A recent cross-cultural study suggests employees may be classified, based on their scores on a measure of work ethic, into three profiles labeled as "live to work," "work to live," and "work as a necessary evil." The present study assesses whether these profiles were stable before and after an...

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...

This study aims to examine the connection between global goals (sustainability) and corporate goals for long-term survival (business sustainability), as well as the role of Islamic business and work ethics in achieving them. 325 responses from employees of Islamic institutions were selected to...

The Italian legislator has adopted several instruments to discourage undeclared work and exploitative labour in agriculture, mostly of a penal-repressive nature. Among the direct and indirect policy measures, the 'Quality Agricultural Work Network' represents an interesting approach to producing...

This contribution aims to expand the study of experiences at work by (a) analyzing a theoretical perspective concerning experiences at work which emphasizes both positive aspects as well as negative aspects, (b) exploring the relation of both negative (Bullshit job perceptions; BJP) and positive...

Employees remaining silent about ethical aspects of work or organization-related issues, termed employee ethical silence, perpetuates misconduct in today’s business setting. However, how and why it occurs is not yet well specified in the business ethics literature, which is insufficient to...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of green leadership (GL) on employee pro-environmental behavior (EPEB). The underlying mechanism of followers' green moral obligation (FGMO) was also investigated. The Islamic work ethic (IWE) was studied as a boundary condition. The study...

Research on the correlations between design leadership, work values and ethics, and workplace innovation is lacking, especially in non-Western regions. This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of design leadership in the relationship of work values and ethics with workplace innovation...

The increasing ethical infringements, moral violations, and disciplinary problems among employees point to the deteriorations in employee values. Hiring employees merely on common competency-based recruitment (CBR) versus value-based recruitment (VBR) ignores the critical role of values in...

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...

Purpose: Following social information processing (SIP) theory, this study enriches existing research on emotional culture and innovative behaviour by introducing the chain mediating role of perspective-taking and knowledge-sharing intentions and the moderating role of Confucian work values....

We experimentally investigate the relationship between unethical behaviors through misreporting choices in the workplace and the perceived social inappropriateness of these unethical decisions. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we considered two unethical actions as observed in...

The literature on meaningful work often highlights the role of leaders in creating a sense of meaning in the work or tasks that their staff or followers carry out. However, a fundamental question arises about whether or not leaders are morally responsible for providing meaningful work when...

This study aimed to identify the factors that can improve job performance by scrutinizing various variables, namely organizational identification, Islamic work ethic, work engagement, and organizational commitment, based on the perspective of engagement theory. The respondents consisted of 206...

Human resource (HR) managers can provide significant value to their organizations by understanding the practices that develop HR systems, as well as the ethical implications of the work environment. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the linkages between HR systems and ethical...

The increasing workplace use of artificially intelligent (AI) technologies has implications for the experience of meaningful human work. Meaningful work refers to the perception that one’s work has worth, significance, or a higher purpose. The development and organisational deployment of AI is...

Despite the pervasive use of ethics training by companies, research in management accounting has not considered the effectiveness of such training in curtailing managers' misreporting. This study examines the effect of ethics training on misreporting as a reminder to raise the awareness of...

The Ethics of Care (EoC) theory has been widely applied in the field of management, and there is a growing consensus that it is important to recognise the value and practice of care in the workplace. In this paper, we consider the implications of the EoC at work, and in particular the risks...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept of vicarious moral cleansing and scrutinize whether unethical behavior of leaders initiate moral cleansing in subordinates or not. This study also highlights a boundary condition under which employees are motivated to cleanse their...

This paper uses the IBE Ethics at Work 2018 survey to explore employees' ethical reasoning and examine gender and age differences across 12 countries. Debates about gender and ethics have been intense since Kohlberg's theory of moral development, with feminist critiques from Gilligan and others...

This paper aims to assess workers' well-being through a survey of Italian firms by exploring the factors of leadership styles, ethical behavior, and organizational identification. In recent years, also due to the COVID-19 pandemic and technological progress, workers' well-being has increasingly...

Deviance in the workplace, which has a huge destructive and harmful impact on the organization, is of key concern to academicians and practitioners. Existing literature focuses on the work-related antecedents of workplace deviance. However, the non-work-related antecedents have received little...

As a country with the biggest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia is a fascinating avenue to conduct studies about Muslim behavior, including in the workplace context. The present study focuses on exploring religiosity's effect on Islamic work ethic (IWE). Using the 5th and the 7th waves...

We provide a new theory to explain why firms multitask workers rather than specializing them. Workers over-perform in tasks they like and under-perform in tasks they dislike, to favorably influence future job assignments. Anticipating this, firms may find it optimal to commit to future...

Non-cognitive skills are increasingly recognized as important determinants of labor market outcomes. To what extent specific skills can be affected in adulthood remains an open question. This study conducted a randomized controlled trial with low-skilled employed workers in Senegal, where...