Antecedents To Intention To Commit Corruption In The Perspectives Of Higher Education In Malaysia
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Date
2016-12
Authors
Kassim, Shamshul Anaz
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Corruption is a global concern resulting in financial losses, causing serious damage on the reputation and erodes public confidence involving public and private sectors. Corruption is found to be a serious concern in the world including Malaysia. Therefore, it is critical to remove corruption in the organization and remains important in the organizational research. In order to get to the root of the problem, one possible way is to study the intention to commit corruption. Due to the paucity of empirical research, especially within Malaysian and Asian countries, this study attempts to uncover the antecedents to intention to commit corruption in the perspectives of higher education in Malaysia. Intention to commit corruption begins with attitude. Attitude is the main predictor to the intention to commit corruption. One of the important issues that receives less attention is intention to commit corruption in the perspectives of higher education. This study attempts to uncover how the antecedents of intention to commit corruption, namely attitude towards misuse of power (social dominance orientation and machiavelliansm), subjective norms (perceived social pressure), perceived behavioural control, multiple thinking (knowledge and successful intelligence) and personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) influence the intention to commit corruption. This study also investigate whether attitude towards misuse of power (social dominance orientation and machiavellianism), subjective norms and perceived behavioural control would mediate the relationship between multiple thinking consisting of knowledge and successful intelligence) and personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and the intention to commit corruption. Data were collected through self-administerd survey to the employees (top management, management and professionals) in 20 public universities. A total of 478 sample of employees (top management, management and professionals) were used for the purpose of this study. The findings provided empirical support for the theoretical framework. The results provided evidence that the antecedents of the intention to commit corruption, namely multiple thinking (knowledge and successful intelligence) and personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness) played an important role in influencing employees’ attitude and behavioural intentions in the organization. The main antecedents of intention to commit corruption, namely attitude towards misuse of power, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control had significant influence on employees’ behavioural intentions to commit corruption. This study demonstrated an evidence to support the mediating effect of attitude towards misuse of power, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control between multiple thinking (knowledge and successful intelligence) and personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and the intention to commit corruption. Majority of the employees who have the intention to commit corruption at work is empowered, has opportunity to abuse power and capability to rationalise atttitude. In terms of personality, it is found that a high level of neuroticism, a low level of agreeableness and a low level of conscientiousness is the major contributor to the intention to commit corruption. In addition, that a low level of electronic explicit knowledge enables employees to the intention to commit corruption in the organization. Based on the study’s findings, discussions, limitations, theoretical and practical implications of the study were provided.
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Corruption is a global concern , resulting in financial losses