20.500.12556/RUL-176876 Predicting whistleblowing intention the role of work locus of control, fear of retaliation, and organizational commitment Whistleblowing is the process by which employees report observed irregularities within the organization. Irregularities can be reported internally using reporting mechanisms within the organization or externally by contacting appropriate authorities or the media. This study explored the role that internal and external work locus of control, fear of retaliation, and organizational commitment play in reporting irregularities in the workplace among employees in Serbia. The Prosocial Organizational Behavior Model was used as the theoretical foundation. The convenience sample of 220 adults (Mage = 40.77 ± 12.87; 65.9% women) was recruited from the general population. First, we tested whether employees are more likely to report irregularities internally than externally. Then, we tested whether we could predict internal and external whistleblowing intention based on internal and external work locus of control, fear of retaliation, and organizational commitment after controlling for demographic variables. Our analysis revealed that internal whistleblowing intention is more pronounced than external one. After accounting for the demographic variables, we also found that internal work locus of control and organizational commitment positively predict internal whistleblowing intention, while fear of retaliation negatively. Finally, we found that fear of retaliation and internal locus of control predict external whistleblowing intention positively after controlling for demographic variables. One possible implication of this study is that increasing organizational commitment, fostering an internal locus of control, and ensuring employee safety may encourage whistleblowing; however, the direction of influence may be reversed, or the third variable that we did not include in our study may play a role. whistleblowing locus of control fear of retaliation reporting wrongdoing irregularities in the workplace industrial and organizational psychology retaliation fear organizational commitment organizacijska psihologija žvižganje lokus kontrole maščevanje strah organizacijska pripadnost true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-12-12 10:45:51 2025-12-12 10:45:57 2025-12-25 03:36:42 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 547-574 no. 4 Vol. 18 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 159.9:331.109 2334-7287 10.19090/pp.v18i4.2596 261156611 Popov_Predicting_whistleblowing_intention_the_role_of_work_locus_of_control,_fear_of_retaliation,_and_organizational_commitment.pdf Popov_Predicting_whistleblowing_intention_the_role_of_work_locus_of_control,_fear_of_retaliation,_and_organizational_commitment.pdf 1 CBAA790B5DD23D87F22CE7700A6BF1B3 31a3273667595dc97f93d10009f736dc61a2a6850319899615d6574a11502503 8fef0dad-d73f-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223512 https://primenjena.psihologija.ff.uns.ac.rs/index.php/pp/article/view/2596 1 fa3db6bf-d73e-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223510 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0