The Erasmus Centre of Behavioural Ethics (ECBE) focuses on the global challenges of responsible leadership and decision making.
Ethical challenges are worldwide recognized as one of the primary concerns that organizations, managers and leaders have to deal with. Our centre aims to understand how people evaluate, interpret and experience ethics and morality when making decisions, building relationships and creating effective and transforming working climates.
With this focus we hope to increase our insights into the why and how of ethics – hence our behavioural approach - and to arrive at a better management of ethics, trust and social influence in our global and interpersonal relationships. The centre has a specific focus on contributing to these global challenges through a systematic understanding of human behavior as obtained by both laboratory and field research.
Marius van Dijke edited an issue of RSM Insight on “The World after Covid-19: How we can do business better”. In this edition of RSM Discovery magazine, a number of RSM scholars describe how we can learn from our response to the pandemic in order to organise societies so that they can become more resilient.
The familiar quote that ‘power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, is a commentary on the negative relationship between power and what scientists call “prosocial behaviour” – that is, taking action above and beyond one’s duties for the good of the team or the community to which one belongs. Marius van Dijke recently published new research that questions this quote.
Scientific misconduct is often portrayed as resulting from a few bad apples. In reality, however, almost all people involved in research finds it at times difficult to make the right decisions. To help you better understand the ethical challenges that you can run into as a researcher, and to help you develop skills to deal with these challenges, the ECBE developed the Ethics game.
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is the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
