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- Title
When Employees Do Bad Things for Good Reasons: Examining Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors.
- Authors
Umphress, Elizabeth E.; Bingham, John B.
- Abstract
We propose that employees sometimes engage in unethical acts with the intent to benefit their organization, its members, or both-a construct we term unethical pro-organizational behavior. We suggest that positive social exchange relationships and organizational identification may lead to unethical pro-organizational behavior indirectly via neutralization, the process by which the moral content of unethical actions is overlooked. We incorporate situational and individual-level constructs as moderators of these relationships and consider managerial implications and future research.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL ethics; EMPLOYEE attitudes; NEUTRALIZATION theory; MANAGEMENT science; INDUSTRIAL psychology; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology; ETHICAL problems; SOCIAL exchange; GUILT (Psychology)
- Publication
Organization Science, 2011, Vol 22, Issue 3, p621
- ISSN
1047-7039
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/orsc.1100.0559