Motivational Antecedents of Whistle-Blowing in Iranian Public Service Organizations مقاله

نویسنده: Jalilvand، Mohammad Reza ؛ Nasrolahi Vosta، Simin ؛ Yasini، Ali ؛

Iranian Journal Of Management Studies Spring 2017, Volume 10 - Number 2 ، الف/ISC (‎24 صفحه - از 385 تا 408 )

کلیدواژه ها: Public Sector ethical issues cultural issues Personal traits Whistle-blowing Iran PT EP An

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This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. Whistle-blowing in the service organizations of public sector utilizes the mass media to call the attention of public to corruption activities that are associated to the misuse of public funding in a direct way. The current research provides the empirical evidence that whistle-blowing can be motivated with personal and cultural orientation regarding organizational corruption. Drawing on existing literature, this paper examines a structural model of whistle-blowing determinants. A paper-based survey was employed and the statistical population are the employees who work in three anonymous public service organizations in Tehran, Iran. The sample size was estimated at 287. A convenience sampling approach was utilized to collect the required sample. The results of structural analysis indicated that cultural orientation, personal traits and ethical position are significant antecedents of whistle-blowing behaviour. This research suggests that the whistle-blowers have contributed to the disclosure of illegitimate, immoral, and/or illegal practices under their employers’ control that may affect action through their participation in the politicization of whistle-blowing and through their communal and personal transformations.

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Department of Management, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran (Received: August 28, 2016; Revised: April 14, 2017; Accepted: April 19, 2017) Abstract This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. The results of structural analysis indicated that cultural orientation, personal traits and ethical position are significant antecedents of whistle- blowing behaviour. First, this study examines direct and simultaneous effects of personality traits, ethical position, and cultural orientation on whistle-blowing intention. Firstly, an extensive literature review on personality traits, ethical position and cultural orientation provides an overview of the key theoretical background to develop our hypotheses. Personality traits of employees are significant antecedents of whistle-blowing behaviour. Ethical position of employees is a significant antecedent of whistle-blowing behaviour. Prior works suggested that there is a significant linkage between cultural orientation and attitudes towards different manners that an employee could blow the whistle (Park et al. Motivational antecedents Personality traits Ethical position Intention of whistle- blowing Cultural orientation Fig. 1. All scale items for personality traits, ethical position, cultural orientation, and intention of whistle-blowing were assessed by a 5-point Likert scale, with 1 showing strongly disagree and 5 showing strongly agree. The coefficients for personality traits, ethical position, cultural orientation, and whistle-blowing behaviour were 0. Second, the findings of the study support the hypothesis that there is a positive and significant linkage between personality traits and whistle-blowing behaviours.

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