DIFFERENT HATS, DIFFERENT OBLIGATIONS: PLURAL OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITIES AND SITUATED MORAL JUDGMENTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Leavitt, Keith; Reynolds, Scott J.; Barnes, Christopher M.; Schilpzand, Pauline; Hannah, Sean T.
• 署名单位: Oregon State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Wake Forest University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.1023
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 1316-1333
• 关键词: implicit association test; taboo trade-offs; decision-making; work; PSYCHOLOGY; MODEL; identification; ORGANIZATIONS; MALLEABILITY; contingency

摘要

It is well understood that moral identity substantially influences moral judgments. However, occupational identities are also replete with moral content, and individuals may have multiple occupational identities within a given work role (e.g., engineer and manager). Consequently, we apply the lenses of moral universalism and moral particularism to categorize occupational identities and explore their moral prescriptions. We present and test a model of occupational identities as implicitly held and dynamically activated knowledge structures, cued by context and containing associated content about the absolute and/or relationship-dependent moral obligations owed by an actor to stakeholders. Results from one field study and two situated experiments with dual-occupation individuals indicate that moral obligations embedded in occupational identities influence actors' work role moral judgments in a predictable and meaningful manner.