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Showing 2 results for Unethical Behavior
Ali Akbar Arjmandniya, Rezvan Hejazi, Miss Albert Boghosian , Sara Etemadi Eidgahi, Volume 4, Issue 7 (9-2019)
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According to importance of the issue of ethic in Islam, the purpose of this research is to investigate the negative dimensions of social accounting and how it affects the ethical behavior of accountants. This is an applied research and uses structural equation modeling. Due to the wide scope of the study population, using a Cochran formula, a sample of 384 students and accounting professionals with different levels of knowledge and experience has been identified. The sampling method was applied randomly and a questionnaire was used to survey the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz and Kish through available sampling.The target year is 2018. Feedback from social accounts is considered as a controlling variable for indirect effects of justification and excuse for accountants' unethical behaviors. The results of this research show that social accounts that rejected by subordinates due to inconsistency with reality, it strengthens moral disengagement and undermines the guilt of accountants and, instead, increases their unethical behavior.
Also, with regard to the types of social accounts constructed, the results ultimately show that the justification of social accounts by accountants, in comparison with excuses, leads to higher moral disengagement, less guilt, and more unethical behavior, compared with constructing excuses. Account feedback was hypothesized as a control variable for indirect effects of justifications and excuses on unethical behaviors such that account rejection would strengthen moral disengagement and weaken guilt, and in turn, increase unethical behavior.
Samaneh Refahi Bakhsh, Mehdi Mohammadi, Volume 7, Issue 14 (3-2023)
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Moral outrage is one of the factors that plays an important role in people's reaction to unethical and unfairness behavior, and as an influential variable, it can improve auditors' judgment and decision-making. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of Machiavellianism on moral outrage of certified public accountants working in auditing organization and private audit firms. This research is applied and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study consists of certified public accountants working in auditing organization and private audit firms in 2022. The statistical sample includes 304 people who were selected using randomized cluster sampling. The research variables were measured using standard questionnaires, and finally, multivariate regression was used to analyze the collected data. The results of the present study show the negative and significant effect of Machiavellian personality on moral outrage in both groups of certified public accountants working in the public sector and working in the private sector. Also, the results showed that as the rank and experience of auditors working in private sector increases, their moral outrage also increases. According to the results, Machiavellian characteristic of auditors predicts their moral outrage, which has a negative effect on their moral response in the face of injustices and moral violations. The results of this research can also provide useful information to the legislators of the profession in their plans and actions to improve moral judgments and decisions, consider strengthening the feelings of moral outrage and the powerful role of Machiavellianism on it.
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