TY  - JOUR
T1  - Different hats, different obligations: Plural occupational identities and situated moral judgments.
JF  - Academy of Management Journal
Y1  - 2012
A1  - Leavitt,Keith
A1  - Reynolds,Scott J
A1  - Barnes,Christopher M
A1  - Schilpzand,Pauline
A1  - Hannah,Sean T
KW  - Management
AB  - It is well understood that moral identity substantially influences moral judgments. However, occupational identities are also replete with moral content, and individuals may have multiple occupational identities within a given work role (e.g., engineer-manager). Consequently, we apply the lenses of moral universalism and moral particularism to categorize occupational identities and explore their moral prescriptions. We present and test a model of occupational identities as implicitly-held and dynamically-activated knowledge structures, cued by context and containing associated content about the absolute and/or relationship-dependent moral obligations owed by the actor to stakeholders. Results from one field study and two situated experiments with dual-occupation individuals indicate that moral obligations embedded in occupational identities influence actors’ work-role moral judgments in a predictable and meaningful manner.
VL  - 55
U2  - a
U4  - 50847703040
ID  - 50847703040
ER  -