The social desirability response bias in ethics research

By D. Randall, Maria F. Fernandes. 1990

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Developing a Measure of Unethical Behavior in the Workplace: A Stakeholder Perspective (2008, background): “Unethical behaviors could indeed be prone to this bias (Fernandes & Randall, 1992; Randall & Fernandes, 1991).”
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Commitment, and Job Satisfaction on Ethical Behavior of Chinese Employees (2013, methodology): “The protocol used in our study was first proposed by Randall and Fernandes (1991). Respondents were asked to rate their degree of familiarity with items within four categories (movies, products, TV shows, and designer labels) on a three-point Likert scale (1 = not at all familiar, 3 = very familiar)”
Ethics Training and Businesspersons’ Perceptions of Organizational Ethics (2004, background): “Social desirability bias can often be problematic in business ethics studies (Randall and Fernandes, 1991; Zerbe and Paulhus, 1987).”
Ethical climate, organizational‐professional conflict and organizational commitment: A study of Chinese auditors (2009, methodology): “The impression management scale was used to control for the potential effects of social desirability response bias, which is often present in studies of sensitive issues such as ethical judgments or perceptions (Randall and Fernandes, 1991; Paulhus, 1991, 1984).”
Determinants of residential electricity consumption: Using smart meter data to examine the effect of climate, building characteristics, appliance stock, and occupants' behavior (2013, background): “The use of self-reports to measure behavior may have introduced some bias in the data, called “social desirability” bias [72].”
Investigating the Effects of Gender on Consumers’ Moral Philosophies and Ethical Intentions (2010, background): “Additionally, a measure of social desirability, or answering survey questions in a favorable or socially correct manner (Furnham, 1986), was included as a control because this response pattern can adversely impact some ethics research (Crowne and Marlowe, 1960, 1964; Nederhof, 1985; Randall and Fern”
Professional Ethical Standards, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Perceived Role of Ethics and Social Responsibility (2008, background): “Social desirability Social desirability can adversely impact investigations of organizational and professional ethics (Randall and Fernandes, 1991; Zerbe and Paulhus, 1987).”
Bad Apples or Bad Barrels: An Examination of Group- and Organizational-Level Effects in the Study of Counterproductive Work Behavior (2011, background): “Employees will, if asked, complete self-report surveys of CWBs, but their responses may be influenced by fear of reprisal, embarrassment, and social desirability (Podsakoff & Organ, 1986; Randall & Fernandes, 1991).”
The Effects of Explicit and Implicit Ethics Institutionalization on Employee Life Satisfaction and Happiness: The Mediating Effects of Employee Experiences in Work Life and Moderating Effects of Work–Family Life Conflict (2018, background): “Although we assured anonymity and confidentiality, there is a possibility that social desirability bias may have influenced the study findings (cf. Randall and Fernandes 1991).”
The Visual Analogue Scale for Rating, Ranking and Paired-Comparison (VAS-RRP): A new technique for psychological measurement (2018, background): “…can effectively resolve the response style problem of Likert-type scales because comparison methods do not allow the endorsement of every item, and thus eliminate uniform biases such as acquiescent responding (Baron, 1996; Cunningham et al., 1977; Greenleaf, 1992; Randall & Fernandes, 1991).”