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- Title
Wrongdoing by Consultants: An Examination of Employees' Reporting Intentions.
- Authors
Ayers, Susan; Kaplan, Steven E.
- Abstract
Organizations are increasingly embedded with consultants and other non-employees who have the opportunity to engage in wrongdoing. However, research exploring the reporting intentions of employees regarding the discovery of wrongdoing by consultants is scant. It is important to examine reporting intentions in this setting given the enhanced presence of consultants in organizations and the fact that wrongdoing by consultants changes a key characteristic of the wrongdoing. Using an experimental approach, the current paper reports the results of a study examining employees' reporting intentions subsequent to their discovery of wrongdoing by a consultant. The results of the study indicate that perceptions about the seriousness of a wrongdoing, personal costs and personal responsibility related to reporting a wrongdoing, and moral-equity judgments are significantly associated with reporting intentions for a normal (non-anonymous) reporting channel. Only perceptions of seriousness and personal costs are significantly associated for an anonymous reporting channel. Lastly, while personal costs for the anonymous reporting channel were lower than the normal reporting channel, reporting intentions were similar across the two channels.
- Subjects
CONSULTANTS; WHISTLEBLOWING &; ethics; EMPLOYEE complaints; GRIEVANCE procedures; RESPONSIBILITY; EMPLOYEES; CONSULTING firms; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; CORPORATE culture; BUSINESS ethics; BUSINESS etiquette; PROBLEM employees; LABOR discipline
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2005, Vol 57, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-004-4600-0