"If Only My Coworker Was More Ethical": When Ethical and Performance Comparisons Lead to Negative Emotions, Social Undermining, and Ostracism - Quade, Matthew J.; Greenbaum, Rebecca L.; Mawritz, Mary B. (Journal of business ethics, 2019)
Keywords: Behavioral responses; Between-subjects design; Business and Management; Business Ethics; Colleagues; Dyads; Education; Emotions; Employee attitude; Employees; Ethics; Hypotheses; Hypothesis testing; Management; Mixed methods research; Negative emotions; Original Paper; Ostracism; Philosophy; Quality of Life Research; Social comparison; Social dynamics; Ostracism; Social undermining; Behavioral ethics; Social comparison theory