Bad apples, bad cases, and bad barrels: meta-analytic evidence about sources of unethical decisions at work.

By Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, David A. Harrison, Linda Klebe Treviño. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Whatever It Takes to Win: Rivalry Increases Unethical Behavior (2016, background): “Existing research has identified a range of factors that can contribute to unethical behavior (for a review see Kish-Gephart et al., 2010), as well as the related construct of organizational misconduct, which includes organization-level unethical behavior as well as behavior that may be less…”
The Influence of Servant Leadership on Restaurant Employee Engagement (2014, background): “Research suggested that organizational leaders are critical in establishing and creating ethical cultures that produce productive, loyal, and engaged employees (Darcy 2010; Kish-Gephart et al. 2010).”
Short Horizons and Tempting Situations: Lack of Continuity to Our Future Selves Leads to Unethical Decision Making and Behavior (2012, background): “Moreover, many antecedents of unethicality correlated more strongly with behavior than intentions (Kish-Gephart et al., 2010).”
Cheating more when the spoils are split (2011, background): “…likely to occur in organizations that have a code of conduct than it is in those without such codes of conduct (Hegarty & Sims, 1979; Izraeli, 1988; Kish-Gephart et al., 2010; McCabe, Treviño, & Butterfield, 1996; Treviño, Butterfield, & McCabe, 1998; but see Brief, Dukerich, Brown, and Brett…”
Egoistic norms, organizational identification, and the perceived ethicality of unethical pro-organizational behavior: A moral maturation perspective (2020, background): “In addition, prior research has found a relationship between age and ethical judgments (e.g. Chiu, 2003; Peterson et al., 2001) and unethical choices (Kish-Gephart et al., 2010).”
The Impact of Ethical Ideologies, Moral Intensity, and Social Context on Sales-Based Ethical Reasoning (2011, background): “Despite this wealth of information, more comprehensive research is needed to investigate the working together of individual, issue-related, and contextual influences on the ethical reasoning process (Kish-Gephart et al., 2010).”
Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking (2012, background): “, obedience to authority, not anticipating consequences) as major sources for unethical conduct (Kish-Gephart et al. 2010).”
Comparing models of counterproductive workplace behaviors: The Five-Factor Model and the Dark Triad (2015, methodology): “A meta-analysis by Kish-Gephart et al. (2010) suggests that personality is an area of individual differences that may be important for understanding who may engage in CWBs. Personality traits have been linked to a number of problems (Hopwood et al., 2009; Mullins-Sweatt & Widiger, 2010; Ozer &…”
Successful Psychopaths: Are They Unethical Decision-Makers and Why? (2012, background): “Unethical decision-making (also referred to as unethical intention; Kish-Gephart et al. 2010) is conceptualized as an individual’s endorsement or willingness to engage in moral- or norm-violating behavior, often in response to an ambiguous situation where there is no obvious correct or incorrect…”
The moderating effect of religiosity on ethical behavioural intentions: An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour to Pakistani bank employees (2017, background): “It has been argued that religious practices strengthen faith, that faith helps people maintain moral standards and that high levels of individual morality make an overall ethical social setting (Winchester, 2008) – what has come to be known as the “good barrel” hypothesis (Singhapakdi et al., 2013; ”