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A Psychological Process of Bureaucratic Whistleblowing: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior
The American Review of Public Administration ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 , DOI: 10.1177/02750740211003345
Hongseok Lee 1 , Minsung Michael Kang 1 , Sun Young Kim 2
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Whistleblowing is a psychological process that involves the calculation of risks and benefits. While there exists a broad range of research on whistleblowing in the public sector, previous studies have not examined its entire process due to the limited focus on either whistleblowing intention or whistleblowing behavior. This study aims to fill this gap by applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to the whistleblowing context. Specifically, we examine how individual beliefs about the likely consequences of whistleblowing (attitude toward whistleblowing), others’ expectations about whistleblowing (subjective norm), and the capability of blowing the whistle (perceived behavioral control) influence public employees’ actual whistleblowing by way of their intention to report wrongdoings. A series of structural equation models are tested using data from the 2010 Merit Principles Survey. The findings show that the more the employees perceive that the consequences of whistleblowing are important, the more the key referents support whistleblowing, and the more the protections for whistleblowers are available, the more likely are their intentions to disclose wrongdoings and then actually engage in whistleblowing behavior. We conduct additional analyses for internal and external whistleblowers separately and find that there are both meaningful similarities and differences between the two groups. This study provides support for the validity of TPB as a theoretical framework for better understanding and explicating the psychological process of bureaucratic whistleblowing.



中文翻译:

官僚举报的心理过程:应用计划行为理论

举报是一个心理过程,涉及风险和收益的计算。尽管在公共部门中存在关于举报的广泛研究,但由于对举报意图或举报行为的关注有限,以前的研究并未检查其整个过程。这项研究旨在通过将计划行为理论(TPB)应用于举报背景来填补这一空白。具体而言,我们研究了个人对举报的可能后果(对待举报的态度),他人对举报的期望(主观规范)以及吹响举报的能力(感知的行为控制)如何通过以下方式影响公职人员的实际举报:他们举报不法行为的意图。使用来自2010年优点原则调查的数据测试了一系列结构方程模型。调查结果表明,员工越觉得举报的后果很重要,关键指称者就越会支持举报,并且对举报者的保护越多,他们越有可能揭露不法行为,然后实际从事举报行为。我们分别对内部和外部举报者进行了另外的分析,发现两组之间既有有意义的相似之处也有不同之处。本研究为TPB作为更好地理解和阐明官僚举报的心理过程的理论框架的有效性提供了支持。调查结果表明,员工越觉得举报的后果很重要,关键指称者就越会支持举报,并且对举报者的保护越多,他们越有可能揭露不法行为,然后实际从事举报行为。我们分别对内部和外部举报者进行了另外的分析,发现两组之间既有有意义的相似之处也有不同之处。本研究为TPB作为更好地理解和阐明官僚举报的心理过程的理论框架的有效性提供了支持。调查结果表明,员工越觉得举报的后果很重要,关键指称者就越会支持举报,并且对举报者的保护越多,他们越有可能揭露不法行为,然后实际从事举报行为。我们分别对内部和外部举报者进行了另外的分析,发现两组之间既有有意义的相似之处也有不同之处。本研究为TPB作为更好地理解和阐明官僚举报的心理过程的理论框架的有效性提供了支持。而且,对于举报人的保护越多,他们越有可能揭露不法行为,然后实际从事举报行为。我们分别对内部和外部举报者进行了另外的分析,发现两组之间既有有意义的相似之处也有不同之处。本研究为TPB作为更好地理解和阐明官僚举报的心理过程的理论框架的有效性提供了支持。而且,对于举报人的保护越多,他们越有可能揭露不法行为,然后实际从事举报行为。我们分别对内部和外部举报者进行了另外的分析,发现两组之间既有有意义的相似之处也有不同之处。本研究为TPB作为更好地理解和阐明官僚举报的心理过程的理论框架的有效性提供了支持。

更新日期:2021-04-11
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