A Review of Empirical Studies Assessing Ethical Decision Making in Business

Loe, Terry W.; Ferrell, Linda; Mansfield, Phylis

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“…Reviews have shown that the majority of studies support the idea that the existence of a code of ethics is positively related to ethical decision making and raising awareness of ethical issues (Ford & Richardson, 1994;Loe, Ferrell, & Mansfield, 2000;O'Fallon & Butterfield, 2005). Although some contend that employees need to be familiar with the specific contents and intentions of the code (Wotruba, Chonko, & Loe, 2001), others have found that the mere presence of a code of conduct can have an impact even when people cannot remember the specific contents (Adams, Tashchian, & Shore, 2001).…”

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Organisational Culture and Workplace Corruption in Government Hospitals

Hechanova

Melgar

Falguera

et al. 2014

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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T his study examines corruption attitudes and norms in government hospitals in the Philippines. It tests a culture-building model that advocates communication of desired values, leadership role modelling, employee role modelling, alignment of systems and structures, training and evaluation, and reinforcement. Results reveal components that influence corruption attitudes and norms. Communication predicted individual attitudes or acceptability of corrupt acts. Leadership, systems, and controls predicted the prevalence of corrupt acts. Employee role modelling predicted both acceptability of and the prevalence of corrupt acts. In addition, there is a positive relationship between individual attitudes and organisation norms reinforcing the dyadic relationship between the two.

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Section: Building Organisational Culturementioning

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Organisational Culture and Workplace Corruption in Government Hospitals

Hechanova

Melgar

Falguera

et al. 2014

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…We focus 1 Compare Grossman (1996): "The individual is not a killer, but the group is" (p. 149). 2 See O'Fallon and Butterfield (2005), Loe, Ferrell and Mansfield (2000), Deckers, Falk, Kosse and Szech (2016) for reviews of questionnaire and hypothetical scenario studies, and e.g. Albrecht, Krämer and Szech (2016) and Deckers et al (2016) for evidence from economic settings.…”

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Guilt in voting and public good games

Rothenhäusler

Schweizer

Szech

2018

European Economic Review

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This paper analyzes how moral costs affect individual support of morally difficult group decisions. We study a threshold public good game with moral costs. Motivated by recent empirical findings, we assume that these costs are heterogeneous and consist of three parts.The first one is a standard cost term. The second, shared guilt, decreases in the number of supporters. The third hinges on the notion of being pivotal. We analyze equilibrium predictions, isolate the causal effects of guilt sharing, and compare results to standard utilitarian and nonconsequentialist approaches. As interventions, we study information release, feedback, and fostering individual moral standards.JEL Classification: D02, D03, D23, D63, D82.

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“…As these definitions suggest, ethics at its core is a social construct. Nonetheless, much of the research to date has focused on the relationship of demographic and personality factors to unethical decision-making rather than understanding the social networks that underpin this decisional process (for reviews, see : Craft, 2013;Ford & Richardson, 1994;Loe, Ferrel, & Mansfield, 2000;O'Fallon & Butterfield, 2005). …”

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Ethical Decision-Making: The Role of Self-Monitoring, Future Orientation, and Social Networks

Bon

Volkema

Silva

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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This study examines the influence of individual factors (self-monitoring, temporal orientation) on social networking, and their relationship with unethical decision-making. The study used surveys to measure the unethical intentions and social network data of 129 professionals. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The findings provided evidence that individual factors influence the development of social networks and, along with self-monitoring, the likelihood of unethical decision-making. In particular, being in positions of lower network centrality increased individuals' risk of unethical intention. One explanation stems from the need for high situation control to reduce risk and ensure the success of an event, which only a closed network can provide. However, ethical low self-monitor women were also found to have low centrality, so social networks alone do not explain ethical decision-making. This research represents a step forward in our understanding of ethical decision-making through the adoption of multiple and simultaneous factors, proposing an integrated theory of individual and situational factors influencing unethical options.

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A Review of Empirical Studies Assessing Ethical Decision Making in Business

Cited by 248 publications

References 104 publications

Organisational Culture and Workplace Corruption in Government Hospitals

Organisational Culture and Workplace Corruption in Government Hospitals

Guilt in voting and public good games

Ethical Decision-Making: The Role of Self-Monitoring, Future Orientation, and Social Networks

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