Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size

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Autor(a) principal: Martins, Sandra Isabel Conceição
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20792
Resumo: Moral disengagement is a cognitive process related to ethics that allows individuals to perform unethical behaviors without a moral burden. This process and, in particular, the mechanism of displacement of responsibility, has been linked to leadership since the leader acts as a role model, influencing followers' behavior. Therefore, this study focuses on the influence of a specific type of leadership, abusive supervision, on followers' moral disengagement, with the mediation of instrumental ethical climate. Additionally, team size was introduced as a moderator due to the influence of group dynamics in organizational contexts. With a sample of 226 employees, results show that instrumental ethical climate fully mediates the positive relationship between abusive supervision and moral disengagement. Findings also highlight a conditional direct effect, being the relationship positive for teams sized up to seven members but negative when the team size is larger than 29 members. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for organizations.
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spelling Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team sizeMoral disengagementAbusive supervisionEthical climateTeam sizeDesvinculação moralSupervisão abusivaClima éticoDimensão da equipaMoral disengagement is a cognitive process related to ethics that allows individuals to perform unethical behaviors without a moral burden. This process and, in particular, the mechanism of displacement of responsibility, has been linked to leadership since the leader acts as a role model, influencing followers' behavior. Therefore, this study focuses on the influence of a specific type of leadership, abusive supervision, on followers' moral disengagement, with the mediation of instrumental ethical climate. Additionally, team size was introduced as a moderator due to the influence of group dynamics in organizational contexts. With a sample of 226 employees, results show that instrumental ethical climate fully mediates the positive relationship between abusive supervision and moral disengagement. Findings also highlight a conditional direct effect, being the relationship positive for teams sized up to seven members but negative when the team size is larger than 29 members. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for organizations.A desvinculação moral é um processo cognitivo associado à ética e que permite que os indivíduos tenham comportamentos imorais, sem a respetiva auto-sanção. Este processo e, em particular, o mecanismo de deslocamento da responsabilidade, tem sido associado à liderança, uma vez que o/a líder age como um modelo e influencia o comportamento do/a subordinado/a. Assim, a presente dissertação foca-se na influência que um tipo específico de liderança, a supervisão abusiva, tem na desvinculação moral dos subordinados, com a mediação do clima ético instrumental. Adicionalmente, a dimensão da equipa foi utilizada como uma variável moderadora devido à influência das dinâmicas de grupo em contextos organizacionais. Com uma amostra de 226 trabalhadores, os resultados mostram que o clima ético instrumental medeia totalmente a relação positiva entre a supervisão abusiva e a desvinculação moral. Além disso, os resultados refletem ainda um efeito direto condicional, sendo esta relação positiva em equipas até sete membros, mas negativa quando a dimensão da equipa é superior ou igual a 29 membros. Os resultados são discutidos tendo em conta as suas implicações para as organizações.2020-10-30T11:00:11Z2020-10-02T00:00:00Z2020-10-022020-06info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/20792TID:202529487engMartins, Sandra Isabel Conceiçãoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-09T17:43:29Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/20792Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:20:27.452539Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
title Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
spellingShingle Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
Martins, Sandra Isabel Conceição
Moral disengagement
Abusive supervision
Ethical climate
Team size
Desvinculação moral
Supervisão abusiva
Clima ético
Dimensão da equipa
title_short Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
title_full Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
title_fullStr Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
title_full_unstemmed Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
title_sort Abusive supervision and moral disengagement: The role of ethical climate and team size
author Martins, Sandra Isabel Conceição
author_facet Martins, Sandra Isabel Conceição
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Martins, Sandra Isabel Conceição
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Moral disengagement
Abusive supervision
Ethical climate
Team size
Desvinculação moral
Supervisão abusiva
Clima ético
Dimensão da equipa
topic Moral disengagement
Abusive supervision
Ethical climate
Team size
Desvinculação moral
Supervisão abusiva
Clima ético
Dimensão da equipa
description Moral disengagement is a cognitive process related to ethics that allows individuals to perform unethical behaviors without a moral burden. This process and, in particular, the mechanism of displacement of responsibility, has been linked to leadership since the leader acts as a role model, influencing followers' behavior. Therefore, this study focuses on the influence of a specific type of leadership, abusive supervision, on followers' moral disengagement, with the mediation of instrumental ethical climate. Additionally, team size was introduced as a moderator due to the influence of group dynamics in organizational contexts. With a sample of 226 employees, results show that instrumental ethical climate fully mediates the positive relationship between abusive supervision and moral disengagement. Findings also highlight a conditional direct effect, being the relationship positive for teams sized up to seven members but negative when the team size is larger than 29 members. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for organizations.
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