Recognizing Moral Disengagement: The Role of Ingroup Moral Blindspot and Accountability
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2021-09
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This present study examined the extent to which unethical cultures exist due to support for moral disengagement rationalizations made by members within a group. Additionally, the potential of accountability to stakeholders to act as an intervention was explored. The study was conducted on a sample of 213 psychology students in two parts, the first focused on measuring group identification using identification with Apple and Microsoft as a proxy variable. Part 2 presented students with scenarios depicting one of four moral disengagement tactics and they were then asked to rate the ethicality of the events that transpired. The results showed a lack of significant effects for most of the proposed hypotheses, however, there was evidence that the acceptability of advantageous comparison, decreased as the participants ingroup identification increased.
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Moral Disengagement, Accountability, Unethical Conduct, Workplace
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Goupal, A. (2021). Recognizing moral disengagement: the role of ingroup moral blindspot and accountability (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.