The relationships of ethical ideology, moral disengagement and unethical pro-organizational behavior: Conceptual proposals
List of Authors
  • Faizal Zulkifli , Norizah Mohd Mustamil

Keyword
  • ethical ideology, unethical pro-organizational behavior, moral disengagement, conceptual paper

Abstract
  • The involvement of employees in various unethical conducts in the organizations setting have gained the attention of scholars. In the recent literature, employee’s willingness to commit unethical conduct for the benefit of the organizations and its members which also known as unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) has become a concern to the scholars as it brings various bad consequences to the employees and organizations in the long term. In order to understand what and how employees involve in UPB, this paper provides 3 propositions to explain on how individual differences which is ethical ideology (idealism vs relativism) influence employees’ cognitive process (moral disengagement) that drives them to involve in unethical pro-organizational behaviors.

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