Nepotistic Hiring and Poverty From Cultural, Social Class, and Situational Perspectives.

ABSTRACT: Being poor can influence how one makes ethical decisions in various fields. Nepotism is one such area, emerging as kinship-based favoritism in the job market. People can be poor on at least three levels: one can live in a poor country (cross-cultural poverty), be poor compared to others around them (socio-economic poverty), or feel poor in their given situation (situational poverty). We assumed that these levels can simultaneously influence nepotistic hiring decisions among Hungarian (N = 191) and US participants (N = 176). Prior cross-cultural, non-experimental studies demonstrated that nepotism is more prevalent in poorer countries such as Hungary than in richer countries such as the United States. However, contrary to our expectations, in our non-representative, preliminar

SUBMITTER: Jain L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8980472 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature