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Who’s with Me? False Consensus, Brokerage, and Ethical Decision Making in Organizations
Authors:
Francis Flynn, Scott Wiltermuth
Abstract:
We propose that members of organizations overestimate the degree to which others share their views on matters of ethics. Further, we argue that this false consensus bias is exacerbated, not mitigated, by being a broker in an advice network. That is, a high level of betweenness centrality increases a focal individual’s estimates of agreement with others on ethical issues beyond what is warranted by any actual increase in agreement. We test these ideas with three separate samples of graduate business students, executive students, and employees in an organization. Individuals who had higher betweenness centrality (rather than degree or closeness centrality) overestimated the extent to which their ethical judgments were in line with the judgments of their colleagues.
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