How organizational justice impacts supervisor bottom-line mentality? The role of the institutionalization of ethics.

ETHICS; SUPERVISORS; INFORMATION theory; SOCIAL processes; ORGANIZATIONAL justice; INFORMATION processing

The purpose of our research is to enhance the literature on supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM). Consistent with extant research, we position BLM as a problematic and undesirable attitude. We adopt a multi-methods approach and findings from an experimental-causal-chain study and a multi-source field study demonstrate that POJ impacts supervisor BLM via the institutionalization of ethics. To explain our findings, we leverage social information processing theory to argue perceived organizational justice (POJ) impacts supervisor BLM. Our rationale is that POJ creates workplace conditions that construct the belief that ethics are being institutionalized in the organization. In turn, once the institutionalization of ethics occurs, this reduces the development of BLM within supervisors. We argue that the institutionalization of ethics conveys that the sole pursuit of financial outcomes at the expense of other organizational members is viewed as an inappropriate attitude. We conclude by discussing implications, limitations, and future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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