The impact of hotel employees’ ethical awareness on their whistleblowing intentions: The role of cultural values as a moderator

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1 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University of Sadat City, Egypt

2 Faculty of Commerce, University of Sadat City, Egypt

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This research assesses the level of ethical awareness, whistleblowing intentions, and cultural values of five-star hotel employees.  It also explores the relationship between ethical awareness and the dimensions of whistleblowing intentions concerning the moderating role of cultural values. The researchers adopted a sampling method to collect data for the research. SPSS and structural equation modelling PLS were used to analyze the data obtained. The findings indicate that there is a high perception of the research variables. Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between ethical awareness and external, anonymous, and internal whistleblowing intentions, respectively. Moreover, cultural values moderate the ethical awareness effect through internal and anonymous whistleblowing intentions only. Finally, using a unique conceptual framework, our findings provide a significant contribution to the literature highlighting the critical influence of ethical awareness on employees' intentions to report misconduct.

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