Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?

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Autor(a) principal: Relvas, Catarina Almeida Isidro
Data de Publicação: 2019
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19094
Resumo: Moral disengagement occurs when an individual's self-regulatory function is not activated, allowing them to dissociate from the consequences resulting from their behaviors, becoming more prone to make unethical decisions - e.g. gossip about coworkers. It is known that personality is a predictor of Moral disengagement. The Honesty-Humility personality trait, which represents an individual's tendency to be fair and sincere, opposition Moral disengagement processes. Finally, Ethical Leadership also emerges as a deterrent since, through social learning, individuals behave as their ethical leader, avoiding the occurrence of unethical behaviors. It is yet unknown how both interact and if an unethical leadership is able to override the personality deterrent effect. Therefore, the present study aims to find out if Moral disengagement mediates the (negative) relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip. Additionally, we try to understand if Ethical Leadership has a moderating role between Honesty-Humility and Moral disengagement - also with a negative relationship between them. With a sample of 358 employees, findings showed that Honesty-Humility is negatively correlated with Moral disengagement and that this relationship is positively moderated by Ethical Leadership. Finally, this study also allowed us to conclude that Moral disengagement mediates the negative relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip (only in the case of instrumental gossip) as well as Ethical Leadership positively moderates this relationship.
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spelling Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?Moral disengagementEthical leadershipHonesty-humilityGossipDesvinculação moralLiderança éticaHonestidade-humildadeIntrigaMoral disengagement occurs when an individual's self-regulatory function is not activated, allowing them to dissociate from the consequences resulting from their behaviors, becoming more prone to make unethical decisions - e.g. gossip about coworkers. It is known that personality is a predictor of Moral disengagement. The Honesty-Humility personality trait, which represents an individual's tendency to be fair and sincere, opposition Moral disengagement processes. Finally, Ethical Leadership also emerges as a deterrent since, through social learning, individuals behave as their ethical leader, avoiding the occurrence of unethical behaviors. It is yet unknown how both interact and if an unethical leadership is able to override the personality deterrent effect. Therefore, the present study aims to find out if Moral disengagement mediates the (negative) relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip. Additionally, we try to understand if Ethical Leadership has a moderating role between Honesty-Humility and Moral disengagement - also with a negative relationship between them. With a sample of 358 employees, findings showed that Honesty-Humility is negatively correlated with Moral disengagement and that this relationship is positively moderated by Ethical Leadership. Finally, this study also allowed us to conclude that Moral disengagement mediates the negative relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip (only in the case of instrumental gossip) as well as Ethical Leadership positively moderates this relationship.A desvinculação moral ocorre quando a função de autorregulação de um indivíduo não é ativada, permitindo dissociar-se das consequências resultantes dos seus comportamentos, tornando-se mais propenso a tomar decisões não éticas - e.g. fazer intrigas acerca dos colegas de trabalho. Sabe-se que a personalidade é um preditor da desvinculação moral, nomeadamente o traço de personalidade honestidade-humildade, que representa a tendência que um indivíduo tem para ser justo e sincero, contrariando processos de desvinculação moral. Por fim, a liderança ética surge também como um desencorajador pois, através da aprendizagem social, os indivíduos comportam-se como o seu líder ético, reduzindo assim a ocorrência de condutas não éticas. Falta compreender em que medida as duas interagem e se uma liderança não ética consegue anular o efeito detrator da personalidade. Deste modo, o presente estudo pretende descobrir em que medida a Desvinculação Moral medeia a relação (negativa) entre a honestidade-humildade e a intriga. Em acréscimo, procuramos compreender se a liderança ética tem um papel moderador entre a honestidade-humildade e a desvinculação moral – também com uma relação negativa entre si. Com uma amostra de 358 trabalhadores, os resultados mostraram que a honestidade-humildade está negativamente associada à desvinculação moral e que esta relação é moderada positivamente pela liderança ética. Por fim, este estudo também nos permitiu concluir que a desvinculação moral medeia a relação negativa entre a honestidadehumildade e a intriga (apenas no caso da intriga instrumental) bem como a liderança ética modera, positivamente, essa relação.2022-11-06T00:00:00Z2019-11-06T00:00:00Z2019-11-062019-09info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/19094TID:202314219engRelvas, Catarina Almeida Isidroinfo: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:RCAAP2023-11-09T17:45:29Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/19094Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:21:44.470946Repositório 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 Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
title Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
spellingShingle Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
Relvas, Catarina Almeida Isidro
Moral disengagement
Ethical leadership
Honesty-humility
Gossip
Desvinculação moral
Liderança ética
Honestidade-humildade
Intriga
title_short Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
title_full Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
title_fullStr Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
title_full_unstemmed Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
title_sort Dispositional honesty-humility and moral disengagement in explaining gossip: does ethical leadership make any difference?
author Relvas, Catarina Almeida Isidro
author_facet Relvas, Catarina Almeida Isidro
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Relvas, Catarina Almeida Isidro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Moral disengagement
Ethical leadership
Honesty-humility
Gossip
Desvinculação moral
Liderança ética
Honestidade-humildade
Intriga
topic Moral disengagement
Ethical leadership
Honesty-humility
Gossip
Desvinculação moral
Liderança ética
Honestidade-humildade
Intriga
description Moral disengagement occurs when an individual's self-regulatory function is not activated, allowing them to dissociate from the consequences resulting from their behaviors, becoming more prone to make unethical decisions - e.g. gossip about coworkers. It is known that personality is a predictor of Moral disengagement. The Honesty-Humility personality trait, which represents an individual's tendency to be fair and sincere, opposition Moral disengagement processes. Finally, Ethical Leadership also emerges as a deterrent since, through social learning, individuals behave as their ethical leader, avoiding the occurrence of unethical behaviors. It is yet unknown how both interact and if an unethical leadership is able to override the personality deterrent effect. Therefore, the present study aims to find out if Moral disengagement mediates the (negative) relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip. Additionally, we try to understand if Ethical Leadership has a moderating role between Honesty-Humility and Moral disengagement - also with a negative relationship between them. With a sample of 358 employees, findings showed that Honesty-Humility is negatively correlated with Moral disengagement and that this relationship is positively moderated by Ethical Leadership. Finally, this study also allowed us to conclude that Moral disengagement mediates the negative relationship between Honesty-Humility and Gossip (only in the case of instrumental gossip) as well as Ethical Leadership positively moderates this relationship.
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