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Pro-Organizational Unethical Behaviors: Antecedents, Consequences and Struggle Methods

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 65 - 88, 30.06.2025

Mukaddes Güler

https://doi.org/10.47097/piar.1657336

Abstract

Ethics is an important issue that attracts the attention of many researchers every day. In the current sense, organizations, as the basic building block of the national economy, are structures with social responsibilities that also consider the interests of their external stakeholders. Especially in line with the scandals experienced by organizations that are expected to fulfil ethical standards in all their work and activities, the issue of ethics has come to the agenda more. Recently, the issue of unethical behaviours of employees against social norms and for the benefit of the organization has attracted more attention. Although this behaviour of employees or managers may be beneficial for the organization in the short term, it is likely to reach serious dimensions in the long term. Therefore, organizations need to prevent the emergence of such behaviours or struggle to eliminate them completely. This study has been prepared to provide an in-depth understanding of the existing body of knowledge on pro-organizational unethical behaviours in line with previous research and to provide guidance for future research.

Keywords

Ethics Pro-Organizational Unethical Behaviors Struggle Methods.

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Örgüt Yanlısı Etik Olmayan Davranışlar; Öncülleri, Sonuçları ve Mücadele Yöntemleri

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 65 - 88, 30.06.2025

Mukaddes Güler

https://doi.org/10.47097/piar.1657336

Abstract

Etik konusu her geçen gün birçok araştırmacının dikkati çeken önemli bir konudur. Güncel anlamda örgütler ülke ekonomisinin temel yapı taşı olarak dış paydaşlarının çıkarlarını da gözeten sosyal sorumlulukları olan yapıdır. Özellikle yaptıkları her iş ve faaliyetlerinde etik standartları yerine getirmesi beklenen örgütlerin yaşadığı skandallar doğrultusunda etik konusu daha fazla gündeme gelmiştir. Son zamanlarda ise çalışanların toplumsal normlara aykırı ve örgütün yararına olan örgüt yanlısı etik olmayan davranışlar konusu daha fazla dikkat çekmiştir. Çalışanların ya da yöneticilerin bu davranışı sergilemesi her ne kadar örgüt için kısa vadede bir fayda sağlasa da uzun vadede ciddi boyutlara ulaşması muhtemel bir durumdur. Bu nedenle, örgütlerin bu tür davranışların ortaya çıkmasını engellemeleri veya tamamen ortadan kaldırmaya yönelik mücadele vermeleri gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma, örgüt yanlısı etik olmayan davranışların bundan önceki araştırmalar doğrultusunda daha geniş çerçeveden ele alınarak mevcut bilgi birikiminin derinlemesine anlaşılmasını sağlamak ve gelecek araştırmalara rehberlik sunmak üzere hazırlanmıştır.

Keywords

Etik Örgüt Yanlısı Etik Olmayan Davranış Mücadele Yöntemleri.

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Mukaddes Güler 0000-0001-7159-1547

Early Pub Date June 30, 2025
Publication Date June 30, 2025
Submission Date March 14, 2025
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APA Güler, M. (2025). Örgüt Yanlısı Etik Olmayan Davranışlar; Öncülleri, Sonuçları ve Mücadele Yöntemleri. Pamukkale Üniversitesi İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi, 12(1), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.47097/piar.1657336
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