TY - JOUR
T1 - Explaining Unethical Business Decisions
T2 - The role of personality, environment, and states
AU - de Vries, Reinout E.
AU - Pathak, Raghuvar D.
AU - van Gelder, Jean-Louis
AU - Singh, Gurmeet
PY - 2017/10/15
Y1 - 2017/10/15
N2 - A trait-environment-state model of Unethical Business Decisions was developed and tested in two studies in a Pacific Islands setting (i.e., Fiji and the Marshall Islands). In Study 1 (N = 212), we conceptualized and operationalized the environment using two situational variables named ‘Perceived Environmental Corruption’ (PEC) and ‘Perceived Environmental Normativeness’ (PEN). Both environmental variables were (respectively positively and negatively) related to Unethical Business Decisions through the states Felt Lure, Perceived Risk, and (to a lesser extent) Negative Affect. In Study 2 (N = 235), we replicated these findings and additionally showed that HEXACO Honesty-Humility was negatively related to Unethical Business Decisions through Felt Lure and Negative Affect. Furthermore, an interaction between Honesty-Humility and Perceived Environmental Corruption on Felt Lure was observed, indicating that the negative relation between Honesty-Humility and Felt Lure was stronger when the environment was perceived to afford corruption than when it was not.
AB - A trait-environment-state model of Unethical Business Decisions was developed and tested in two studies in a Pacific Islands setting (i.e., Fiji and the Marshall Islands). In Study 1 (N = 212), we conceptualized and operationalized the environment using two situational variables named ‘Perceived Environmental Corruption’ (PEC) and ‘Perceived Environmental Normativeness’ (PEN). Both environmental variables were (respectively positively and negatively) related to Unethical Business Decisions through the states Felt Lure, Perceived Risk, and (to a lesser extent) Negative Affect. In Study 2 (N = 235), we replicated these findings and additionally showed that HEXACO Honesty-Humility was negatively related to Unethical Business Decisions through Felt Lure and Negative Affect. Furthermore, an interaction between Honesty-Humility and Perceived Environmental Corruption on Felt Lure was observed, indicating that the negative relation between Honesty-Humility and Felt Lure was stronger when the environment was perceived to afford corruption than when it was not.
KW - HEXACO
KW - Honesty-Humility
KW - Situation
KW - States
KW - Unethical business decisions
KW - n/a OA procedure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020710925&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020710925
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 117
SP - 188
EP - 197
JO - Personality and individual differences
JF - Personality and individual differences
ER -