Enhancing employees duty orientation and moral potency: Dual mechanisms linking ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behaviors

Gok K. Babalola M.T. Lakshman C. Sumanth J.J. Vo L.C. Decoster S. Bansal A. Coşkun A.
January 2023 John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Journal of Organizational Behavior
2023 #44 Issue 1 157 - 175 pp.

Based on social cognitive theory (SCT), we develop and test a model that links ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behavior (i.e., ethical voice and ethical taking charge) via two distinct mechanisms (i.e., duty orientation and moral potency). Results from multi-wave field studies conducted in the United States, Turkey, France, Vietnam, and India demonstrate that an ethical psychological climate indirectly influences employees ethical voice and ethical taking charge behaviors through the dual mechanisms of duty orientation and moral potency. Additionally, we find that individuals moral attentiveness strengthened these mediating processes. Together, these findings suggest that ethical psychological climate is an important antecedent of ethically focused proactive behavior by stimulating individuals sense of duty and enhancing their moral potency, particularly when employees are already highly attuned to moral issues.

cross-cultural , duty orientation , ethical psychological climate , ethical taking charge , ethical voice , moral attentiveness , moral potency

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Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
School of Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Department of Management Programs, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States
School of Business, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Institute of Sustainable Business and Organizations, Sciences and Humanities Confluence Research Center—UCLY, ESDES, Lyon, France
College of Business, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Lucknow, India
Department of Business Administration, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

College of Business
Graduate School of Business
School of Management
Department of Management Programs
School of Business
Institute of Sustainable Business and Organizations
College of Business
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
Department of Business Administration

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