caa a22 4500 465817114 CHVBK 20180323112126.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00386354 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00386354 Tyson Thomas Dept. of Accounting and Law, Clarkson University, Snell Hall, 13676, Potsdam, New York, USA aut Believing that everyone else is less ethical: Implications for work behavior and ethics instruction [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Tyson] Studies consistently report that individuals believe they are far more ethical than co-workers, superiors, or managers in other firms. The present study confirms this finding when comparing undergraduate students' own ethical standards to their perceptions of the standards held by most managers or supervisors. By maintaining a "holier than thou” ethical perception, new and future managers might rationalize their unethical behavior as being necessary for success in an unethical world. A prisoner's dilemma type problem can be said to exist when choosing an unethical behavior becomes each player's dominant strategy and the interaction of dominant behaviors is Pareto inferior. Dispelling the "holier than thou” perception may encourage students to revise their personal behavior payoffs such that the collective benefits that emanate from ethical conduct are favored and the prisoner's dilemma problem is converted into a coordination problem. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/9(1990-09-01), 715-721 0167-4544 9:9<715 1990 9 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386354 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386354 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tyson Thomas Dept. of Accounting and Law, Clarkson University, Snell Hall, 13676, Potsdam, New York, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/9(1990-09-01), 715-721 0167-4544 9:9<715 1990 9 10551 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer