Supervisor Bottom-Line Mentality, Instrumentalism Ethical Climate and Employee’s Unethical Behavior: The Moderate Effect of Moral Identity

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10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.180How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Supervisor Bottom-line Mentality, Instrumentalism Ethical Climate, Unethical Behavior, Moral Identity

Abstract

Based on social information processing theory, this study proved that supervisor bottom-line mentality positively influenced unethical behavior through instrumentalism ethical climate. Also, the moderating role of moral identity was examined. The study selected 319 pairs of sample data. We explored the relationship between the supervisor bottom-line mentality and employees’ unethical behavior. The research results show that supervisor bottom-line mentality has a significant positive relationship with instrumentalism ethical climate (Hypothesis 1). Instrumentalism ethical climate-mediated the relationship between leadership bottom-line mentality and unethical behavior (Hypothesis 2). Moral identity moderated the relationship between instrumentalism ethical climate and unethical (Hypothesis 3).

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yijiu Ge
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - Supervisor Bottom-Line Mentality, Instrumentalism Ethical Climate and Employee’s Unethical Behavior: The Moderate Effect of Moral Identity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 766
EP  - 772
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.180
DO  - 10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.180
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