Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption

By Celia Moore. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Blind forces (2014, background): “But if, as reviewed before, moral disengagement dampens moral awareness and leads individuals to overlook some types of unethical behavior (Bandura, 1990; Detert et al., 2008; Moore, 2008), then the moral disengagement itself can help sustain the ethical belief system of the organization.”
My Boss is Morally Disengaged: The Role of Ethical Leadership in Explaining the Interactive Effect of Supervisor and Employee Moral Disengagement on Employee Behaviors (2016, background): “instance, one might selectively withhold negative information about a company’s product or service in order to protect the company’s public image (Moore 2008).”
The role of moral decoupling in the causes and consequences of unethical pro-organizational behavior (2019, background): “…deny individuals’ agency, such as displacement of responsibility, the action itself is no longer immoral, as the individual in question becomes absolved of responsibility (Aquino, Reed, Thau, & Freeman, 2007; Beu & Buckley, 2004; Detert, Treviño, & Sweitzer, 2008; Moore et al., 2012; Moore, 2008).”
Implicit affect in organizations (2009, background): “Emotions such as empathy and guilt are essential signals in moral self-regulation (Detert, Treviño, & Sweitzer, 2008; Moore, 2008).”
Moral disengagement of hotel guest negative WOM: moral identity centrality, moral awareness, and anger. (2014, background): “Moreover, moral disengagement has been related to organizational corruption (Moore, 2008), workplace harassment (Claybourn, 2011), andviolations of civic duties (Caprara et al., 2009).”
Assessing civic moral disengagement: Dimensionality and construct validity (2009, neutral): “, 2008), as for example corporate transgression and organizational corruption (Bandura, Caprara, & Zsolnai, 2000; Beu & Buckley, 2004; Moore, 2008; White, Bandura, & Bero, 2009), computer hacking (Rogers, 2003; Young, Zhang, & Prybutok, 2007), reaction to war (Aquino, Reed, Thau, & Freeman, 2007), p”
13 Ethical Decision Making: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going (2008, background): “Individuals are argued to differ in their tendency to cognitively reframe their actions, their role within them, or their effects on others which impacts not only moral awareness but subsequent moral judgment (Detert, Trevino, & Sweitzer, 2008 ; Moore, 2007 ).”
An Integrative Approach to Understanding Counterproductive Work Behavior: The Roles of Stressors, Negative Emotions, and Moral Disengagement (2014, background): “…and social norms in the short time may meet some organizational goals (for instance, bribery, deception, cheating or stealing for the benefit of one’s own unit) and be justified on this premise, long term, these behaviors are costly and even threaten organizations’ survival (Moore 2008).”
Withstanding moral disengagement: Attachment security as an ethical intervention ☆ (2014, background): “…the everyday and trivial sort as well as the cruel and egregious (ranging from taking home office supplies to perpetuating genocide: Bandura, 1999; Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, & Pastorelli, 1996; Fiske, 2004; Moore, 2007; Moore, Detert, Treviño, Baker, &Mayer, 2012; Ntayi, Eyaa, &Ngoma, 2010).”
WHY EMPLOYEES DO BAD THINGS: MORAL DISENGAGEMENT AND UNETHICAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (2012, methodology): “Despite increasing interest in this construct in recent years (Aquino et al., 2007; Detert et al., 2008; Duffy et al., 2005; Moore, 2008b), research has been hampered by the lack of a consistently used, short, reliable, and clearly valid measure of the propensity to morally 4Note that in designing…”
Exploring the Impact of Job Insecurity on Employees’ Unethical Behavior (2016, background): “Second, a number of studies have examined the infl uence of various dispositional factors and moral reasoning capabilities on ethical decision-making (Detert et al., 2008 ; Moore, 2008 ; Moore et al., 2012 ).”
Corruption, South African Multinational Enterprises and Institutions in Africa (2014, background): “This links in with the literature on the rationalisation of corruption (Moore 2008; Zyglidopoulos et al. 2008) which argues that individuals attempt to justify their corrupt deeds and morally disengage by arguing that it is unavoidable or victimless.”