When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role ...
Type de document :
Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage
Titre :
When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation
Auteur(s) :
Amaral Lauriano, Lucas [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Reinecke, Juliane [Auteur]
Etter, Michael [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Reinecke, Juliane [Auteur]
Etter, Michael [Auteur]
Titre de la revue :
Journal of Business Ethics
Éditeur :
Springer Verlag
Date de publication :
2021-09-29
ISSN :
0167-4544
Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :
Corporate hypocrisy
Misalignment
Moral judgement
Employees
Corporate social responsibility implementation
Aspirational talk
Misalignment
Moral judgement
Employees
Corporate social responsibility implementation
Aspirational talk
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management
Résumé en anglais : [en]
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspirations by companies have been identified as a motivating factor for active employee participation in CSR implementation. However, a failure to practise what one preaches can ...
Lire la suite >Corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspirations by companies have been identified as a motivating factor for active employee participation in CSR implementation. However, a failure to practise what one preaches can backfire and lead to attribution of hypocrisy. Drawing on a qualitative study of an award-winning sustainability pioneer in the cosmetics sector, we explore the role of moral judgement in how and when employees interpret word–deed misalignment in CSR implementation as hypocritical. First, our case reveals that high CSR aspirations by companies raise employees’ moral expectations. Second, we develop a framework that explains variations in employees’ hypocrisy interpretations based on consequentialist and deontological forms of moral judgement. Our research advances a contextual view of hypocrisy, not as an objective characteristic of an organisation, but as an outcome of interpretative processes of perceived motives and results in CSR implementation. Our framework thereby explains why even highly committed organisations may face accusations of hypocrisy.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >Corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspirations by companies have been identified as a motivating factor for active employee participation in CSR implementation. However, a failure to practise what one preaches can backfire and lead to attribution of hypocrisy. Drawing on a qualitative study of an award-winning sustainability pioneer in the cosmetics sector, we explore the role of moral judgement in how and when employees interpret word–deed misalignment in CSR implementation as hypocritical. First, our case reveals that high CSR aspirations by companies raise employees’ moral expectations. Second, we develop a framework that explains variations in employees’ hypocrisy interpretations based on consequentialist and deontological forms of moral judgement. Our research advances a contextual view of hypocrisy, not as an objective characteristic of an organisation, but as an outcome of interpretative processes of perceived motives and results in CSR implementation. Our framework thereby explains why even highly committed organisations may face accusations of hypocrisy.Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Vulgarisation :
Non
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