“If Only My Coworker Was More Ethical”: When Ethical and Performance Comparisons Lead to Negative Emotions, Social Undermining, and Ostracism
Drawing on social comparison theory, we investigate employees’ ethical and performance comparisons relative to a similar coworker and subsequent emotional and behavioral responses. We test our theoretically driven hypotheses across two studies. Study 1, a cross-sectional field study (N = 310 employe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2019
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 159, Issue: 2, Pages: 567-586 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social undermining
B Behavioral ethics B Ostracism B Social comparison theory |
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