ARTICLE SUMMARY
Reference Article classification (academic conceptual, academic empirical)
Empirical Research
Journal ranking (ABDC quality journal listing)
A
Impact factor 1.552
Aim/Purpose of article The purpose of this article that inspect how the use of metaphorical violent rhetoric influence the ethical decision making of employees by business managers.
(If an empirical paper) research methodology employed (qual, quant, mixed methods); sampling strategy and sample size employed; context of study eg location, industry; method of data collection methods employed; method of analysis employed. Researcher did research in two studies. In study one researcher requested participants from Amazon Mechanical …show more content…
Sometimes managers use violent languages to stress the importance of company policies and action. Violent rhetoric influence the ethically of employee’s decisions and judgements. When employees own supervisor use violent rhetoric, the violent rhetoric is related with increased ethical decision and makes more ethical decisions. Violent rhetoric is more helpful for business leaders to make ethical decisions. When CEO use violent rhetoric for his employees then employees do not like to cross ethical boundaries. In addition, when other company CEO used violent rhetoric, employees do not believe that they are making an unethical decision. They believe they are acting as protecting themselves because they are not aggressive. The source of violent rhetoric is an employee’s own CEO, employees pay more attention to standards that are being accepted …show more content…
The finding of this article is well presented and concept of the study properly reflected. Purpose of the study is described nicely so every reader can easily understand. The article provides a good review of the effects of violent rhetoric on ethical decision making in business. Next, Research done in two studies so that provide better results. They used two different type of test in studies.
Weaknesses
Personal evaluation required rather than simply repeating any author’s suggestions. This article provides only positive effects of violent rhetoric on ethical decision making in business, author can also provide a negative effects of violent rhetoric on ethical decision making in business. They received less participates in both studies. They recruited participates for both studies from same organisation. Every participates paid $0.50 for research.
Limitations
Personal evaluation required rather than simply repeating any author’s suggestions. Research done using small sample size and they selected participants only form Amazon Mechanical Turk US citizen employees. They measured respondents’ perception of ethically of their decision making, they did not exactly measure that what ethical norms were activated as a result. They did not recruit any sales person for their