Development and Validation of a New Measure of Socially Desirable Responding in Organizations: Effects of Unethical Organizational Behavior on False Reporting

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Fisher, Robert

• SSHRC IG awarded 2020: Social desirability bias (SDB) is a significant threat to the validity of organizational research because it can inflate, attenuate, or moderate structural relationships depending on the testing situation, the questioning methods employed, individual differences in the tendency to respond in a socially desirable manner, and the social norms governing the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors being measured. The first objective of the proposed research is to develop a new scale designed to reflect the trait tendency to bias organizational self-reports in a socially desirable manner. The second objective of the proposed research is to examine how and to what extent SDB is affected by ethical norms that are injunctive (i.e., that
  specify how members of an organization should behave) and descriptive (i.e., that describe how members of an organizational actually behave). My
  research is the first to propose that descriptive and injunctive norms can have different effects on the level of SDB contamination in self-reports.

• Date created

  2019-10-15

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Business
  • Management
  • Successful SSHRC
  • IG
  • Insight Grant
  • Social Desirability Bias
  • Whistle blowing
  • False Reporting

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-tx49-sd28

• License

  © Fisher, Robert. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025