Encouraging employees to report unethical conduct internally: It takes a village

Mayer, David M.; Nurmohamed, Samir; Treviño, Linda Klebe; Shapiro, Debra L.; Schminke, Marshall

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Encouraging employees to report unethical conduct internally: It takes a village

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Mayer, David M., Nurmohamed, Samir, Treviño, Linda Klebe, Shapiro, Debra L., Schminke, Marshall·2013·Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

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“Ethical leadership most powerfully impacts outcomes such as whistle-blowing when followers are focused more on rules than on the consequences of their actions (Bhal & Dadhich, 2011), and ethical teammates may be a necessary precondition for ethical leadership to affect whistle-blowing (Mayer et al., 2013).”
From Taking Stock of Moral Approaches to Leadership: An Integrative Review of Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership (2019) · cites this paper as Mayer et al., 2013
Ethical leadership most powerfully impacts outcomes such as whistle-blowing when followers are focused more on rules than on the consequences of their actions.
“Ethical leadership most powerfully impacts outcomes such as whistle-blowing when followers are focused more on rules than on the consequences of their actions (Bhal & Dadhich, 2011), and ethical teammates may be a necessary precondition for ethical leadership to affect whistle-blowing (Mayer et al., 2013).”
From Taking Stock of Moral Approaches to Leadership: An Integrative Review of Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership (2019) · cites this paper as Mayer et al., 2013
A compliance culture mediates ethical leadership's impact on rule compliance and within-organization whistle-blowing.
“A compliance culture also mediates ethical leadership's impact on rule compliance and withinorganization whistle-blowing (Mayer, Nurmohamed, Treviño, Shapiro, & Schminke, 2013;Schaubroeck et al., 2012).”
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Authors: Mayer, D. M., Nurmohamed, S., Treviño, L. K., Shapiro, D. L., & Schminke, M.
Affiliations: University of Michigan (US)
Pennsylvania State University (US)
University of Maryland, College Park (US)
University of Central Florida (US)
Corresponding author: Mayer, David M.
ORCID: Mayer, David M.
Nurmohamed, Samir
Treviño, Linda Klebe
Shapiro, Debra L.
Venue: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2013-05
Volume: 121
Issue: 1
Pages: 89-103
ISSN: 0749-5978 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.01.002
OpenAlex: W2130891108
Cited by: 244
References: 48
Citations by year: 2026: 12 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 6
FWCI: 28.54
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (publishedVersion)
Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Ethics in medical practice
Keywords: internal whistleblowing, unethical behavior, social influence, fear of retaliation, organizational ethics

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