Villains, Victims, and Verisimilitudes: An Exploratory Study of Unethical Corporate Values, Bullying Experiences, Psychopathy, and Selling Professionals’ Ethical Reasoning

Sean Valentine (), Gary Fleischman () and Lynn Godkin ()
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Sean Valentine: University of North Dakota
Gary Fleischman: Texas Tech University
Lynn Godkin: Lamar University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, vol. 148, issue 1, No 9, 135-154

Abstract: Abstract This study assesses the relationships among unethical corporate values, bullying experiences, psychopathy, and selling professionals’ ethical evaluations of bullying. Information was collected from national/regional samples of selling professionals. Results indicated that unethical values, bullying, and psychopathy were positively interrelated. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively associated with moral intensity, while moral intensity was positively related to ethical issue importance. Psychopathy and unethical values were negatively related to issue importance, and issue importance and moral intensity were positively related to ethical judgment. Finally, ethical judgment and moral intensity were positively linked to ethical intention; psychopathy was negatively associated with ethical intention.

Keywords: Workplace bullying; Psychopathy; Corporate ethical values; Ethical reasoning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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