RT Article
T1 A Managerial In-Basket Study of the Impact of Trait Emotions on Ethical Choice
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 51
IS 3
SP 245
OP 267
A1 Connelly, Shane
A1 Helton-Fauth, Whitney
A1 Mumford, Michael D.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785621629
AB This paper explores the relationship of various trait emotions to the ethical choices of 189 college students who completed a managerial decision-making task as part of an in-basket exercise in a laboratory setting. Prior research regarding emotion influences on ethical decision-making and linkages between emotions and cognition informed hypotheses about how different types of emotions impact ethical choices. Findings supported our expectations that positive and negative emotions classified as active would be more strongly related to interpersonally-directed ethical choices than to organizationally-directed ones, and that passive emotions would be less related to ethical choices than active emotions. Implications for ethical decision-making research and organizational practices are discussed.
K1 trait emotions and managerial decisions
K1 trait emotions and ethical choices
K1 organizationally-directed ethical choices
K1 interpersonally-directed ethical choices
K1 ethical choices
K1 Emotions and cognition
K1 active and passive emotions
DO 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000032494.51162.d3