Introduction
In this article I discuss about the
reasons or causes of unethical behavior in a work place. What is unethical
behavior? It’s a behavior that differentiates the moral principles and good
values which people believe to be present in their life. The opposites of
fairness, honesty, dignity and individual rights are unethical behaviors. People
want to work in a healthy, friendly working environment and with corporate,
wiliness and respectful peoples. It is important to grow ethical behavior in every
work place and avoid unethical behaviors. There are many reasons or causes that
lead unethical behavior in a work place. To avoid unethical behavior in the
organizations many are following rules and guidelines or prepared its own
procedures. Even though guideline and rules are exist, with different cause and
reasons, many unethical cases are occurring in the organizations.
In this article
my topic “causes of unethical behavior in a work place”, I include a findings
of related work from Bocconi University, Italy, (Nicola Belle , Paola Cantarelli, 2017) on a topic of “What
Causes Unethical Behavior?” a meta-analysis to set an agenda for public administration.
They used meta-analysis to synthesize 137 experiments in 73 articles on the
causes of unethical behavior. Researchers said that the primary aim of their
work are to help fill the gap by providing a comprehensive synthesis of the
experimental literature in this area. Data collected from 137 experiments in 73
articles and identified 12 causes of unethical behavior.
Analyse Data in Relation to the Topic
The researcher investigated this topic on two
main reasons. Those are investigating causal mechanisms that drive unethical
behavior in and to motivate scholars in field to conduct future experimental
research on the determinants of unethical behavior that will capitalize on what
they know now, complement normative debates, and triangulate observational
findings.
Below the table 1, gives the 12 main factors
that cause unethical behaviors. That is one of the most important work related
in the research.
This is only table that they included in the
published article and they mentioned some other tables in the report but it has
not shown in published one.
In my view, weakness of this research is that
they included only one table to show the result. Just seen one table only it is
difficult to understand how deep the research has done the work. In the article
they have detailed the process carried out and discussed the result, but the
disappeared tables not hint any information.
Conclusion
The “causes of
unethical behavior in a work place” are not only what these researchers listed.
In this research identified 12
causes of unethical behavior are social influences, greed, egocentrism,
monitoring, moral reminders, self-justification, self-view, self-control
depletion, slippery slope effect, loss aversion, goal setting, and time
pressure. Additional causes, like a common infraction, misusing company time,
mistreating others, lying, stealing or violating company internet policies,
increasing unethical behavior in the workplace is widespread in many
organizations.
These causes of unethical behavior are not specific
in to one work place but it happening everywhere in the working environments.
To decrease or avoid these causes of unethical behavior in work is not costly. It
needs follow the rules, corporate each other, coordination from top to bottom employees
and keep equal justice to all.
Reference
Nicola Belle , Paola Cantarelli.
(2017). What Causes Unethical Behavior? A Meta-Analysis to Set an Agenda for
Public Administration Research. Public Administration Review, 13.
