Empirical Studies for Prevention of Wrong-doing in Organizations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530791
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Chiba Institute of Science
• Principal Investigator: Wang Jinmin 千葉科学大学, 危機管理学部, 教授 (10302431)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 組織不正 / 不正行為 / 組織風土 / 倫理風土

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main results of this study are as follows. (1) In addition to justice sensitivity and moral norms awareness, it was confirmed that the possibility of affectedness by the fraud leads stronger negative evaluation of the wrong-doing. (2) Individual’s judgment against the misconduct is influenced by ethical climate of the organization. (3) Merely giving an explanation of fraud leads to stronger negative evaluation on the fraud, but giving an explanation while trying to keep the reputation of the organization makes negative evaluation weaker. (4) Chinese company employees’ attitudes towards whistle-blowing are similar to those obtained from Japanese employees while the differences suggest the influence of sociocultural factors.

Free Research Field

社会心理学　産業組織心理学