Finally, this study and others have provided a great deal of information
about the relationships between the propensity to morally disengage and
many types of unethical behavior relevant to organizations as reported by
the self or by employees’ supervisors and coworkers. The linking here,
in Study 5, of the propensity to morally disengage with supervisor and
coworker reports of unethicalwork behavior is particularly impressive as it
is likely a conservative test of what employees actually do (because many
unethical behaviors are intentionally hidden, especially from authority
figures). Nonetheless, future studies that link the propensity to morally
disengage with objectively measured subsequent unethical behavior in
actual work contexts would be particularly valuable.