Survey Data on Amoral Management and Creative Unethicality in Chinese R&D Employees

Lei Ren's dataset on figshare contains survey results from a three-stage study of 249 R&D employees from three intelligent manufacturing companies in eastern China. The data was uploaded in 2026 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. It examines the relationship between amoral management, moral decoupling, and creative unethical behavior under varying job creativity requirements.

Use Cases

• Testing mediation models based on the described relationship between amoral management and creative unethicality via moral decoupling.
• Analyzing moderation effects based on the described role of job creativity requirements.
• Investigating leadership influences on employee ethics based on the described focus on amoral management.
• Cross-cultural organizational studies based on the described sample from Chinese manufacturing firms.

Strengths

• Data is from a three-stage study of 249 employees, suggesting a structured collection process.
• Explicitly focuses on a specific, under-researched concept: creative unethicality.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Data may reflect geographic and industry bias inherent to the sample from three Chinese manufacturing firms.

Provenance

Source

Lei Ren via figshare.

Collection Method

Three-stage survey investigation of R&D employees.

Time Range

Study period is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 17:39:51.

Geography

Eastern China (three intelligent manufacturing companies).