Institutional criminology is emerging subjects need great attention due to unethical behavior at institutional or organisational set up. It is observed that in many of university set up the rule makers plays vital role. In many of the institution they exercises under the theory planned behviour only to discriminate the juniors, students. It is observable that the officers schools/institutions and departments adopt planned behaviour for discriminatory tactics in even the routinised universally truth as well as for role escaping, or for proving role and knowledge security. Such adaptation symbolises only lack of wisdom and academic laxity and vacuum. I found these attribute enforces the workplace rule maker to adopt even academic lie behavior, which further transforms the toxic workplace in most of higher educational institutions. As the ethical sense of such officers percolates down to any levels bellow their level, can we not link that the TPB of an organisation to organisational criminality or toxicity? Since, 21st century is all about the truth and purity, transparency, honesty; can we not think institutional behavioral reform? In this context I a set questions as follow-
1. Could anybody observe applications of theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in his workplace?
2. What method of observation, criteria can we deploy in understanding TPB in organisational/institutional set up?
3. Does any body can examine the linkages of TPB with institutional criminality, and students behaviour?
4. How can we stop institutional criminality and discrimination exercised by petty rule makers in higher educational set up/institutions, or in universities of the world?
sometimes human beings behave the way they do as an expression of previous experiences. it could be a form of defense mechanism to avoid feelings of frustration. However, this is expressed differently by different people depending on the source of the frustration.
TPB Measure – Perceived behavioral control
- Delay discounting
- Ethical clearance
- Protection of data
Yseult Freeney and Michael O’Connell (2009), Psychological, Economic and Academic Predictors of the Intention to Leave School Early among a Sample of Irish Students, Combat Poverty Agency, Working Paper 09/06, ISBN: 978-1-905485-92-5
December 2009
Dear Barman,
My suggestion is that you try and elicit to see if such behaviour exists in any institution that you wish to study. These are called indirect measures, should be done in most studies involving TPB.
Such elicitation study help reveal unarticulated thoughts and this can be done through a semi-structured questionnaire and interview. It is part qualitative and quantitative. You will most likely get a common recurring theme from which you can start building up your TPB constructs.
You need to clearly define the intention that you wish to study. For example, perhaps you want to see how people in an institution violate a certain rule. You then need to analyze their attitude, subjective norm and perceived control.
Remember that planning is extremely important in any TPB study. Your results will most likely be flawed if you don't plan way in advance to deal with any obstacles during the study (for example, you might need to have extra questions if you feel that the Cronbach alpha is low for a construct).
Hope this helps.
Rabin
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