Organizational Justice, Moral Ideology, and Moral Evaluation as Antecedents of Moral Intent

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Jennie Susanen
dc.contributor.committeechairWiswell, Albert K.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBelli, Gabriella M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKlunk, Clare D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberReio, Thomas G. Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentAdult Learning and Human Resource Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:10:14Zen
dc.date.adate2007-05-08en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:10:14Zen
dc.date.issued2007-04-17en
dc.date.rdate2007-05-08en
dc.date.sdate2007-04-20en
dc.description.abstractThe present research in ethical decision-making draws from the fields of moral philosophy, social psychology, and organizational theory with the intention of establishing links among social/organizational influences, individual cognitive elements of moral behavior, individual difference characteristics, and the intention to act ethically. Ethical decision-making, by investigating the moral judgment (evaluation) and moral intent components of an ethical decision-making model, was examined. This augments existing research concerning inconsistencies between the ethical behavior of an individual and the individual's level of moral development, which in the workplace are hypothesized to be related to organizational factors. Research questions developed from this groundwork, as well as research on moral ideology and organizational justice, were formulated to examine how moral ideology, moral evaluation, and organizational justice work together to explain moral intent. Moral evaluation explained 55% of the variance in moral intent after controlling for moral ideology and organizational justice. For a subset of the data, three organizational justice variables explained a very modest proportion of the variance in moral evaluation after controlling for two moral ideology variables. Implications for future research and considerations for practice are presented.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-04202007-100829en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-100829/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/27063en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartJSJohnson.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectmoral intenten
dc.subjectorganizational justiceen
dc.subjectethical decision-makingen
dc.titleOrganizational Justice, Moral Ideology, and Moral Evaluation as Antecedents of Moral Intenten
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineAdult Learning and Human Resource Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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