Abstract: Unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) refer to employee’s unethical behavior for the benefits of the organization. In the past, many researches take it as the result of positive social exchange relationship and organizational identification. However, since that UPB is an unethical behavior in itself, some factors which had proved can influence unethical behavior should also influence UPB. In this paper, we explore the relationship between ethical climate and UPB, and the mediating effect of moral justification. We use longitudinal way to collect data from several organizations at two different time. The empirical results of 405 samples showed that egoism-, benevolence-ethical climate has a positive effect on moral justification and UPB respectively, principled-ethical climate has a negative effect on moral justification and UPB. Moral justification has a positive effect on UPB. Moral justification has a mediating effect between ethical climate (egoism-, benevolence-, principled-) and UPB. This research has several theoretic contributions and management inspirations. It is the first research to discuss the influence of ethical climate on UPB, and the results can expand the antecedent variables of UPB. We also find the mediating effect of moral justification between ethical climate and UPB, so it reveals moral disengagement is an important psychology formation of UPB. It also reveals that benevolence-ethical climate has “dark” side, and UPB has some instrumental motivations. For managers it is necessary to build principled-ethical climate, reduce egoism- ethical climate, and care about the dark side of benevolence-ethical climate. Monitoring and prevent individuals’ propensity to moral justification is also very important.

Key words: unethical pro-organizational behavior, ethical climate, moral justification

摘要： 与纯粹的私利性非伦理行为不同，亲组织非伦理行为是个体为了组织利益而实施的非伦理行为。探讨了伦理氛围对亲组织非伦理行为的影响，以及道德辩护在其中的中介作用。实证研究结果发现，自利型伦理氛围、关怀型伦理氛围分别对亲组织非伦理行为具有正向影响，规则型伦理氛围对亲组织非伦理行为具有负向影响，道德辩护分别在三种伦理氛围与亲组织非伦理行为关系间具有部分中介作用

关键词: 亲组织非伦理行为, 伦理氛围, 道德辩护