Whistleblowing and the ‘Person-Situation’ Conundrum: What Matters More?

IF 0.5 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1177/09716858211022893

Meenal Gakhar, Zubin R. Mulla

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article extends the knowledge on whistleblowing by studying the impact of two individual antecedents (moral foundations and personality traits) and two situational factors (ethical leadership and leader–member exchange) on whistleblowing intentions. We presented 203 management students with a situation and assessed their likelihood of whistleblowing. Model estimations found strong support for situational factors overpowering the individual factors in determining the whistleblowing intentions. We found that ethical leadership was positively, and leader–member exchange negatively related with whistleblowing. In the presence of these situational factors, neither the Big Five personality traits, nor the moral foundations of a person seemed to matter in predicting an individual’s whistleblowing behaviour.

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举报和“人-情境”难题:哪个更重要?

本文通过研究两个个体前因（道德基础和人格特征）和两个情境因素（道德领导力和领导-成员交流）对举报意图的影响，扩展了举报知识。我们向203名管理学学生介绍了一种情况，并评估了他们举报的可能性。模型估计发现，在确定告密意图时，情境因素的有力支持压倒了个体因素。我们发现，道德领导力与举报呈正相关，而领导者与成员的交流与举报呈负相关。在这些情境因素的存在下，一个人的五大人格特征和道德基础似乎都不影响预测个人的告密行为。

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Journal of Human Values SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

14.30%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Human Values is a peer-reviewed tri-annual journal devoted to research on values. Communicating across manifold knowledge traditions and geographies, it presents cutting-edge scholarship on the study of values encompassing a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Reading values broadly, the journal seeks to encourage and foster a meaningful conversation among scholars for whom values are no esoteric resources to be archived uncritically from the past. Moving beyond cultural boundaries, the Journal looks at values as something that animates the contemporary in its myriad manifestations: politics and public affairs, business and corporations, global institutions and local organisations, and the personal and the private.