On Whom You Spend, There Your Ethics Will Be: The Combined Effect of Spending and Construal Level on Ethical Behavior

• 발행기관: 한국인사조직학회
• 저자명: Junho Oh(오준호) Su Sang Lee Yunchul Shin Jessica Seungyoon Sung Sujin Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『한국인사조직학회 발표논문집』한국인사조직학회 2018년도 춘계학술연구발표회 발표논문집, 1~23쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경영학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.04.21

영문 초록

Prior research has documented the strong link between money and unethicality. Our research extends previous findings by focusing on a different aspect of money: spending behavior, or on whom the money is spent. The current study integrates the spending literature and the construal level perspective to propose that individuals’ ethical behavior is determined by whom they spend their money on (the self or others) and how they think (abstractly/high-level or concretely/low-level). Experimental data show that under a high-level construal, people who spent money on others behaved more ethically than those who spent money on themselves. Under a low-level construal, however, neither prosocial nor personal spending influenced subsequent behavior related to an ethical dilemma. Thus, while people spend money on others, they should adopt an abstract, high-level construal to maintain greater integrity with regard to subsequent ethical dilemmas.

목차

Introduction

Money and Ethicality

Spending and Ethicality

The Combined Effect of Spending and Construal Level

Method

Results

Discussion

키워드

spending construal level theory moral consistency moral licensing ethical behavior ethical decision-making