Understanding unethical behavior by unraveling ethical culture

By M. Kaptein. 2011

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Blind forces (2014, background): “15; Kelman, 1973). Similarly, C. Moore’s (2008) argument that morally disengaged rationales and explanations can become the taken-for-granted assumptions that facilitate and perpetuate corrupt practices suggests there can be a symbiotic relationship between moral disengagement and an organization’s ”
From Inaction to External Whistleblowing: The Influence of the Ethical Culture of Organizations on Employee Responses to Observed Wrongdoing (2009, neutral): “The quality of ethical culture is negatively related to the frequency of wrongdoing (Kaptein, 2010), but as this study shows, a healthy ethical culture generally results in a greater willingness to report wrongdoing.”
Corruption in organizations: Ethical climate and individual motives (2018, background): “…perceive their organizational 6 Ethical culture is defined as “the perception about the conditions that are in place in the organization to comply or not comply with what constitutes unethical and ethical behavior”, e.g., role-modeling of managers, and rewards and punishment (Kaptein 2011, p. 846).”
Ethical Climates in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2017, background): “ethical or unethical behavior in the workplace), and refer to ethical features of the organizational environment, researchers have only recently begun to pay attention to differentiating the two constructs (Kaptein, 2011; Kish-Gephart, Harrison, & Trevino, 2010).”
The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study (2014, methodology): “Feasibility includes the actual resources available for ethical actions: sufficient time, financial resources, equipment, and information, and also the personal authority to act according to norms and values without being under pressure to break the rules (Kaptein 2008, 2011b).”