Fairness, Feelings, and Ethical Decision- Making: Consequences of Violating Community Standards of Fairness

Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Gibson, David R.

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“…When individuals misplace their trust in others, they become vulnerable and are more likely to be exploited. Scholars have identified a number of psychological factors that influence unethical behavior (Gaspar & Schweitzer, 2013;Gino & Bazerman, 2009;Gino, Norton, & Ariely, 2010;Gino & Pierce, 2009;Gino, Schweitzer, Mead, & Ariely, 2011;Mead, Baumeister, Gino, Schweitzer, & Ariely, 2009;Moran & Schweitzer, 2008;Ordóñez, Schweitzer, Galinsky, & Bazerman, 2009;Ruedy & Schweitzer, 2010;Schweitzer, DeChurch, & Gibson, 2005;Schweitzer & Gibson, 2008;Schweitzer, Ordóñez, & Douma, 2004;Wiltermuth, Newman, & Raj, 2015). However, this rich literature has overlooked the critical role of trust in enabling unethical behavior.…”

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Trust promotes unethical behavior: excessive trust, opportunistic exploitation, and strategic exploitation

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Schweitzer

2015

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Trust is critical for our cooperation and effective working relationships, but trust also enables exploitation and unethical behavior. Prior trust research has disproportionately focused on the benefits of trust, even though some of the most egregious unethical behaviors occur because of misplaced trust. Targets of exploitation misplace their trust, because they rely on the wrong cues and are exploited by people who either opportunistically or strategically take advantage of their trust. We call for future work to explore the critical link between trust and unethical behavior. Disciplines Finance and Financial Management | Social and Behavioral SciencesThis journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/fnce_papers/91Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2614633 Yip & Schweitzer 2 AbstractTrust is critical for our cooperation and effective working relationships, but trust also enables

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Section: How Trust Enables Unethical Behaviormentioning

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Trust promotes unethical behavior: excessive trust, opportunistic exploitation, and strategic exploitation

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Schweitzer

2015

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“…This may be especially important in teaching ethics to accounting students, as emotions have a direct impact on the process of ethical decision making (Schweitzer and Gibson, 2008;Connelly et al, 2004). Increased cognitive ethical development does not necessarily translate into increased ethical intentions, and the moderating variable may be emotions (Thorne, 2001; Gaudine and Thorne, 2001;Henrik 2008).…”

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“…In addition, this behaviour was found to provide significant psychological benefits to the perpetrator including greater satisfaction and happiness, and reduced anger. Schweitzer and Gibson (2008) also found that perceptions of justifiability mediated the relationship.…”

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“…There is also a need to further explore the concept of justice and how different factors impact on subjective assessments of justice and motivate people to take action. As noted in this thesis, judgements of fairness have been found to have major implications for social systems (Schweitzer & Gibson, 2008). Perceived violations of fairness provoke reactions such as increased absenteeism (Hulin, 1991), stealing, and vandalism (Folger, 1993;Greenberg, 1990Greenberg, , 1993.…”

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“…The impact of a sense of unfairness on subsequent ethical decision making has been found to have a profound impact. Research (Schweitzer & Gibson, 2008) considering the consequences of violating community standards of fairness found that explanations for actions that violated community standards of fairness led to intentions to behave unethically. In addition, this behaviour was found to provide significant psychological benefits to the perpetrator including greater satisfaction and happiness, and reduced anger.…”

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Much research has been undertaken since the 1960s to determine how people make ethical decisions. Business schools around the world have also dedicated increased efforts to ethics education since the late 1980s. However, the research fails to support the effectiveness of this effort in preventing or reducing unethical outcomes in business. The majority of existing business ethics research makes two fundamental assumptions: firstly, that 'bad' people do 'bad' things owing to: a lack of character; bad values; or greed; and, secondly, that ethical decision making is a rational, cognitive process that can be taught.In this thesis emerging research in the fields of criminology, social psychology and neuro-cognitive science is built on, questioning these two assumptions. It is shown that ethical decision making is most often a subconscious process with higher order reasoning not engaged until after the event. It is also shown that in trying to understand our own and others' behaviour, we overestimate the importance of dispositional qualities and under estimate the importance of situational and systemic factors.Research indicates the key factors in unethical behaviour to be: self-delusion; perceptual biases; and ethical blindness linked to learned justifications that neutralise moral intent. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to understand why people of good character and without ill intent create unethical outcomes in business and how moral intention, perceptual blindness and moral neutralisations interact and impact upon this social psychology and neuro-cognitive science. The aim is to develop a model that shows how, in theory, ethical outcomes are created. Drawing on a social constructivist paradigm a multiple case study research design utilising qualitative data is determined to be the most appropriate method to test this theoretical model. Participants in the research were drawn from people at Board or senior executive levels who had either been charged with corporate crimes or who had been a whistle-blower in such crimes.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the aim of encouraging participants to reflect on and describe the phenomenon they had experienced. The theoretical model was used as a starting point for these interviews to explore the events from the subjects' perspective. These interviews were then supplemented and triangulated by an analysis of corporate documents, media reports and, where possible, court reports.The data gathered from the research was then coded and analysed for patterns to enable

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Fairness, Feelings, and Ethical Decision- Making: Consequences of Violating Community Standards of Fairness

Abstract: unethical behavior, fairness, deception, emotions, community standards, justification,

Cited by 147 publications

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Trust promotes unethical behavior: excessive trust, opportunistic exploitation, and strategic exploitation

Trust promotes unethical behavior: excessive trust, opportunistic exploitation, and strategic exploitation

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Why Good People Do Bad Things in Business

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