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Identifying New Organizational Practices by Considering Different Perspectives: An Ethics Management Example

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Johnathan K. Nelson  and
Sydney M. Gebka
Johnathan K. Nelson*
Affiliation:
School of Business Administration, Morehead State University
Sydney M. Gebka
Affiliation:
School of Business Administration, Morehead State University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Johnathan K. Nelson, 313B Combs Building, School of Business Administration, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 40351. E-mail: j.nelson@moreheadstate.edu
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Scientific knowledge is driven by the research questions we ask. As Bergman and Jean (2016) argue, if wage earners, contract workers, and other workers are underrepresented in our research samples, we're likely to fail to investigate phenomena of importance to these populations. By focusing primarily on salaried and managerial workers, we limit the research questions we ask and fail to consider important caveats to industrial-organizational theories. As Bergman and Jean note, we cannot assume that the experiences observed in any group will generalize to other groups. We elaborate on this argument to discuss how failing to take into account the diverse perspectives and needs of the full labor market leads us to fail to ask relevant research questions. Specifically, we discuss how considering unexplored labor market perspectives opens new questions in the area of ethics management.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 152 - 157
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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