PEER REPORTING OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR - A SOCIAL-CONTEXT PERSPECTIVE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: TREVINO, LK; VICTOR, B
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256472
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 38-64
• 关键词: WHISTLE-BLOWERS; GROUP NORMS; RESPONSIBILITY; DESIGN

摘要

This research hypothesized that two social context conditions influence group members' evaluations of peer reporting of unethical behavior and their own inclination to report peers: the misconduct threatens the interests of group members and peer reporting is defined as a role responsibility of group members. Two scenario studies provided mixed support for the hypotheses, results differing in the two hypothetical settings. In both studies, however, when subjects perceived a peer reporter as highly ethical, they simultaneously evaluated him or her as unlikable. Results of a field survey provided some support for the generalizability of the findings to an actual work setting.