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Identifying Profiles of Moral Personality That Are Maximally Associated with Pro-Organizational Unethical Behavior, Counterproductive Work Behavior, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Abstract
Unethical behavior continues to be a significant concern in organizational contexts. Yet, there is a dearth of research on the identification of constructs that are suitable for the purpose of predicting such behaviors. To address this research gap, the present study examines the relationship between moral personality—a promising higher-order personality trait with conceptual ties to Triune Ethics Theory—and morality-laden workplace behaviors. Specifically, it was hypothesized that prototypical profiles of moral personality would significantly predict organizational citizenship behaviors toward other individuals and the organization (OCB-I, OCBO), counterproductive work behaviors toward other individuals and the organization (CWB-I, CWB-O), and pro-organizational unethical behaviors in a sample of working adults. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that the correlations between composite scores of moral personality and other moral constructs (moral identity and self-efficacy) would be statistically significant after controlling for integrity. The final sample consisted of 116 employees who completed personality measures at Time 1 and behavioral measures for two to five days in their natural work setting. The results obtained support the between-person correlational hypotheses, suggesting nontrivial linkages between moral personality, moral self-efficacy, and moral internalization (r = .34 - .38). Moral personality was also found to covary with moral self-efficacy and internalization after controlling for integrity (rsp = .16 - .21). The hypotheses regarding the profile pattern effect and incremental predictive power of the profile pattern effect relative to the profile level effect were supported only for OCB-I and CWB-O (R2 = .03 – .09; ΔR2 = .05 – .09). Overall, the results suggest that moral personality has sufficient breadth as a descriptor of moral dispositions and that it has utility in predictive contexts when operationalized as a composite or unique pattern of personality traits.
Subject
Moral PersonalityMoral Identity
OCBs
CWBs
Moral Dispositions
Profile Patterns
Criterion Profile Analysis
Citation
George Jr, Felix (2022). Identifying Profiles of Moral Personality That Are Maximally Associated with Pro-Organizational Unethical Behavior, Counterproductive Work Behavior, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /198527.