Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity

Richa Chaudhary (), Anupriya Singh () and Shalini Srivastava ()
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Richa Chaudhary: Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Anupriya Singh: Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
Shalini Srivastava: Jaipuria Institute of Management

Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, vol. 195, issue 4, No 5, 779-797

Abstract: Abstract This study examines if, how, and when workplace spirituality promotes employee ethical voice. Specifically, it tests a mediated moderation model with psychological ownership as a mediator of the relationship between workplace spirituality and ethical voice, and moral identity internalization as a moderator of this indirect relationship. The hypothesized model was tested on two different samples from the IT (Study 1) and Hotel industry (Study 2). Study 1 adopted a cross-sectional time-lagged design to test the proposed hypotheses while Study 2 used a more robust longitudinal cross-lagged design to validate the results of Study 1. The conceptual model was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) and the results established a direct as well as an indirect effect of workplace spirituality on ethical voice via psychological ownership. However, moral identity internalization failed to moderate the effect of workplace spirituality on ethical voice through psychological ownership in both studies. The results established that workplace spirituality stimulates ethical voice through psychological ownership irrespective of the moral identity of employees. The study identifies workplace spirituality as a novel and significant predictor of ethical voice in organizations and advances the understanding of the psychological processes and contingencies of this relationship. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Keywords: Workplace spirituality; Psychological ownership; Moral identity; Ethical voice; Longitudinal study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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