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Psychological mechanisms linking supervisors' moral decoupling to subordinates' ethical voice

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We used social information processing theory to examine the influence of supervisors' moral decoupling on subordinates' ethical voice. Full-time employees of two manufacturing enterprises in southern China completed a two-stage survey. The results revealed that supervisors' moral decoupling negatively predicted subordinates' perceptive moral attentiveness and reflective moral attentiveness. The relationship between perceptual moral attentiveness and ethical voice was nonsignificant, but reflective moral attentiveness was positively related to ethical voice and it negatively mediated the relationship between supervisors' moral decoupling and subordinates' ethical voice. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Source: Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

DOI: 10.2224/sbp.13874

Authors: Lei Ren, Xiaobin Zhang, Qingqing Liu, Yan Zhang, Yuwei Zhang

Institutions: Wuxi University, Henan University of Economic and Law, Jiangnan University

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Business and Education

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4411391430

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