A Managerial In-Basket Study of the Impact of Trait Emotions on Ethical Choice

By Shane Connelly, Whitney B. Helton-Fauth, Michael D. Mumford. 2004

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A Review of the Empirical Ethical Decision-Making Literature: 2004–2011 (2013, background): “Connelly et al. 2004 JBE Emotions/mood Active emotions accounted for greater variance than passive emotions in ethical choices.”
Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Ethical Leadership and Workplace Jealousy (2014, background): “As a person’s affect about an event can be inferred indirectly by the person’s actions taken toward the event (Connelly et al. 2004), the response also represents a measure of the affective consequence resulted from the cognitions involved in jealousy.”
Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking (2012, background): “…suggests that both positive and negative emotions can limit one’s ability to recognize and respond appropriately to ethical events (Cohen 2010; Connelly et al. 2004; Gaudine and Thorne 2001; Haidt 2003 Lerner et al. 2004; Preston et al. 2007) lending further support for consideration at the…”
Ethical Awareness, Ethical Judgment and Whistleblowing: A Moderated Mediation Analysis (2017, methodology): “Previous research has found a significant relationship between emotion and ethical judgments (Connelly et al. 2004; Curtis 2006) and the role of emotions as a moderator in the relationship between ethical judgments and whistleblowing intentions (Hollings 2013; Henik 2015; Schwartz 2016).”