JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
THE CONCEPTUAL PROPOSAL OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF ETHICAL CLIMATE, MORAL DISENGAGEMENT AND UNETHICAL PRO-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Faizal Zulkifli, Norizah Mohd Mustamil*
Abstract:
Over the past decades, there are various unethical behaviours at workplace have been reported including the emerging trend of employees’ involvement in unethical behaviours with the main intention to benefiting the organisation and the members of the organisation which is also known as unethical pro-organizational behaviour (UPB). The promotion of UPB at the organizations result in various impacts such as fines, bad reputations, and the emotions of the employees. The UPB phenomenon has caught the attention of business ethics scholars to understand on when and how employees involve in UPB. Drawing from social cognitive theory, this paper proposes conceptual proposals that ethical climate and moral disengagement are the main predictors of UPB at the workplace.
Keywords: unethical pro-organizational behaviour, ethical climate, moral disengagement, conceptual paper