The relationship between organizational identification and internal whistle-blowing: the joint moderating effects of perceived ethical climate and proactive personality

Yan Liu (), Shuming Zhao (), Rui Li (), Lulu Zhou () and Feng Tian ()
Additional contact information
Yan Liu: Soochow University
Shuming Zhao: Nanjing University
Rui Li: Soochow University
Feng Tian: University of Newcastle

Review of Managerial Science, 2018, vol. 12, issue 1, No 4, 113-134

Abstract: Abstract Based on the theory of planned behavior, this paper explores the relationship between an employee’s identification with the employing organization (organizational identification) and the employee’s intention to whistle-blow via organizational internal channels (internal whistle-blowing intention), incorporating a joint moderator that combines perceived ethical climate and proactive personality. After analyzing data from 726 employees in China, the results show that organizational identification is positively associated with internal whistle-blowing intention and that the relationship is jointly moderated by perceived ethical climate and proactive personality, i.e. organizational identification more positively predicts internal whistle-blowing intention in individuals who have a high proactive personality and perceive a strong ethical climate. The results are discussed in terms of the implications for theory and practice.

Keywords: Internal whistle-blowing intention; Organizational identification; Perceived ethical climate; Proactive personality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11846-016-0214-z Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:rvmgts:v:12:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1007_s11846-016-0214-z

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/business/journal/11846

DOI: 10.1007/s11846-016-0214-z

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Managerial Science is currently edited by R. Ewert and W. Kürsten

More articles in Review of Managerial Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().