About this Research Topic
The main goal of this Research Topic is to extend and enrich the research on workplace (im)moral behavior, further developing the individual emotion-centric model and social cognitive process model, exploring the individual dynamic moral emotions and moral cognition before and after the conduct of workplace (im)moral behavior, and clarifying the respective boundary conditions. Furthermore, this Research Topic also welcomes the research that addresses the costs or benefits that organizational members experience from engaging in workplace immoral (moral) behavior and proposes various governance strategies toward the behavior.
Topics of interest for this Research Topic include, but are not limited, to the following themes relevant to the workplace (im)moral behavior:
• Self-conscious moral emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride) and workplace (im)moral behavior
• Other-oriented moral emotions (e.g., anger, disgust, contempt, and gratitude) and workplace (im)moral behavior
• Moral cognition (e.g., moral self-efficacy, perceived loss of moral credits, moral self-regard) and workplace (im)moral behavior
• Moral awareness, moral identity, and workplace (im)moral behavior
• Victim-centric outcomes of workplace (im)moral behavior
• Perpetrator-centric (actor-centric) outcomes of workplace (im)moral behavior
• Bystander effects of workplace (im)moral behavior
• Moral balance (e.g., moral licensing and moral cleansing effects) and workplace (im)moral behavior
• Ethical/unethical leader behavior and followers’ moral emotions, moral cognition, moral judgment, moral decision-making, and (im)moral behavior
• Impact of individual moral characteristics on moral emotions, moral cognition, and (im)moral behavior in the workplace
• Impact of team moral standards/norms on individual moral emotions, moral cognition, and (im)moral behavior in the workplace
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual moral emotions, moral cognition, and (im)moral behavior in the workplace.
We invite both conceptual and empirical research as well as systematic literature review on the above topics. And we are particularly interested in research that combines multiple theoretical backgrounds, theory development, and methodological approaches.
Keywords: Organizational Behavior, Workplace Moral and Immoral Behavior, Moral Emotions, Morally Relevant Social Emotional Process, Moral Cognition, Moral Judgement, Emotion-Cognition System, Moral Decisions, Individual Morality, Collective Morality, COVID-19 Pandemic
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