Susceptibility to the ‘Dark Side’ of Goal-Setting: Does Moral Justification Influence the Effect of Goals on Unethical Behavior?
Setting goals in the workplace can motivate improved performance but it might also compromise ethical behavior. In this paper, we propose that individual differences in the dispositional tendency to morally justify behavior moderate the effects of specific performance goals on unethical behavior. We...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2016
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 137, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-127 |
| Further subjects: | B
Moral Justification
B Ethics B Cheating B Goal B Goal-setting B Deception B Unethical Behavior |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
