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Unethical Behaviour in the Workplace:A Direct and Conceptual Replication of Jon7es & Kavanagh (1996)

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AuthorsThomas EvansJames Bartlett
Year2022
Item typeJournal Article

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AuthorsThomas Rhys EvansJames Edward BartlettAmelie Gourdon-KanhukamweTim AllenGeorgia AntoniouSara ArentDea AsmaraniNeelo BinnsClara BoultonJoshua BowhayLinnea CederlundRamnik ChanaYu Yang ChouKevina DookheeaGurbani GuglaniAbi Hamson-FordHolly HoodEci Balim HostafciSuha JahanzebKaylie JonesGemma Katie M JosephTephilla KemaleshLamiss-Roya KarouiSoha KhanRenata KviatkoyskyteJing Xuan LeeRahimah LewisOdelia LoganGeorgia MartinSamaneh Vahedi Moghadam MasulehRebecca McCullochPragya ModiSusan NakroVy NguyenMinh PhanEdward PhilcoxAna B PliegoSasha RamanAnusha Vaithianathan RamjiAnna M. H. RamsayNatasha E Rhone-ParkinsonTayla Rizzo-PowellAttila SimonyRoksana A SobolakMaia ThompsonBelieve UjobundoBhagyashree VijayakumarNatalja Wells-DeanMichaela Natasha WernickGemma WoodChan Young YangZareen ZahidColleen AddicottHazel BendingElisabeth E. F. BradfordPeter Edward BranneyJoanna ButlerIrene ChuOliver ClarkLaura DeanYannick GriepTom HattonCaroline HeardOlivia KowalczykAlexandra LautarescuTony McCarthyKimberly R MoreJohn SaboJoyce Elena SchleuDora ScholariosRosalind SearleIlham SebahLaura WallisRuijie WangJérémy E. Wilson-LemoineEmma Wilson-LemoineCalvin Burns
VenueComprehensive Results in Social Psychology
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Intentions to act unethically in the workplace are purported to be driven by a number of situational and individual factors. Across two seminal vignette experiments, Jones and Kavanagh reported inconsistent effect sizes for manager and peer influence and locus of control, consistent significant effects for work quality and Machiavellianism, and consistent non-significant effects for gender. Using an innovative multi-site collaboration, the current Registered Report represents a direct replication of these experiments (N = 2218), and adds a longitudinal conceptual replication capturing self-reported unethical work behaviour (N = 1747). Both replications found a consistent small effect of having a more external locus of control and male identity, and a consistent moderate effect of machiavellianism, for increasing unethical intentions and behaviour. The situational factors, whilst consistent in direction with that of the original study, varied more substantively in effect size. Our results highlight the value of multi-site collaborations and different replication types in developing conceptual, methodological, measurement and theoretical clarity to ensure future works can progress more rapidly to minimize the negative impacts of unethical workplace behaviour and improve individual’s working lives. All materials, code and data for this project can be found here: osf.io/d3arx.

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