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Promoting Employee Policy Adherence and Rule Following in Work Settings: The Value of Self-Regulatory Approaches

Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Securing employee adherence to work-place rules and company policies is one key antecedent of successful coordination and functioning within organizations.It is important for companies to be able to motivate effectively rulefollowing behavior among employees.This analysis highlights the value of identifying optimal approaches to securing such behavior.In this paper, two strategies for achieving policy adherence and rule following are compared.Those strategies are: (1) the sanction-based command-and-control model and (2) self-regulatory approaches that are linked to activating employees' ethical judgments.Research findings suggest that, while command-and-control strategies influence employee
Author: Tom R. Tyler
Institution: Brooklyn Law School
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1556425964
FWCI: 3.245
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Cited by: 39
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