The influence of military virtues on job performance in the Sri Lanka Air Force: direct or mediated effects?

IF 1.7 Q2 ECONOMICS

International Journal of Ethics and Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1108/ijoes-01-2024-0010

Anuradha Iddagoda, Rebecca Abraham, Manoaj Keppetipola, Hiranya Dissanayake

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Abstract

Purpose

Military values/virtues are a subset of ethical values. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of military virtues on job performance, either directly, or indirectly through mediation by, loyalty, patience, respect, employee engagement, job performance, military ethics, courage, self-discipline, caring, military virtue, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) employee engagement.

Design/methodology/approach

Military virtues were conceptualized as a collective construct, consisting of loyalty, courage, patience, respect, self-discipline and caring. Using a sample of 254 military officers in the SLAF, the authors measured the effect of military virtues on job performance. The first model was a direct measurement of the influence of military virtues on job performance. The second model measured the influence of military virtues on employee engagement, followed by measurement of the influence of employee engagement on job performance. Structural equation modeling was used in data analysis.

Findings

Both direct effects and mediated effects of military virtues on job performance were significant. However, the direct effect was stronger, suggesting that military virtues in and of themselves resulted in superior performance, more effectively, than by first increasing employee engagement with the task or the organization.

Originality/value

This may be an initial empirical examination of the effects of military virtues on job performance.

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军德对斯里兰卡空军工作绩效的影响：直接效应还是中介效应？

目的军事价值观/美德是道德价值观的一个子集。本研究旨在探讨军德对工作绩效的直接影响，或通过忠诚、耐心、尊重、员工敬业度、工作绩效、军事伦理、勇气、自律、关怀、军德、斯里兰卡空军（SLAF）员工敬业度等因素的间接中介影响。设计/方法/途径军德被概念化为一种集体建构，由忠诚、勇气、耐心、尊重、自律和关怀组成。作者以 254 名 SLAF 军官为样本，测量了军德对工作绩效的影响。第一个模型是直接测量军德对工作绩效的影响。第二个模型测量了军德对员工敬业度的影响，然后测量了员工敬业度对工作绩效的影响。结果军德对工作绩效的直接影响和中介影响都很显著。但是，直接效应更强，这表明军德本身比首先提高员工对任务或组织的参与度更能有效地提高工作绩效。

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International Journal of Ethics and Systems ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Ethics and Systems (formerly named Humanomics, the International Journal of Systems and Ethics) is a multidisciplinary journal publishing peer review research on issues of ethics and morality affecting socio-scientific systems in epistemological perspectives. The journal covers diverse areas of a socio-scientific nature. The focus is on disseminating the theory and practice of morality and ethics as a system-oriented study defined by inter-causality between critical variables of given problems.