Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Canadian Social Science, cilt.11, sa.6, ss.48-59, 2015 (Hakemli Dergi)
An emerging stream of work on money can be found in
the management and organizational behavior literature;
however, individuals’ attitude toward money (whether
loving or hating it) is a relatively new concept to wait
to be explored by scholars. Generally, growing body
of literature has to researches investigating the positive
side of money. Nevertheless, in this study we aim to
explain not only positive, but also negative side of money
differentiating individuals very much and very little
fond of money and investigate the relationship between
love of money, machiavellian personality and unethical
behavior of individuals. Focusing individuals’ passion for
money or wealth, we also purpose to illuminate the issue
whether individual groups being very much and very little
fond of money represent different level of machiavellian
personality and unethical behavior. In addition, we
investigate how differentiates unethical behavior in terms
of individual’s machiavellianism level. Demographic
variables are also within the scope of this research, so
individuals’ attitudes toward money, machiavellian
personality and unethical behavior are explained in terms
of demographic characteristics. Therefore, we gathered
data from 360 MBA students and conducted hierarchical
regression as well as ordinal logistic regression analyses
in order to verify our hypotheses. Results indicated that
machiavellianism was partially mediated the relationship
between love of money and unethical behavior.
Implication showed that individuals being very much fond
of money were 5,87 times likely to represent upper level
machiavellian personality than individuals being very little fond of money. Furthermore, individuals being very much
fond of money were 3.58 times likely to exhibit upper
level unethical behavior than individuals being very little
fond of money. Higher degree machiavellian individuals
2.28 times likely to exhibit upper level unethical
behavior than lower degree machiavellian individuals.
Moreover, the evidence from the research represents that
individuals not receiving ethics lesson were 2.05 times
likely to exhibit upper level machiavellian personality
than individuals receiving ethics lesson. Also, it can be
comment males are 2.38 times likely to represent upper
level unethical behavior than females.