The Effects of Transgressor Sex on Judgments of Unethical Behavior

This study investigated the effect of gender stereotypes on evaluator judgments of unethical behavior. Subjects were working adults who completed a mailed survey in which they evaluated unethical behavior depicted in written scenarios. Sex of the transgressor in the scenarios was manipulated. Both q...

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Authors: Maher, Karen J. (Author) ; Bailey, Jeffrey J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1999
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-171
Further subjects:B Gender Stereotype
B Qualitative Analysis
B Ethical Behavior
B Unethical Behavior
B Economic Growth
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Summary:This study investigated the effect of gender stereotypes on evaluator judgments of unethical behavior. Subjects were working adults who completed a mailed survey in which they evaluated unethical behavior depicted in written scenarios. Sex of the transgressor in the scenarios was manipulated. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated that there are no stable differences in evaluations of men and women across scenarios. These results suggest that evaluators do not hold different standards of ethical behavior for men and women, they do not make different causal attributions for the behavior of men and women, nor do evaluators treat men and women differently when an ethical transgression has been committed.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1005872427225