Supervisors’ Value Orientations and Ethics: A Cross-National Analysis

Chung-wen Chen (), Hsiu-Huei Yu (), Kristine Velasquez Tuliao (), Aditya Simha () and Yi-Ying Chang ()
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Chung-wen Chen: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Hsiu-Huei Yu: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Kristine Velasquez Tuliao: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Aditya Simha: University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Yi-Ying Chang: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Journal of Business Ethics, 2021, vol. 170, issue 1, No 11, 167-180

Abstract: Abstract In this study, we used the framework of institutional anomie theory (Messner and Rosenfeld in Crime and the American dream, Wadsworth, Delmont, CA, 2001; Rosenfeld and Messner in: Passas and Agnew (eds) The future of anomie theory, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1997) to examine the relationship between supervisors’ ethics and their personal value orientation, including achievement and pecuniary materialism. We further investigated whether these individual-level associations were moderated by societal factors consisting of income inequality, government efficiency, foreign competition, and technological advancement. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze data of 16,464 supervisors from 42 nations obtained from the 2010–2014 wave of the World Values Survey. Results showed that strong achievement value orientation was positively related to willingness to justify ethically suspect behaviors; government efficiency and technological advancement, respectively, had negative and positive moderating effects on this relationship. On the other hand, foreign competition had a positive moderating effect on the association between pecuniary materialism and ethicality.

Keywords: Supervisors; Value orientations; Institutional anomie theory; Cross-national analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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