Abstract
Our research examines the importance of ethics‐related mentoring, its measurement and potential role in promoting protégé ethical behaviours. In Study 1, 25 interviews with mentoring experts generated 40 items for a new measure of ethics‐related mentoring. Across studies 2 and 3, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, using data collected from 114 and 152 protégés, respectively, reduced these to 15 items and supported its confirmatory and discriminant validity. Study 4, a scenario‐based experiment, confirmed that protégé perceptions of their ethics‐related mentoring increases their organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) whilst reducing their counterproductive work behaviour (CWB). Drawing on social learning theory and moral identity theory, we demonstrate that both moral identity and moral self‐efficacy mediate the relationship with CWB, but only moral identity mediates the relationship with OCB. We found limited support for a moderating role of mentor prototypicality. Overall, we present strong evidence for the reliability and validity of our new ethics‐related mentoring measure and a new theoretical framework explaining its potential role in promoting protégé ethical behaviours.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | British Journal of Management |
Early online date | 16 Jan 2023 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 16 Jan 2023 |
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© 2023 The Authors.British Journal of Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Academy of Management.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distri-bution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
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Ethics-related mentoring and protégé ethical behaviour: exploring the moderating role of mentor prototypicality and the mediating role of protégé moral motivation
Busch, C. (Author), Crawshaw, J. (Supervisor), Guillaume, Y. (Supervisor) & Legood, A. (Supervisor), 20 Jun 2019Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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