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Study of Organizational Elements and Collective Guilt defining Organizational Misconduct Behavior

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15530408
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Social psychology
Research InstitutionJapan Women's University

Principal Investigator

HOMMA Michiko  Japan Women's University, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences, Professor, 人間社会学部, 教授 (40083216)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAZAMA Fumiaki  Junnmonnji University, Faculty of Human Life, Lecturer, 人間生活学部, 講師 (20276760)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Keywordsorganizational misconduct behavior(OMB) / Organizational crime / Collective guilt / Lack of social justice / 情報交換の少なさ / 社会的公正 / 社会的公正観 / 情報交換の低下 / 集団・組織行動 / 役割認識 / 内集団志向 / 集団規範 / 集団全体の見通し / 外集団認識
Research Abstract

Industrial organizations or corporate organizations have been demanded to comply with laws and foster morality within the organizations as their social responsibility so strongly as today, because of some industrial organizations having been committed to crime.
Such a misconduct or corruption within a company (OMB) is not a crime for an individual's benefits (slowdown, work absence), that is, a job crime, but an illegal act to achieve an organizational goal (corporate profits) as a constituent member of an organization. The aims of this project were examined conducting a survey on the employees of the company committed organizational misconduct case. 1 Examining a feeling of collective guilt felt by not only parties involved the OMB, but other employees of the same organization for this case as the emotion felt as a member of an organization. 2 Clarifying organizational elements affected OMB and clarifying group identification of employees as well as guilt felt for the case as employees. The results were following. 1 Feeling of collective guilt showed that explained member's feeling for OMB in other group member. 2 Group identification corrected with feeling collective guilt. 3 Although the organizational elements could not be showed to contribute to collective guilt significantly, low out of group recognition, low social justice and lack of information exchange were examined negatively contributing to collective guilt. These results were presented on International congress of psychology at Beijing.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2003-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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