Journal Article

The Antecedents of Moral Imagination in the Workplace: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective

Whitaker, Brian G., Godwin, Lindsey N.

2013

Overview

As corporate scandals proliferate, organizational researchers and practitioners have made calls for research providing guidance for those wishing to influence positive moral decision-making and behavior in the workplace. This study incorporates social cognitive theory and a vignette-based cognitive measure for moral imagination to examine (a) moral attentiveness and employee creativity as important antecedents of moral imagination and (b) creativity as a moderator of the positive relationship between moral attentiveness and moral imagination. Based on the results from supervisor—subordinate dyadic data (N = 162) obtained from employed students, hypotheses were largely supported as expected. Implications are discussed.

• Publisher: Springer,Springer Netherlands,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Antecedents / Applied ethics / Business and Management / Business Ethics / Cognition / Corporate crime / Creativity / Decision making / Education / Employee supervision / Employees / Ethical behavior / Ethical codes / Ethics / Ethics and moral life / Imagination / Management / Moral development / Moral judgment / Morality / Organization theory / Organizational behavior / Organizational behaviour / Organizational research / Philosophy / Quality of Life Research / Scandals / Social cognition / Social cognitive theory / Social ethics / Sociology / Sociology of knowledge and ethics / Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture / Sociology of organizations and enterprises. Bureaucracy and administration / Sociology of work and sociology of organizations / Studies / Workplaces