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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"unethical behavior"”.
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Predicting unethical behavior from interview responses : machine learning models versus human judges
… to predict peoples propensity to commit certain unethical behavior based on analyzing their responses to interview questions aimed at testing their moral character. I experimented with a number of machine learning algorithms and text analysis techniques and created models for predicting unethical …
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Social Accounting and Unethical Behavior: Does Looking Fair Undermine Actually Being Fair?
… how social accounts affect the perceptions and behaviors of managers—those who construct and give them. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the extent to which constructing accounts affects account-givers’ perceptions and behaviors. Drawing on research in social account and behavioral …
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A scholarly analysis of inside trading as unethical behavior within securities law: a comparative study of the United States and Saudi Arabia
<p>This dissertation is purposed to embark on an in-depth comparative scrutiny of the legal approach towards inside trading in both Saudi Arabia and the United States. It aims to offer a comprehensive analysis encompassing the evolution of inside trading legislation historically, the present-day …
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The Effects of Cognitive Moral Development and Reinforcement Contingencies on Ethical Decision Making
… of cognitive moral development (CMD) on ethical behavior, moderated by reinforcement contingencies. Past research has failed to examine the full spectrum of reinforcement contingencies: rewarding ethical behavior (RE), punishing unethical behavior (PU), rewarding unethical behavior (RU), and …
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An Analysis of the Strategies to promote Ethical Behaviour in Local Government: A Case of Thulamela Local Municipality
… study analyses the strategies to promote ethical behavior in local government, with a particular focus on Thulamela Local Municipality (TLM). TLM is one of the local municipalities constituting Vhembe District Municipality in the Limpopo province. The 1994 first democratic elections in South …
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Psychological Entitlement as a Predictor of Unethical Decision Making: An Investigation of Moral Disengagement as a Mediator
… by the person involved, and thus lead to unethical decision making and behavior. To build on this research this study investigates another aspect. I argue that psychological entitlement (i.e., the belief that you deserve more simply because of who you are) is an antecedent of moral …
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Organizational ethics and maintaining an ethical environment through employee involvement
… attention was being given to organizational behavior and the courts were now able to hold organizations accountable for misconduct with stronger sanctions; Organizations have now had more than ten years to implement their Ethics Programs for effectiveness. Yet today we see numerous cases of …
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Ethical Leadership and Communication
… roles within the group. Communicative styles and behaviors of ethical and unethical leaders were determined. Personality factors were found to predispose leaders to engage in ethical or unethical behavior. Situational factors found to foster unethical behavior were leadership style, …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… I use experimental methods to better understand behavioral roots of corruption. Corruption is endemic to most developing countries. Most of the recent research in economics has focused on documenting the existence of corruption, measuring its economic impact and designing effective mechanisms to …
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Character, conditions, and cognitions: the role of personality, climate, intensity, and moral disengagement in the unethical decision-making process
Despite increased attention given to unethical decision-making, few studies have simultaneously examined the multiple influences that may effect this outcome. In addition, few studies have examined the processes through which unethical decision-making may be influenced. Drawing on field theory and …
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The Evolution of Organizational Ethics Initiatives and the Case for Corporate Codes of Conduct
… to maximize their personal wealth, thus acting unethically. This moral hazard has been a permanent factor in business despite society’s efforts to control or legislate the questionable behaviors of business organizations and individuals. Still, ethical lapses remain. As is the case with most …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
… focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is largely beneficial for followers and …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
… focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is largely beneficial for followers and …
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Ethical Reasoning, Machiavellian Behavior, and Gender: The Impact on Accounting Students' Ethical Decision Making
… and Geis, 1970) is used to measure moral behavior. Eight ethical vignettes adapted from prior ethics studies represent realistic, business ethical scenarios. A total of sixty-eight undergraduate accounting students are used to examine three hypotheses. Literature suggests that individuals …
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Going with the flow?: the medical school pipeline and advising premedical African American students on predominantly white campuses
… while others perceived such consideration as unethical behavior and therefore utilized a race-neutral advising approach. The utilization of qualitative and quantitative approaches revealed divergent viewpoints regarding confidence in and comfort with advising African American premedical …
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Ethical Values as Tools for Effective Service Delivery at the Local Government in Riga, Latvia and Vilnius, Lithuania /
… not achieved due to the increasing levels of unethical practices in the public sector. Ethical expectations in the public service are daily getting higher. This change in ethical expectation affects all countries with no exception. The emerging global trend in public work is the level of work …
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Designing game ethics : a pervasive game adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo
… decisions regarding what was acceptable gameplay behavior. After the playtest, players participated in a group post mortem and individual thirty minute interviews. This thesis discusses the methodologies that I employed in this project to engage Civilité players in ethical and unethical behavior …
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How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers
… may serve as a possible antidote to leaders' unethical behavior. This study built upon Mitroff and Denton's work by examining the role of spirituality in ethical decision making. Specifically, the purpose of this qualitative research was to develop greater understanding of what it is like to …
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Ethics in Congress
… shows that much of the opportunity for gross misbehavior has been limited by changes occurring in the latter part of the twentieth century. A review of these incidents and of reform attempts indicates a relatively small proportion of misdeeds and some fairly strong efforts to eliminate the most …
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Ecopornography and the Commodification of Extinction: The Rhetoric of Natural History Filmmaking, 1895-Present
… than their real-world analogs, and helps enable unethical behavior toward the environment and nonhuman animals. At stake in this dissertation is a deeper understanding of how natural history filmmaking affects the public?s awareness of (and role in) the environment.
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