When Fairness is Not Enough: Impact of Corporate Ethical Values on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Worker Alienation

Sharma, Dheeraj

doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3107-9

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“…Organizations engaging in ethical misbehavior may suffer from negative consequences such as financial or reputational losses (e.g., Lin-Hi and Blumberg 2018). Discrepancies between employees' own ethical values and those of their company may also lead to higher turnover rates, low organizational commitment, and lesser job performance (Hunt and Vitell 1986;Sharma 2018). Ethical behavior promotes a firm's reputation, which strengthens stakeholder relationships (e.g., Walsh et al 2009) and increases employee performance (Hunt and Vitell 1986;Sharma 2018).…”

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Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification

2021

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The ethical behavior prevalent in an organization often determines business success or failure. Much research in the business context has scrutinized ethical behavior, but there are still few insights into its roots; this study furthers this line of inquiry. In line with identity work theory, we examine how employees’ identification with a family business shapes internal ethical decision-making processes. Because it is individuals who engage in decision-making—be it ethical or not—our research perspective centers on the individual level. We followed an inductive, qualitative approach and conducted interviews with 19 employees in seven family businesses. We found that individuals engage in identity work when they identify as individual family firm employees and when they identify with the perceived characteristics of the family firm. These processes of identification, in turn, influence how employees cope with ethical situations. Our findings contribute to ethics and family business research, as well as to identity theory.

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Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification

2021

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“…Lin‐Hi and Müller (2013) suggested that corporations have a responsibility in terms of “avoiding bad” in addition to “doing good.” The creation of an ethical and moral climate is conducive to avoiding this “bad,” such as employee theft. Sharma (2018) corroborated the positive influence of corporate ethical values on employees' ethical behaviors.…”

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Retail employee theft: When retail security alone is not enough

Korgaonkar

Becerra

Mangleburg

et al. 2021

Psychology and Marketing

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Retailers and local governments lose revenue, and inevitably consumers pay higher prices due to theft. In 2018, the amount lost to employee theft per incident was $1361. This is in comparison to the amount per incident lost to shoplifting of $302. Despite this difference, the scholarly attention in marketing on retail employee theft is sparse. The current study aims to fill this gap. The framework developed and tested is based on routine activity theory, the theory of reasoned action and findings from the retailing and management literature. Data were collected from a national sample of 665 retail employees. The framework simultaneously examines the influence of attitudes, antecedents, and social norms regarding stealing on employee intentions to steal and the influence of a moral compass and organizational commitment on attitudes toward stealing and intentions to steal. Results indicate that attitudes toward stealing are driven by the availability of suitable targets, the absence of guardianship, and a moral compass. Behavioral intentions to steal are influenced by attitudes toward stealing, suitable targets (but indirectly), and the employee's level of employment.

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“…For example, Marta, et al [46] found that corporate ethical climate with positive ethical values may increase employee's ethical intention. It may even positively affect employees' organizational commitment [47,16] and managers' perception of the importance of ethics and social and responsibility [48].…”

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“…Prior literature reveals that ethical environment has significant impact on people's decision making. Sharma [16], for example, found that corporate ethical values had a positive relationship with employees' commitment. Alleyne [17] evaluates how corporate ethical values positively affect nonpublic accountants to report wrongdoings.…”

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Machiavellianism and Corporate Ethical Values as Determinants of Accountants' Ethical Decision Making

Pulungan

Fitriningrum

2019

JRAAM

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Tanggal masuk 24-05-2019 This study aims to evaluate ethical environment may moderate the negative effect of Machiavellianism towards accountants' ethical decision making. Questionnaires are distributed to accountants work in various company in Jakarta. The study finds accountants with High Machs are more likely to take unethical actions, while corporate ethical values (CEV) may encourage accountant to act more ethically. However, CEV does not reduce the negative effect of Machiavellianism towards accountants' ethical decision making.

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When Fairness is Not Enough: Impact of Corporate Ethical Values on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Worker Alienation

Cited by 31 publications

References 82 publications

Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification

Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms: The Role of Employee Identification

Retail employee theft: When retail security alone is not enough

Machiavellianism and Corporate Ethical Values as Determinants of Accountants' Ethical Decision Making

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