Enhancing employees' duty orientation and moral potency: Dual mechanisms linking ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behaviors |
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| Authors: | Kubilay Gok Mayowa T Babalola C Lakshman John J Sumanth Linh Chi Vo Stijn Decoster Anjali Bansal Ahmet Coşkun |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Business, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, USA;2. Graduate School of Business, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan;3. Department of Management Programs, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA;4. School of Business, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA;5. Institute of Sustainable Business and Organizations, Sciences and Humanities Confluence Research Center—UCLY, ESDES, Lyon, France;6. College of Business, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates;7. Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Lucknow, India;8. Department of Business Administration, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | cross-cultural duty orientation ethical psychological climate ethical taking charge ethical voice moral attentiveness moral potency |
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