The Empirical Study On Bystanders Moral Behavior Orientation In Workplace Bullying

For workplace bullying issue,the existing researches mainly focus on psychology perspective to analysis the the motivation of the bullies and the psychological influence on victims,or on sociology perspective to analysis the social causes of bullying behavior.However,as interpersonal incidents with obvious moral implication,workplace bullying involves three main parties,except bullies and victims.Bystanders as the third party,their moral attitude and behavior orientation will have effects on the process and results of bullying incidents.Therefore,conducting the research to the behavior orientation of workplace bullying bystanders from the perspective of morality,can expand the idea of enterprise management ethics.Meanwhile,there will be a practical significance of making incentive ethical management policy,stoping bullying incidents,reducing bullying consequences,and creating harmonious and active corporate culture.The research based on the moral decision theory,take the empirical method to design bystanders moral behavior questionnaire and make statistical analysis.And then we study the effect of bystanders perceived moral intensity,bystanders moral approbation and organizational ethical climate on the four stages:moral cognition,moral judgment,moral intention and moral behavior.Through structural equation modeling,we can clearly describe the action mechanism of the factors which influence the moral behavior orientation of the bystanders and the forming path of the moral behavior decision-making in the workplace bullying situation.The results are as follows:issue itself's moral intensity,bystanders moral approbation and organizational ethical climate can significantly affect the well-intentioned moral behavior;demographic differences of bystanders will have a certain impact on their moral values in the bullying situations;probability of effect,magnitude of consequenceis and temporal immediacy are three significant dimensions of moral intensity;there is a significant path in the relationship between moral judgment and moral intention,and in the relationship between moral intention and moral behavior.According to the research results,we put forward some ethical management suggestions on how to build a harmony-oriented ethical climate,establish a justice-oriented institutional regulation,and pay more attention to the moral education of the staff.