Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Other Factors on Perception of Ethical Behavior of Peers

Joseph, Jacob; Berry, Kevin; Deshpande, Satish P.

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“…Such studies must control for social desirability bias. Second, our results give some credibility to researchers who assert that ethical behavior of co-workers or a hybrid of ethical behavior of self and coworkers should be used as the dependent variable instead of just ethical behavior of self (Andreoli and Lefkowitz 2009;Joseph et al 2009). This is especially true if the study has not controlled for social desirability bias.…”

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“…Our research focuses on examining factors that impact ethical behavior of Chinese SOE employees. Previous research has shown that an important determinant of ethical behavior of employees is the organization's ethical climate (Joseph et al 2009;Peterson 2002;Deshpande et al 2000). Martin and Cullen (2006, p. 177) in a meta-analytic review of the literature on ethical climate state that the ethical climate of an organization ''is best understood as a group of prescribed climates reflecting the organizational procedures, policies, and practices with moral consequences.…”

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Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

Deshpande

2011

J Bus Ethics

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Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

Deshpande

2011

J Bus Ethics

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“…On the contrary, studies that have examined the effects of this component of emotional intelligence on ethical beliefs and behaviours have found no effects. Joseph et al (2009) found that UOE was unrelated to perceptions of the ethical behaviour of oneself and peers (unlike OEA which was positively related). Fu (2014) also found that UOE was not related to the ethical behaviour of employees (unlike ROE which was positively related).…”

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Emotional Intelligence and Consumer Ethics: The Mediating Role of Personal Moral Philosophies

Chowdhury

2015

J Bus Ethics

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Research on the antecedents of consumers' ethical beliefs has mainly examined cognitive variables and has (with a few exceptions) neglected the relationships among affective variables and consumer ethics. However, research in moral psychology indicates that moral emotions have a significant role in ethical decision-making (Haidt, Handbook of affective sciences, 2003). Thus, the ability to experience, perceive and regulate emotions should influence consumers' ethical decision-making. These abilities, which are components of emotional intelligence (Davies et al., J Person Soc Psychol, 1998), are examined as antecedents to consumers' ethical beliefs in this study. Five hundred Australian consumers participated in this study by completing an online questionnaire that included measures of emotional intelligence, consumers' ethical beliefs and personal moral philosophies (idealism and relativism, Forsyth, J Person Soc Psychol, 1980). Results demonstrate that the ability to appraise and express emotions in oneself is directly negatively related to beliefs regarding actively benefiting from illegal actions as a consumer, passively benefiting at the expense of the seller and actively benefiting from questionable but legal actions as a consumer. The ability to appraise and express emotions in oneself is directly positively related to beliefs regarding 'doing-good' (pro-social) actions. The ability to appraise and recognise emotions in others is also directly positively related to beliefs regarding 'doing-good' actions as well as pro-environmental buying actions. The effects of the different components of emotional intelligence on consumers' ethical beliefs are (in most cases) mediated by personal moral philosophies. This study demonstrates the relationship between emotional intelligence and consumer ethics and highlights the interplay of affect and cognition in consumers' ethical decision-making.

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“…Survey findings have confirmed the link between emotional intelligence and ethical awareness for undergraduate students (Joseph, Berry, & Deshpande, 2009;Mesmer-Magnus, Viswesvaran, Deshpande, & Joseph, 2010). During critical moments, the emotional centre dominates and makes rational behaviour more difficult to achieve.…”

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Moral Reasoning, Academic Dishonesty, and Business Students

Bélanger

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2012

IJHE

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This study links moral reasoning, academic dishonesty, and business students. Undergraduate business students (N = 1357) from eight Ontario (Canada) universities responded to a survey to express their perceptions and expectations of their academic environment and the variables that can help them to understand what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Results revealed these emerging adults welcome some moral guidance but they are not inclined to encumber themselves with too many rules. Their main expectations revolve around self-confidence, independence of thought and action, acceptance of responsibility for themselves, and what academic dishonesty involves. The authors discuss these findings in the context of moral development of emerging adults who are challenged to achieve identity coherence and ethical judgment. For their part, business schools have the obligation to offer enriching academic experiences and train values-based leaders without preaching 'morality'.

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Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Other Factors on Perception of Ethical Behavior of Peers

Abstract: emotional intelligence, ethical behavior, ethical conduct,

Cited by 36 publications

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Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

Emotional Intelligence and Consumer Ethics: The Mediating Role of Personal Moral Philosophies

Moral Reasoning, Academic Dishonesty, and Business Students

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