Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers’ Power Affects Employees’ Reactions to Referral Practices
| Autor: | Bradford Baker, Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Francesca Gino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Actuarial science
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Referral Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL 05 social sciences Power relationship 050109 social psychology Morality General Business Management and Accounting Power (social and political) ComputingMilieux_MANAGEMENTOFCOMPUTINGANDINFORMATIONSYSTEMS Power dynamics Management of Technology and Innovation Perception 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Business and International Management Attribution Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Academy of Management Journal. 61:615-636 |
| ISSN: | 1948-0989 0001-4273 |
| DOI: | 10.5465/amj.2015.1355 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired, through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on attribution of motives to research on relational power to delineate a model that explains employees’ moral evaluations of and reactions to referral practices based on the power relationship between a referrer and a hiring manager. Specifically, we predict that employees are more likely to see the acceptance of a referral from a higher- (as opposed to a lower-) power referrer as a way for the hiring manager to gain more power in the relationship with the referrer, thereby attributing more self-interested motives and more counter-organizational motives to the hiring manager in such situations. These motives are then associated with harsher moral judgments of the hiring manager, which in t... |
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