Employees are often penalized for reporting or speaking up about unethical conduct (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005).”
Making Sense of Whistle-Blowing's Antecedents: Learning from Research on Identity and Ethics Programs (2009, background): “These characteristics include the type of wrongdoing and the perceived severity of the wrongdoing (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005; Near & Miceli, 1996).”
Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical Leadership, and Trust Propensity: A Multi-Experience Model of Perceived Ethical Climate (2015, background): “We controlled for two variables that are known to be associated with ethical leadership and/or unethical climate perceptions (Gephart et al. 2008; Mesmer-Magnus and Viswesvaran 2005).”
Predicting employee reactions to perceived organizational wrongdoing: Demoralization, justice, proactive personality, and whistle-blowing (2012, background): “…tested predictors of self-reports of actual whistle-blowing and hypothetical (i.e. scenario) whistle-blowing intentions showed otherwise; evidence of wrongdoing was weakly, positively related only to self-reported whistle-blowing, and unrelated to intentions (Mesmer-Magnus and Viswesvaran, 2005).”
When Voice Matters (2015, background): “The combined effect across these three samples was a nonsignificant correlation of –.07 (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005) between blowing the whistle and the perception of its effectiveness in stopping the wrongdoing.”
Silence is golden? Characteristics and experiences of self-reported whistleblowers (2011, methodology): “Blowing the whistle on serious types of wrongdoing, particularly through external channels, has been found to have severe negative consequences for the whistleblower (Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005; Miceli & Near, 1989; Near, Rehg, van Scotter, & Miceli, 2004; Rothschild, 2008).”