Managers’ Restorative Versus Punitive Responses to Employee Wrongdoing: A Qualitative Investigation

Autor: Kenneth D. Butterfield, Nathan Robert Neale, Jerry Goodstein, Thomas M. Tripp
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Business Ethics. 161:603-625
ISSN: 1573-0697
0167-4544
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-3935-x
Popis: A growing body of literature has examined managers’ use of restorative practices in the workplace. However, little is currently known about why managers use restorative practices as opposed to alternative (e.g., punishment) responses. We employed a qualitative interview technique to develop an inductive model of managers’ restorative versus punitive response in the context of employee wrongdoing. The findings reveal a set of key motivating and moderating influences on the manager’s decision to respond to wrongdoing in a restorative versus punitive manner. The findings also suggest that managers’ personal needs and perceived duties in the aftermath of employee wrongdoing are generally more consistent with restorative responses than punishment responses, which helps explain managers’ use of restorative workplace practices.
Databáze: OpenAIRE