Understanding unethical behaviour in the workplace : the CUBT model

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dc.contributor.advisor Gilin Oore, Debra
dc.creator Al-Hamdani, Mohammed A.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-08-30T14:26:40Z
dc.date.available 2017-08-30T14:26:40Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.other HF5387 A4 2017
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/handle/01/27062
dc.description 126 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
dc.description Includes abstract and appendices.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-112).
dc.description.abstract Despite the advances in research on social contagions, personality and contextual factors, there has been no attempt to test the effect of coworker contagion on unethical behaviour in a comprehensive model. There is also a lack of research that attempted to identify a threshold for unethical behaviour. This dissertation provided a framework for testing coworker contagions and unethical behaviour threshold: The Contagious Unethical Behaviour Threshold (CUBT) model. Through a three-study package, the dissertation assessed the theoretical and empirical viability of coworker contagion levels, that is, the number of employees committing unethical behaviour, along with personal values (idealism and relativism) and contexts (risks and rewards) that moderate contagion effects on unethical behaviour. The dissertation also assessed the threshold concept, the point beyond which coworker contagions result in a clear increase in unethical behaviour likelihood. The first study found some support for the existence of a threshold concept based on a qualitative assessment of the effect of coworker contagion levels on unethical behaviour likelihood. Findings from the three studies strongly suggest that coworker contagion levels affected unethical behaviour likelihood. Most statistically significant interactions of personal values and contextual factors involved coworker contagion levels (in the three studies, a total of nine interactions involved coworker contagion levels while a total of three interactions did not involve coworker contagion levels). In all three studies, the contagion effect prevailed over other variables. This work expands on unethical behaviour theory and demonstrates the importance of appreciating the complex interplay among predictors in influencing unethical behaviour. en_CA
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dc.publisher Saint Mary's University
dc.subject.lcc HF5387
dc.subject.lcsh Business ethics
dc.subject.lcsh Work environment
dc.subject.lcsh Contagion (Social psychology)
dc.subject.lcsh Employees -- Attitudes
dc.title Understanding unethical behaviour in the workplace : the CUBT model en_CA
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thesis.degree.name Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
thesis.degree.level Doctoral
thesis.degree.discipline Psychology
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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