I have the professors comments on the paper itself could you fix to meet her requirements?
This is the claim
“Individuals who are more externally driven tend to prioritize financial gains”
For this claim that you chose from the chatGPT answer, provide the evidence chatGPT used and determine if the claim is valid. Name your sources!
EXAMPLE
An ethical climate fosters a culture of trust in organizations.
I will first define the terms. “According to the classical definition by Victor and Cullen (1988), ethical climate may be defined as a “set of shared perceptions of procedures and policies, both codified and informal, which shape expectations for ethical behavior within an organization or a company.” Source:
Then, I will review the evidence of the impact of an ethical climate on the organization. Primarily using surveys, researchers have found that the ethical climate influences the behavior of employees regarding ethical decisions (Trevino et al., 1998), job attitudes (Deshpande, 1996: Ambrose 2008), commitment to the organization of marketing employees (Babin et al., 2000), organizational deviance (Hsieg & Wang, 2016), and corruption (Gorsira et al., 2018). A further review and expansion of these studies is available in Terese et al’s (2019) article on ethical climates and employees’ behavior. Overall, the evidence suggests that the ethical climate impacts how employees behave within the organization and how closely they feel tied to the organization. In particular, if employees feel the organization’s ethical climate aligns with their values, they are more committed to the organization (Pagliaro et al., 2011).
Finally, I will evaluate if the evidence supports the claim. chatGPTs claim is that an ethical climate fosters a positive culture. However, according to the research above, this depends both on what that climate is and how aligned it is with employees’ values. For instance, if the expectation is that employees engage in unethical behavior, it would follow the the organization would foster a climate of mistrust. Enron’s downfall is a prime example of this (Sims & Brinkmann, 2003.) In addition, if the ethical climate does not align with personal values when, for example, the organization prioritizes profit over safety, as was the case with Amazon during COVID (Agnihotri & Bhattachary, 2022), then the ethical climate would not lead to a culture of trust Since there very clear exceptions to the claim, I do not think the claim is valid.
References
Agnihotri, A. and Bhattacharya, S., 2022. Addressing Poor Working Conditions at Amazon, Inc.: Challenges Before, During, and After COVID-19. SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals.
Babin, B. J., Boles, J. S., and Robin, D. P. (2000). Representing the perceived ethical work climate among marketing employees. J. Acad. Market. Sci. 28, 345–358. doi: 10.1177/0092070300283004
Deshpande, S. P. (1996). The impact of ethical climate types on facets of job satisfaction: an empirical investigation. J. Bus. Ethics 15, 655–660. doi: 10.1007/BF00411800
Gorsira, M., Steg, L., Denkers, A., and Huisman, W. (2018). Corruption in organizations: ethical climate and individual motives. Adm. Sci. 8:4. doi: 10.3390/admsci8010004
Hsieh, H.-H., and Wang, Y.-D. (2016). Linking perceived ethical climate to organizational deviance: the cognitive, affective, and attitudinal mechanisms. J. Bus. Res. 69, 3600–3608. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.01.001
Pagliaro, S., Ellemers, N., and Barreto, M. (2011). Sharing moral values: anticipated in-group respect as a determinant of adherence to morality-based (but not competence-based) group norms. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 37, 1117–1129. doi: 10.1177/014616721140690Teresi, M., Pietroni, D.D., Barattucci, M., Giannella, V.A. and Pagliaro, S., 2019. Ethical climate (s), organizational identification, and employees’ behavior. Frontiers in psychology, 10, p.1356.
Sims, R.R. and Brinkmann, J., 2003. Enron ethics (or: culture matters more than codes). Journal of Business ethics, 45, pp.243-256.
Treviño, L. K., Butterfield, K. D., and McCabe, D. M. (1998). The ethical context in organizations: influences on employee attitudes and behaviors. Bus. Ethics Q. 8, 447–476. doi: 10.5840/10.2307/3857431
Victor, B., and Cullen, J. B. (1988). The organizational bases of ethical work climates. Adm. Sci. Q. 33, 101–125. doi: 10.2307/23928.
