Recent trends in incentive compensation highlight two important features regarding performance-based rewards: (a) firms are offering rewards more frequently, and (b) firms are increasingly using tangible rewards in lieu of cash rewards to motivate employees. This study investigates how reward...

Recent incentive compensation trends suggest that many firms are (a) increasing the frequency with which they reward their employees and (b) providing gift-like unconditional rewards to employees irrespective of performance. This study investigates how reward frequency and reward conditionality...

Managers prepare corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports by recalling and describing their past socially responsible actions. Using an experiment, we test whether the manner in which managers prepare CSR reports influences their subsequent ethical decisions. CSR reporting guidelines and...

Some employers offer workers financial rewards for reporting internal misconduct that harms the employer, and recent press articles suggest more employers should adopt this practice to increase the rate of internal whistleblowing. However, rewards are costly, and no consensus exists about...

Prior archival research documents a positive association between managers' socially responsible actions and their ethical behavior in other domains and typically attributes this association to firm- and manager-level fixed effects. Using an experiment, we provide evidence about a new mechanism...

Employee reporting dishonesty is a significant area of concern for firms. In this study, we investigate how providing information about their prosocial actions, such as organizational citizenship behaviors, affects the extent of employee reporting dishonesty. We distinguish prosocial actions...