Ethical Behavior at Work Scale (EBAW): Construction and Evidence of Validity: https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2023.1.23947

Samara Monteiro Pereira do Nascimento; Juliana Barreiros Porto; Jeanine Ângela Vieira Zagheto; Luisa Nogueira Guimarães

Ethical Behavior at Work Scale (EBAW): Construction and Evidence of Validity

https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2023.1.23947

Authors

Samara Monteiro Pereira do Nascimento University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7965-2591
Juliana Barreiros Porto University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9164-2719
Jeanine Ângela Vieira Zagheto University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2223-4628
Luisa Nogueira Guimarães University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4895-9718

Abstract

Research on ethical behavior at work presents methodological challenges to minimize the impact of cultural characteristics and social desirability inherent to this phenomenon. The general objective of this study is to build and gather validity evidence for a scale of ethical behavior at work in Brazilian Portuguese that includes everyday behaviors and is applicable to most occupations. An item neutralization method was used in the scale construction. To collect evidence of validity, exploratory factor analysis was performed with a sample of 298 workers and convergent and discriminant analysis with a sample of 226 workers. The final scale had 12 items in a structure with 3 factors (composite reliability > .70) and explained variance of 65.6%. The study proposes an integration of the literature on ethical, counterproductive and work performance behavior and presents results that indicate the scale's suitability for use in future research.

Keywords: ethical behavior, unethical behavior, work, scale.

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Published

2023-01-01

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2023): rPOT N1/2023

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Empirical Research Reports

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