While prior research suggests that moral self-regulation helps promote honest behavior, we predict that a financial measurement basis undermines moral self-regulation by strengthening the manager's desire to advance self-interest and that the absence of direct slack benefits undermines moral self-regulation by making misreporting more justifiable.
Vohs, Schooler, and Shariff have argued that disbelief in free will encourages cheating and undermines moral behaviour (Shariff, Schooler, & Vohs, 2008; Vohs & Schooler, 2008).
While Crerar's library bequest did not provide for a purely science library, he expressly wished that certain novels and other works that he felt undermined morals be excluded.
Keating said Meyer had done more to undermine morals in the nation than anyone else; Meyer responded that "I was glad to do it".
But, in other ways, he was curiously impervious to anything that might undermine moral values of a bygone age.
Back then, Farouk al-Kasim, an Iraqi-born Norwegian petroleum engineer, warned that all that sudden easy money could create "so much pressure that it will completely overwhelm environmental concerns; the force can undermine moral, ethical barriers".
He takes seriously the concern that this might also undermine moral commitment.
Moreover, to be limited in word and thought is to undermine moral reasoning, which is the condition of the "savage".
So marking the coin and thereby reducing the ambiguity as to what the fair assignment should have been, did nothing to undermine moral hypocrisy.
Parents should be free to choose schools that really work for their children schools that are safe, clean, disciplined, drug-free and academically challenging, as well as ones that reinforce rather than undermine moral and spiritual values taught at home.
