• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.205-216
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of organizational citizenship behavior on unethical pro-organization behavior considering two sub-dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior such as citizenship behavior for individual and citizenship behavior for organization. In addition to this, this study was to identify of the moderating effect of machiavellism. Design/methodology/approach - This study collected 269 sample questionnaires from employees who are working for Korean companies. To examine the hypotheses, this study used hierarchical regression analysis. Findings - First, results showed that there is a significant positive effect of citizenship behavior for organization on unethical pro-organization behavior, but citizenship behavior for individual did not have any significant effect on unethical pro-organization behavior. Second, same with the previous results, machiavellism only had its significant moderating effect on the relationship between citizenship behavior for organization and unethical pro-organizational behavior, not on citizenship behavior for individual. The moderating effect strengthened the positive relationship. Research implications or Originality - Although organizational citizenship behavior and unethical pro-organization behavior are studied many times, but there is no research examining the relationship between these two concepts. these two concepts share the figure that these behaviors are pro-organizational. The only differences between the two is ethical or not. So, this study identified the relationship and moderating effect of machiavellism. In doing so, this study provided novel implications for the researchers of this filed.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.101-116
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to identify the personality type and stress coping method of students of Dept. dental hygiene students and relationship between them. Second purpose of this study was to suggest the good and useful method of stress coping. Data was drawn from a convenient sample of 350 and 3rd year students of the department of dental hygiene, some college located in Kyung-Ki Province. The results were analyzed with SPSS 10.0 and the conclusion is as follow: 1. The average of Machiavellism type is 3.30, which indicates that most of the students has a middle type(80%). In the A/B type, most of the students has B type(46.7%). In the score of externality and internality, externality(62.6%) is higher than internality(20.3%) 2. As a result of investigating how they coped with stress, the direct coping was utilized most and the physical was utilized least. 3. In the relation between the personality type and stress coping method, non-Machiavellism type has a statistically significant difference, in the direct coping and destructive coping.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

The purposes of this study were to examine effects of individual's ethics on corporation ethics and corporation ethics management and perception for corporation ethics management innovation system, and to compare consumers' and entrepreneurs' perceptions toward innovation system for ethics management in fashion industry. The subject used for this study were 260 subjects (117 consumer and 143 entrepreneurs). For data analysis, descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlations, Cronbach's alpha, regression, and t-test were used. As the results, first, ethic values on idealism and machiavellism significantly influenced on the business ethics. Business ethics also affected on business ethics management. In addition, business ethics management influenced on perception for ethics management innovation system. Finally, there were significant differences between consumers and entrepeneurs on perceptions toward innovation system for ethics management. Based on these results, prevention marketing strategies of counterfeit goods would be provided.