Antecedents of employee responses to organizational wrongdoing.
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Title
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Antecedents of employee responses to organizational wrongdoing.
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Identifier
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AAI9224797
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identifier
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9224797
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Creator
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Casal, Jose Carlos.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Sheldon S. Zalkind
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Business Administration, Management
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Abstract
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The study of employee responses to organizational wrongdoing has been largely synonymous with the study of employees' decisions to blow the whistle. Both theory and research have focused on employees' decisions to report organizational wrongdoing (cf. Graham, 1983, 1986; Near and Miceli, 1987). Employees who become aware of organizational wrongdoing, however, make not only this decision but also decide whether or not to leave their organizations (Graham, 1983, 1986).;This study examined a model of employee responses to organizational dissent which was derived from the literatures on: whistle-blowing, exit and voice as responses to dissatisfaction and voluntary turnover. Labeled the Principled Response Model, it consists of four sets of variables believed to explain employee responses to organizational wrongdoing: the harmfulness of wrongdoing, the expected consequences of responses to it, perceived responsibility for reporting wrongdoing and organizational commitment.;The model's propositions were tested among private sector accountants reporting awareness of fraud in their organizations (N = 240), part of a larger sample (N = 613) of randomly selected National Association of Accountants members responding to a mail survey (Response rate = 20%). The results of these tests generally supported the role of the expected effectiveness and cost of reporting, especially the former, in employees' decisions to report organizational wrongdoing and/or to leave in response to these organizational actions. Organizational commitment was also found to play a role in both the decision to leave and the decision to report wrongdoing.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
