Does the place make the people? The role of leadership and work climate for moral and prosocial socialization in the workplace.

这个地方造就了人民吗？

• 批准号: 418465753
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Claudia Peus, since 8/2020
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Amsterdam Business School
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/418465753?language=en
• 关键词: Does; place; make; people; role

In order to maintain a healthy and democratic society, it is vital to nurture the moral and prosocial development of all citizens. Likewise, as corporate ethical debacles proliferate, a perennial question asked by researchers, organizations and the general public is: How does the context individuals are embedded in influence moral and prosocial development? Whereas a large body of research has addressed moral and prosocial development in the family and the educational context, so far, little is known about how the occupational context may influence moral and prosocial development. This is surprising from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. Practically speaking, the average adult spends a substantial percentage of its life at work and spillover effects from work to personal life are well documented in psychological research. Also, from a theoretical perspective, there is no reason to believe that moral and prosocial socialization stops with adulthood. Yet, the bulk of research on moral and prosocial functioning in organizations adopts a rather static perspective and does not focus on development over time as a function of the work context. In fact, most studies in this field have been cross-sectional and correlational, leaving us with limited knowledge about causality and what drives change in moral and prosocial functioning over time. The proposed project aims at filling this gap by explicitly investigating the organizational context as a source of employees’ moral and prosocial socialization. Specifically, current research in this field points to two particularly influencing features of the work context: leadership and a work climate with an explicit ethical orientation. Against this background, the proposed project has two major purposes: First, the main objective is to longitudinally investigate the socialization potential of ethically-oriented leadership and socio-moral climate concerning employees’ prosocial and moral development by using sophisticated longitudinal research methods including a meaningful sample size in combination with an adequate number of observations. To optimally capture the moral and prosocial socialization potential of these features, the focus is on newcomers and how they develop over time The second objective is to expand existing research by using a more integrated conceptualization of moral and prosocial development. Specifically, we focus on moral identity, moral sensitivity, moral reasoning, and other features that contribute to individuals’ drive to take moral action. Moreover, we focus on work-related and general prosocial behaviors, including civic orientations and behaviors, as proxies for moral action. In summary, this project will substantially deepen our understanding of how the social context in organizations can influence (or impede) moral and prosocial development of organizational members over time and shed light on the underlying change process and temporal dynamics.

为了维持一个健康和民主的社会，培养所有公民的道德和亲社会发展至关重要。同样，随着企业道德崩溃的激增，研究人员、组织和公众一直在问的一个问题是：个人是如何影响道德和亲社会发展的？虽然大量的研究已经解决了家庭和教育背景下的道德和亲社会的发展，到目前为止，很少有人知道职业环境如何影响道德和亲社会的发展。这从理论和实践的角度来看都是令人惊讶的。实际上，成年人的生活中有相当大的一部分时间是在工作中度过的，心理学研究中有充分的证据证明工作对个人生活的溢出效应。此外，从理论的角度来看，没有理由相信道德和亲社会的社会化会随着成年而停止。然而，大部分关于组织中道德和亲社会功能的研究都采用了一种相当静态的观点，并没有将发展作为工作环境的一个功能。事实上，这一领域的大多数研究都是横截面的和相关的，让我们对因果关系以及随着时间的推移是什么驱动了道德和亲社会功能的变化知之甚少。拟议的项目旨在填补这一空白，明确调查作为雇员道德和亲社会化来源的组织背景。具体而言，目前在这一领域的研究指出，两个特别有影响力的特点的工作环境：领导和一个明确的道德导向的工作氛围。在此背景下，拟议的项目有两个主要目的：第一，主要目标是纵向调查的社会化潜力的道德导向的领导和社会道德气候有关的员工的亲社会和道德的发展，通过使用先进的纵向研究方法，包括一个有意义的样本量结合足够数量的观察。为了最佳地捕捉这些功能的道德和亲社会的社会化潜力，重点是新来者，以及他们如何随着时间的推移发展。第二个目标是扩大现有的研究，通过使用一个更综合的概念化的道德和亲社会的发展。具体来说，我们专注于道德认同，道德敏感性，道德推理，以及其他有助于个人采取道德行动的特征。此外，我们专注于与工作相关的和一般的亲社会行为，包括公民取向和行为，作为道德行为的代理。总之，这个项目将大大加深我们对组织中的社会背景如何随着时间的推移影响（或阻碍）组织成员的道德和亲社会发展的理解，并揭示潜在的变化过程和时间动态。