보복에 대한 두려움과 윤리적 리더십이 내부고발의도에 미치는 영향: 규제지향 윤리프로그램의 조절효과

The purpose of this study is to investigate fear of retaliation and ethical leadership on whistle-blowing intention of employees. The other purpose of this research is to identify moderating effect of compliance-oriented ethical program on the relationship between fear of retaliation or ethical leadership and whistle-blowing intention. Empirical study of this research used 121 employees’ questionnaires and hierarchical moderated regression analysis to test our hypotheses. Research findings are as follows. First, the ethical leadership had significantly positive impact on the whistle-blowing intention, whereas the fear of retaliation was not associated with the whistle-blowing intention. Second, compliance-oriented ethical program in organization significantly moderated the relationship between fear to retaliation and whistle-blowing intention, although it showed some different pattern of relationship from suggested hypothesis of this research. On the other the moderating effect of compliance-oriented ethical program on the relationship between ethical leadership and whistle-blowing intention was not revealed. Finally, we discussed some implications and limitations of this study.