Organizational dependence and the likelihood of complying with organizational pressures to behave unethically
Journal of Business Ethics · 1993 · Volume 12 · Issue 3
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a survey completed by 565 human resource professionals in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The major result suggests that individuals who are more dependent on their employing organizations are more likely to comply with organizational pressures to behave unethically. Factor analysis of our dependent measure of ethical organizational behavior suggested that two distinct constructs were being tapped; furthermore, different variables were found to predict each. The potential for conceptualizing unethical organizational behavior as multidimensional is discussed.
Keywords
Economic Growth, Human Resource, Dependent Measure, Organizational Behavior, Major Result
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