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moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood … effect was mediated by self-reported feelings of moral purity. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased the amount of … Experiment 3, participants who recalled childhood memories judged the ethically-questionable behavior of others more harshly …
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immoral conduct of organizational managers and employees - referred to as “behavioral ethics” - has rapidly grown into an … accepted field of scientific enquiry. In this inaugural address, I distinguish behavioral ethics from traditional philosophical … views of business ethics, and present a brief overview of the history and the current status of the field. I illustrate how …
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investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists … of the history of business ethics and a novel framework for understanding and investigating morality in general. …In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual …
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investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists … of the history of business ethics and a novel framework for understanding and investigating morality in general. …In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097655
Agency problems within the firm are a significant hindrance to efficiency. We propose trust between coworkers as a superior alternative to the standard tools used to mitigate agency problems: increased monitoring and incentive-based pay. We show how trust induces employees to work harder,...
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Policy-makers have relied on non-coercive mechanisms to achieve socially preferred outcomes in a variety of contexts when prices fail to ration scarce resources. Amid heightened concern about environmental damage and climate change, public appeals for cooperation and pecuniary incentives are...
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In this paper, I consider a body of observational evidence not commonly studied by social scientists, namely the behavior of men and women (mostly men) in the military. I focus here on two issues: first the behavioral foundations for creating an effective military unit and second, evidence that...
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Reflection Test (CRT), are more likely to make choices consistent with “mild” altruism in simple non-strategic decisions. Such … characterized by “strong” altruism, but this result holds only in Study 2. Moreover, we provide evidence that the relationship …
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-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming …
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code of ethics that is not just about right and wrong, but emphasises a contractual sense of duty to fellow employees as … being an end in itself – a firm should teach people morality. An s-firm teaches people morality. This is the quintessence of …
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