TY - JOUR
T1 - Villains, Victims, and Verisimilitudes
T2 - An Exploratory Study of Unethical Corporate Values, Bullying Experiences, Psychopathy, and Selling Professionals’ Ethical Reasoning
AU - Valentine, Sean
AU - Fleischman, Gary
AU - Godkin, Lynn
N1 - Funding Information:
Prepared for Journal of Business Ethics; this study was presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 7–11, 2015; this research was supported by the funding provided by the University of Wyoming; the authors wish to thank O. C. Ferrell, Eric Arnould, Tim Barnett, and the anonymous reviewer for their assistance with this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - This study assesses the relationships among unethical corporate values, bullying experiences, psychopathy, and selling professionals’ ethical evaluations of bullying. Information was collected from national/regional samples of selling professionals. Results indicated that unethical values, bullying, and psychopathy were positively interrelated. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively associated with moral intensity, while moral intensity was positively related to ethical issue importance. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively related to issue importance, and issue importance and moral intensity were positively related to ethical judgment. Finally, ethical judgment and moral intensity were positively linked to ethical intention; psychopathy was negatively associated with ethical intention.
AB - This study assesses the relationships among unethical corporate values, bullying experiences, psychopathy, and selling professionals’ ethical evaluations of bullying. Information was collected from national/regional samples of selling professionals. Results indicated that unethical values, bullying, and psychopathy were positively interrelated. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively associated with moral intensity, while moral intensity was positively related to ethical issue importance. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively related to issue importance, and issue importance and moral intensity were positively related to ethical judgment. Finally, ethical judgment and moral intensity were positively linked to ethical intention; psychopathy was negatively associated with ethical intention.
KW - Corporate ethical values
KW - Ethical reasoning
KW - Psychopathy
KW - Workplace bullying
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U2 - 10.1007/s10551-015-2993-6
DO - 10.1007/s10551-015-2993-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953211577
VL - 148
SP - 135
EP - 154
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
SN - 0167-4544
IS - 1
ER -