When Does a Proactive Personality Enhance an Employee's Whistle-Blowing Intention?: A Cross-Level Investigation of the Employees in Chinese Companies. Issue 8 (16th November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Yan; Zhao, Shuming; Jiang, Li; Li, Rui
• Is Part Of: Ethics & behavior. Volume 26:Issue 8(2016)
• Page Start: 660
• Page End: 677
• Publication Date: 2016-11-16
• Subjects: instrumental ethical climate -- moral identity -- proactive personality -- whistle-blowing intention; Ethics -- Periodicals; 170.5
• DOI: 10.1080/10508422.2015.1113382
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1050-8422

Abstract

Abstract : To identify the boundary conditions for proactive employees making whistle-blowing decisions, we developed a cross-level model comprising employee proactive personality and two types of whistle-blowing intentions that incorporates the influences of organizational- and individual-level attributes. Analyses of data collected from 432 Chinese employees in 32 companies indicated that proactive personality was positively related to internal whistle-blowing intention and even more positively related to external whistle-blowing intention when individuals were working in organizations characterized by an instrumental ethical climate and employees with a high level of moral identity.