Diversity Management Efforts as an Ethical Responsibility: How Employees’ Perceptions of an Organizational Integration and Learning Approach to Diversity Affect Employee Behavior

Tanja Rabl (), María Carmen Triana (), Seo-Young Byun () and Laura Bosch ()
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Tanja Rabl: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
María Carmen Triana: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seo-Young Byun: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Laura Bosch: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 161, issue 3, No 3, 550 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper integrates the inclusion and organizational ethics literatures to examine the relationship between employees’ perceptions of an organizational integration and learning approach to diversity and two employee outcomes: organizational citizenship behavior toward the organization and interpersonal workplace deviance. Findings across two field studies from the USA and Germany show that employees’ perceptions of an organizational integration and learning approach to diversity are positively related to perceived organizational ethical virtue. Perceived organizational ethical virtue further transmits the effect of employees’ perceptions of an organizational integration and learning approach to diversity on both organizational citizenship behavior toward the organization and interpersonal workplace deviance. In addition, we find support for a moderated indirect effect model whereby the indirect effect of the perceived integration and learning approach to diversity on the dependent variables through perceived organizational ethical virtue is stronger when employees have high personal value for diversity rather than low personal value for diversity. These results underscore the importance of having a fit between employees’ perceptions of an organization’s approach to diversity and employees’ personal value for diversity in order for inclusion to result in positive employee behaviors. Results emphasize the ethical responsibility of organizations in terms of how they approach diversity.

Keywords: Deviant behavior; Ethical virtue; Ethics; Inclusion; Integration and learning approach to diversity; Organizational citizenship behavior; Personal value for diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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