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The Antecedents of Moral Imagination in the Workplace: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective

verfasst von: Brian G. Whitaker, Lindsey N. Godwin

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As corporate scandals proliferate, organizational researchers and practitioners have made calls for research providing guidance for those wishing to influence positive moral decision-making and behavior in the workplace. This study incorporates social cognitive theory and a vignette-based cognitive measure for moral imagination to examine (a) moral attentiveness and employee creativity as important antecedents of moral imagination and (b) creativity as a moderator of the positive relationship between moral attentiveness and moral imagination. Based on the results from supervisor–subordinate dyadic data (N = 162) obtained from employed students, hypotheses were largely supported as expected. Implications are discussed.

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Titel: The Antecedents of Moral Imagination in the Workplace: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
verfasst von: Brian G. Whitaker
Lindsey N. Godwin
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1327-1

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