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Abuse in the name of injustice: mechanisms of moral disengagement

verfasst von: Raymond Loi, Angela J. Xu, Yan Liu

Erschienen in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Grounded in Bandura’s (Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory, 1986) social cognitive theory of moral thought and action, we develop a conceptual model linking supervisors’ perceptions of organizational injustice and abusive supervision with moral disengagement mechanisms acting as the underlying process. Specifically, we elaborate why and how supervisors’ experiences of each type of injustice (i.e., distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) would trigger their adoption of distinctive moral disengagement mechanisms, which in turn lead to their abusive supervisory conduct. The present conceptual model sheds new light on linking organizational injustice to abusive supervision from a moral perspective. In addition, it also provides important theoretical and managerial implications to our current understanding of why and how abusive supervision happens.

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Titel: Abuse in the name of injustice: mechanisms of moral disengagement
verfasst von: Raymond Loi
Angela J. Xu
Yan Liu
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Asian Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 2210-6723
Elektronische ISSN: 2210-6731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13520-015-0043-1

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