Overview
- A unified approach to key issues, analyses, and solutions in every chapter
- Visuals clarifying unintended effects of standard organizational practices
- Unique approach to highlight recurring moral challenges in organizational behavior
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Investors, customers and employees increasingly expect organizations to take responsibility for the social impact of their activities. This book applies theory and research on moral psychology and social identity, to offer a new perspective on organizational social responsibility and business ethics. The authors use their unique approach to highlight recurring moral challenges in organizational behavior, such as leadership, work motivation, diversity, organizational change and stakeholder relations. Their analysis explains that people are reluctant to acknowledge and confront moral flaws in their workplace behavior, because this constitutes a source of identity threat. Common strategies to cope with this threat invite justifications and symbolic actions – and prevent moral improvement. Each chapter draws together a wealth of research findings and organizational cases. These not only identify and clarify common moral pitfalls, but also show ways to enhance the likelihood that organizations acquire the knowledge, willingness and ability to build an ethical work climate.
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Keywords
- Social identity approach
- Moral behavior in organizations
- Supervision and work motivation in organizations
- The role of respect in supervision and work motivation
- Financial, legal, and social incentives in the workplace
- Leadership and supervision in organizations
- Accountability vs. autonomy
- Individual performance incentives vs. fairness
- Feedback and improvement
- Threat versus challenge of negative feedback in the workplace
- Promotion versus prevention oriented incident management
- Teamwork and employee diversity
- ‘Deviance’ in the workplace: newcomers and whistle-blowers
- Organizational flexibility and innovation
- Perceived legitimacy of diversity and inclusion measures
- Organizational reputation and communication
- Organizational image in the eyes of different stakeholders
- Motives for and effects of corporate philanthropy and CSR
- Ethics climates
- Greenwashing
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Naomi Ellemers is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, and member of the supervisory board of PwC in the Netherlands. With a combination of experimental and applied research methods she examines the behavior of people in groups and organizations. She applies her insights on organizational ethics, compliance, and diversity, in joint projects with regulators, policy makers, and organizational leaders.
Dick de Gilder is Associate Professor of Organizational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before he was consultant for applied research and innovation at TNO, and senior researcher/consultant at Labor Union CNV. He is an expert on error management in organizations, corporate philanthropy, teamwork and temporary work.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Moral Organization
Book Subtitle: Key Issues, Analyses, and Solutions
Authors: Naomi Ellemers, Dick de Gilder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84175-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84174-4Published: 28 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84177-5Published: 28 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84175-1Published: 27 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 345
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics