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The unconscious conscience
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The unconscious conscience
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implicit beliefs in the morality of business and unethical decision making
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Gaspar
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Joseph Paul
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1983-
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Joseph Gaspar
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Chen
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Chao C
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Danielle E
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Danielle E Warren
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Sheldon
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Oliver J
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Trevino
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Linda K
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Linda K Trevino
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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In this dissertation, I develop a model of ethical decision making in organizations that integrates research in behavioral ethics with more recent research in psychology - research that suggests that unethical decision making is more automatic than controlled, more reflexive than reflective, and more unconscious than conscious. Through this model, I propose that organizational members respond to ethical dilemmas with cognitions determined foremost by their implicit beliefs in the morality of business or moral intuition. Further, I propose that these implicit beliefs in the morality of business interact with individual and contextual factors to influence unethical decision making in organizations. This dissertation includes a pilot study and three experimental studies. The purpose of the Pilot Study was to confirm the effectiveness of the manipulation in the experimental studies; the purpose of the experimental studies (Experiments 1, 2, and 3) was to explore the hypotheses developed in the theoretical model. The results of the Pilot Study confirmed the effectiveness of the manipulation. However, the results of Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 did not provide support for the hypotheses. In Experiment 3, the results provided partial support and indicated that implicit beliefs in the morality of business influence earlier stages of the unethical decision making process: immoral judgment and immoral intent. This dissertation concludes with a discussion on the theoretical model and results. In the discussion, I note the insights that this dissertation offers into behavioral ethics research and the ethical decision making process. Further, I discuss the possible reasons for the lack of consistent results across experiments, the limitations of the studies, and the many opportunities for future research in the ethical impulse and calculus perspectives.
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Management
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x, 122 p. : ill.
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by Joseph Paul Gaspar
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Business ethics
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Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Joseph
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31, 2016.
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