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The business amorality belief and workplace unethical behavior
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The business amorality belief and workplace unethical behavior
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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Research on amorality draws from various disciplines. However, conceptions of amorality in the literature are diverse and ambiguous. My dissertation delves into the concept of amorality by introducing an unequivocal definition of the business amorality belief (BAB). BAB is defined as the extent to which individuals believe that morality is irrelevant and inapplicable in the business world. Drawing on social cognitive theory (SCT), my dissertation seeks to understand the effect of BAB on two broad categories of workplace unethical behavior: unethical pro-self behavior (UPSB) and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPOB). I hypothesize that employees’ BAB is positively related their UPSB and UPOB. I further hypothesize that a leader’s BAB and team level unethical behaviors (UPSB and UPOB) each further strengthens the above relationships. Three studies have been conducted to develop and validate the BAB scale and test the hypotheses with data collected from multiple samples from a variety of universities and companies in China. In Study 1, I developed a valid and reliable measure of individuals’ BAB using undergraduate student and part-time MBA student samples. A series of tests demonstrated sufficient evidence of the reliability, discriminant validity, and convergent validity of the newly developed measure. In Study 2, with time-lagged data collected from part-time MBA students, I examined the nomological network of BAB and found that BAB had an incremental effect on UPSB and UPOB than other related variables in workplace unethical behavior research. In Study 3, I employed hierarchical linear modeling to test the hypotheses with time-lagged data collected from Chinese companies in different industries including technology, pharmaceuticals, electric maintenance, telecommunications, and business consulting. The results showed that employees’ BAB was positively related to both UPSB and UPOB, replicating the findings in Study 2. Furthermore, leaders’ BAB strengthens the effect of employees’ BAB on UPOB but not UPSB. Lastly, team level unethical behavior strengthens the effect of employees’ BAB UPSB but not UPOB. Theoretical contributions, managerial implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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by Wen Zhang
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2020.
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