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The Influence of Ethical Ideologies on Promotive Extra Role Behaviors and Positive Work Behavior of Individuals

İşıl Pekdemir , Aygül Turan YTU

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Abstract

Following the previous studies on ‘extra-role behavior’, this study focuses especially on ‘promotive extra-role behavior’ as well as ‘positive work behavior’, and explores of ethical ideologies on them. On that framework, this paper aims to achieve the effect of ‘ethical ideologies’ (idealism and relativism) on promotive extra-role behaviors (helping and voice) and positive work behavior. Moreover, we examine the impact of being high and low idealist personality as well as high and low relativist personality on level of ‘helping extra-role behavior’, ‘voice behavior’, ‘extra-role behavior’, and ‘positive work behaviors’ that individuals exhibit. This paper also aims to explore the influence of demographic variables on helping, voice, and positive work behavior. In order to achieve the goals mentioned, we collected data from 356 MBA students, and used the ordinal logistic regression analysis. Results indicate that idealism significantly correlates to helping, voice, and positive work behavior.

Keywords

Idealism Ideology Social psychology Personality Relativism Psychology Work (physics) Ordered logit Economic Justice Epistemology Political science Computer science Microeconomics Economics

Subject Areas

Ethics in Business and Education ·Information Systems and Management ·Social Sciences
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior ·Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ·Social Sciences
Management Theory and Practice ·Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ·Social Sciences

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