• DocumentCode
    3118141
  • Title

    Whistle blowing intention in relation to perceived organizational support, attitude to whistle blow, channel of communication among public servant

  • Author

    Kamarunzaman, Nur Zafifa ; Zawawi, Azlyn Ahmad ; Hussin, Zaliha Hj. ; Campbell, James K.

  • Author_Institution
    Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    285
  • Lastpage
    289
  • Abstract
    The aims of this paper are two folds, to identify as to whether intention to whistle blow exists; and to ascertain the relationship between perceived organizational support, channel of communication, and the attitude of those who with intention to blow the whistle. The study has undertaken population study in one of the Northern Region´s public office which consists of 400 populations in total. At least 204 public servants were involved in this research as the respondents. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire. The findings indicated that there exists intention to whistle blow on the part of the within the organization (mean=4.059). Further analysis discovered that there are positive relationships between all variables with regards to the intention to blow the whistle. Channel of communication is the most dominant variable that drives the respondents to act morally in the organization.
  • Keywords
    Context; Educational institutions; Ethics; Face; Organizations; Psychology; Attitudes to Whistle Blow; Channel of Communication; Malaysia; Perceived Organizational Support; Public Servants; Whistle Blowing Intention; Whistle blowing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications (ISBEIA), 2012 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Bandung, Indonesia
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1632-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISBEIA.2012.6422888
  • Filename
    6422888