Dr. Abdus Sattar Abbasi

Abstract

Purpose – The basic purpose of the study is to understand the ethical judgment, moral identity, love of money, spirituality, and religiosity as predictors of ethical intention and to investigate how ethical work climate moderates these relationships. Rationale – Ethical decision making literature doesn’t shed much light on love of money, religiosity, and spirituality impact on ethical intention especially under configurations of ethical work climate. Design/methodology/approach – A significant literature gap was identified through a de-tailed literature review. Mail survey was employed to solicit responses from members of Marketing Association of Pakistan (MAP), Lahore chapter. Findings – Pearson correlation results showed that: ethical judgment is highly significant-ly correlated with ethical intention; love of money (LoM) has significant negative corre-lation with ethical intention; religiosity, spirituality, and moral identity are positively re-lated to ethical intention but this correlation is not significant. Pair wise simple regression largely confirmed the correlation results in that ethical judg-ment was highly significant positive predictor of ethical intention; LoM negative but sig-nificant predictor of ethical intention; spirituality was a positive marginally significant predictor of ethical intention; and religiosity and moral identity, though having positive relationship, were not found to be significant predictors of ethical intention. In pair wise hierarchal regression, the only significant predictors of ethical intention were ethical judgment and love of money (positive and negative predictor respectively); in-strumental work climate was a significant negative predictor of ethical intention in all iterations of hierarchal regression and caring work climate moderates the religiosity-ethical intention link. There also have been supplementary findings that instrumental and caring work climate deters ethical intention though former being more detrimental that later. Implications – Our study has important practical implications especially configuring ethi-cal work climate in a way so as to foster ethical decision. The study also had important research implications. Originality/value – Very few studies have tested the relationship between moral identity, love of money, spirituality, and religiosity on ethical intention