Ethics‐Related Mentoring: A Scale Development and Test of its Role in Promoting Protégé Ethical Behaviour

Busch, Corinna, Crawshaw, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-8204-4071, Guillaume, Yves ORCID: 0000-0003-0040-0453 and Legood, Alison (2024) Ethics‐Related Mentoring: A Scale Development and Test of its Role in Promoting Protégé Ethical Behaviour. British Journal of Management, 35 (1). pp. 210-227.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12707

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Behavioral and Social Science, Basic Behavioral and Social Science, 8 Health and social care services research, 8.3 Policy, ethics, and research governance
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2023 11:47
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2024 13:36
DOI:	10.1111/1467-8551.12707
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12707
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3172924