Culture, value commitments, and supervisors’ ethics: Exploring a multilevel mediation model

IF 7.5 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

European Management Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.004

Kristine Velasquez Tuliao

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Abstract

Significant research provides evidence of social and individual factors that influence ethics. However, consideration of the cultural assimilation process that simultaneously emphasizes the roles of national-level and individual-level values is scarce. Building on the arguments of Merton's anomie theory (1938, 1968), this study considered a multilevel mediation model to investigate the direct effects of cultural values on supervisors' ethics as well as the indirect effects through value commitments. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was employed to perform a centered within context with the reintroduction of the subtracted means at Level-2 (CWC(M)) mediation analysis on the data of 9813 supervisors across 30 countries. The study's findings contribute to Merton's anomie theory by deliberating on the importance of the assimilation of society's cultural values as reflected by individual value commitments in shaping supervisors' ethicality. Considering that some results opposed the propositions of Merton's anomie theory, this paper offered arguments that complement them.

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文化、价值承诺与主管伦理:探索一个多层次的中介模型

大量研究证明，社会和个人因素对伦理产生影响。然而，同时强调国家层面和个人层面价值观作用的文化同化过程的研究却很少。本研究以默顿的反常理论（1938 年，1968 年）为基础，采用多层次中介模型来研究文化价值观对主管道德的直接影响以及通过价值承诺产生的间接影响。本研究采用层次线性模型（HLM）对 30 个国家 9813 名监督员的数据进行了以上下文为中心的二级减去均值（CWC(M)）中介分析。研究结果对默顿的反常理论做出了贡献，探讨了个人价值承诺所反映的社会文化价值观的同化在塑造督导的道德性方面的重要性。考虑到一些研究结果与默顿的反常理论命题相悖，本文提出了补充这些命题的论据。

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European Management Journal Multiple-

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12.90

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5.30%

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113

审稿时长

74 days

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