caa a22 4500 605485356 CHVBK 20210128100440.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2062-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2062-6 Peoples' Views About the Acceptability of Executive Bonuses and Compensation Policies [Elektronische Daten] [Marco Heimann, Étienne Mullet, Jean-François Bonnefon] We applied a technique borrowed from the field of bioethics to test whether justice-related factors influence laypersons' decisions concerning business ethics. In the first experiment, participants judged the acceptability of remuneration policies and in the second that of executive bonuses. In each study, participants judged a set of 36 situations. To create the scenarios, we varied (a) retributive justice—the amount of remuneration; (b) procedural justice—the clarity of the procedure that determined the remuneration; (c) distributive justice—the extent of the distribution of bonus payments amongst employees; and (d) restorative justice—a special compensation for hazardous working conditions or accidents at work. K-means clustering of all 36 judgments revealed four different personal positions in both experiments. One group of people readily accepted all situations. The other three groups' judgments were mainly a function of distributive justice modulated in different ways by the context determined by the other variables. Furthermore, people conceive of distributive justice as categorical: Acceptability judgments only increase if companies give bonuses to all employees. Granting bonuses to a subset (i.e. mangers or executives) does not increase acceptability. Our results are useful for policy makers and provide business ethics researchers with a novel technique. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Corporate social responsibility nationallicence Remuneration policy nationallicence Information integration nationallicence Executive compensation nationallicence Justice theory nationallicence Heimann Marco University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France aut Mullet Étienne École Pratique des Hautees Études, Paris, France aut Bonnefon Jean-François University of Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/3(2015-03-01), 661-671 0167-4544 127:3<661 2015 127 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2062-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2062-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heimann Marco University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mullet Étienne École Pratique des Hautees Études, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bonnefon Jean-François University of Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/3(2015-03-01), 661-671 0167-4544 127:3<661 2015 127 10551