The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND PERCEIVED WRONGDOING ASSOCIATED WITH WHISTLE‐BLOWING DECISIONS
Abstract
The potential explanations of why some observers report organizational wrongdoing, whereas others do not, are considered in this study. Nearly 8,600 randomly selected employees of 15 organizations completed questionnaires concerning whistle‐blowing. Archival data and aggregate measures of organizational climate were also used. Discriminant analysis revealed that organization members who had observed alleged wrongdoing were more likely to blow the whistle if they had convincing evidence of wrongdoing, if the wrongdoing was serious, and if it directly affected them. Further, where the organization appeared to be dependent on the wrongdoing and threatened retaliation, whistle‐blowers were more likely to report it to someone outside the organization. Implications for management practice and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change
Bandura, A. (1977) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.84.2.191 · Cited by 43,925
Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence.
White, R. W. (1959) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/h0040934 · Cited by 5,681
Cited by
Mesmer-Magnus, J. R., & Viswesvaran, C. (2005) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-005-0849-1 · Cited by 854
Chamberlin, M., Newton, D. W., & Lepine, J. A. (2017) · Personnel Psychology · doi:10.1111/peps.12185 · Cited by 532
Predictors of External Whistleblowing: Organizational and Intrapersonal Variables
Sims, R. L., & Keenan, J. P. (1998) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1023/a:1005763807868 · Cited by 270
Bhal, K. T., & Dadhich, A. (2011) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0876-z · Cited by 201
Metadata
- Authors
- MICELI, M. P., & NEAR, J. P.
- Venue
- Personnel Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1985-09
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 525-544
- ISSN
- 0031-5826 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-6570
- OpenAlex
- W2090962294
- Cited by
- 461
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 19.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND PERCEIVED WRONGDOING ASSOCIATED WITH WHISTLE‐BLOWING DECISIONS. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1985.tb00558.x
- The paper
- MICELI, M. P., & NEAR, J. P. (1985). CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND PERCEIVED WRONGDOING ASSOCIATED WITH WHISTLE‐BLOWING DECISIONS. Personnel Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1985.tb00558.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
