Consequences of perceiving organization members as a unified entity: Stronger attraction, but greater blame for member transgressions.

Effron, Daniel A.; Kakkar, Hemant; Cable, Daniel M.

doi:10.1037/apl0000992

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“…The relationships among our explanatory variables and our dependent variables may not have involved causality as we statistically analyzed explanatory variables (as per A. Chen & Treviño, 2022; Effron et al, 2022). Further, our sample sizes were generally moderate.…”

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“…Negative online information about that firm decreased participant attitudes toward the firm and lowered intention to buy from the firm. Another study found that negative user evaluations posted online (about a fictitious beverage company) had much stronger effects on the brand of the company than positive evaluations (Eberle et al, 2013).…”

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Doxing, political affiliation, and type of information: Effects on suspicion, perceived similarity, and hiring-related judgments.

Roth,

Bobko,

Shan

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Researchers have begun to focus on the influence of political affiliation in organizations. In this context, we investigated how doxing (i.e., using social media to post information online with malintent) influences hiring-related decisions. Based on the integration of a political affiliation and state suspicion model, we investigated how a dox containing different types of information (affirming a political party affiliation vs. providing derogatory/negative information about an opposing party) and political party affiliation similarity influenced hiring-related perceptions of job applicants. Given doxing's characteristics, we expanded the "decision space" to include effects about expected organizational image and expected retaliation. In Study 1, we found that the type of information and party similarity influenced suspicion of the applicant and perceived similarity with the applicant, whereas doxing only influenced suspicion. In turn, suspicion and perceived similarity predicted expected task performance and organizational image, and exploratory analyses suggested an interactive effect of these variables. Suspicion also predicted expected retaliation from individuals outside the organization. In Study 2, we confirmed that doxing was related to suspicion as well as the interactive effect of information type and party similarity. We explain that interaction using the notion of symbolic threat. In both studies, the effects of type of information and party similarity were pervasive. Our results support the similarity-attraction paradigm and a model of political affiliation. Expanding relevant theories to include suspicion helps better understand politically related judgments and the additional outcomes of expected organizational image and retaliation.

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Doxing, political affiliation, and type of information: Effects on suspicion, perceived similarity, and hiring-related judgments.

Roth,

Bobko,

Shan

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…After reading each job posting, participants rated the organization on its perceived trustworthiness (morality) by indicating the extent to which the terms trustworthy , honest , sincere , and ethical (α = .94; Effron et al, 2022; Leach et al, 2007) described that company on 5-point scales where 1 = not at all and 5 = extremely . In order to mask the research question, participants also rated items assessing the other two fundamental evaluative dimensions of warmth and competence (Leach et al, 2007) but only perceived trustworthiness effects were hypothesized.…”

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Ambiguity in advertised compensation: Recruiting implications of nominal compliance with pay transparency legislation.

Kuhn

2024

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Pursuant to legislative mandates the proportion of job postings that include wage and salary information has rapidly increased. However, many organizations comply by advertising very broad salary ranges. Here, we examine how the width of a pay range influences prospective applicants' perceptions. Although in other contexts people often exhibit a preference for vaguely specified gains, we draw from decision and signaling theories to hypothesize negative reactions to highly ambiguous pay ranges and test them in three preregistered experiments. In Study 1, business students evaluate a job posting with the width of the salary range manipulated between subjects. Study 2 tests for moderating effects of ambiguity explanations using a within-subjects manipulation of pay range width counterbalanced across two job postings and a sample of college graduates with relevant work experience. In Study 3, a diverse sample of recent job seekers predict a salary offer for a hiring vignette in which both the extent of ambiguity in the advertised pay range and the chosen candidate's qualifications are manipulated; their qualitative impressions of the organization are also analyzed. Results provide converging evidence for modal aversion to high ambiguity resulting from negative effects on perceived organizational trustworthiness and skewed predictions of salary offers. Practical implications of this aspect of pay transparency are discussed, as well as broader theoretical implications for understanding outcome ambiguity effects in domains where decision makers vary in their beliefs about underlying reasons for vagueness in communicated information.

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Moral inconsistency

Effron¹,

Helgason²

2023

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Consequences of perceiving organization members as a unified entity: Stronger attraction, but greater blame for member transgressions.

Abstract: Consequences of perceiving organization members as a unified entity: Stronger attraction, but greater blame for member transgressions.

Cited by 3 publications

References 85 publications

Doxing, political affiliation, and type of information: Effects on suspicion, perceived similarity, and hiring-related judgments.

Doxing, political affiliation, and type of information: Effects on suspicion, perceived similarity, and hiring-related judgments.

Ambiguity in advertised compensation: Recruiting implications of nominal compliance with pay transparency legislation.

Moral inconsistency

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