In a series of studies published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, psychologists had participants ask strangers to perform unethical acts—such as to vandalize a library book by writing the word "pickle" in it.
Her dissertation, entitled, "Warding off organizational vampires: Moral cues and social norms as a necklace of garlic," examines the possibility of offering employees a safe way in which they may prevent their superiors from asking them to perform unethical acts.
Thus, doctors were perceived to have both the means and the motive for performing unethical organ recovery.
She also claims that Love wanted her to hire a computer hacker, send fake legal correspondence and do other unethical acts -- all of which Labrie refused.
It can force people to act ethically, rather than encourage unethical acts.
In 1978 he fired the police chief after he publicly accused Kucinich of trying to force him to commit "unethical acts".
But if I were to place unethical acts on an ascending continuum of 1 to 100, I'd give you and your wife a 4. Maybe a 3.
But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
So, the argument goes, unethical businesspeople will make a short-term profit doing unethical acts until those acts become illegal, whereas those looking for long-term gain will steer clear of the line.
In our studies, we examined the vividness and level of detail of people's memories when they recalled unethical acts as compared with other acts.
In fact, our research shows, people are more likely to forget the details of their own unethical acts as compared to other incidents - including neutral, negative or positive events, as well as the unethical actions of others.
