Barnes and three other scholars conducted four studies in different settings and situations to examine the influence of low levels of sleep in decision-making situations involving ethical considerations. \u201cWe consistently found that people were more likely to behave unethically when they were short on sleep<\/strong>,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n An important practical implication of their research, he says, is that managers and organizations may play a larger role than previously thought in promoting unethical behavior \u2014 through excessive work demands, extended work hours, and shifts that result in night work, each of which, other studies show, has diminished employee sleep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not arguing that managers can or should completely control the sleep and unethical behavior of their subordinates,\u201d Barnes says, \u201cbut that managers should recognize that many of their actions may have second-order effects on sleep and thus unethical behavior. Managers who push their employees to work long hours, work late into the night, or work sporadic and unpredictable schedules may be creating situations that foster unethical behavior<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Barnes is the lead author of \u201cLack of sleep and unethical conduct,\u201d co-authored with John Schaubroeck and Megan Huth of Michigan State University and Sonia Ghumman of the University of Hawaii and published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes<\/em>, 115 (2011), 169\u2013180.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Pamplin College of Business press release: Many studies have looked at the impact of sleep deprivation on workers\u2019 health, safety, and morale, says Pamplin College of Business management… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,8],"tags":[127,28,75,59,58,143,12,362,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Sleep.jpg\" "\\"sleep\\"")
Many studies have looked at the impact of sleep deprivation on workers\u2019 health, safety, and morale, says Pamplin College of Business management assistant professor Christopher Barnes, but few have considered its implications for unethical behavior. \u201cSleep deprivation may also contribute to unethical conduct in the workplace, which is costly to organizations<\/strong>,\u201d says Barnes, who co-authored a recent study on the subject.<\/p>\n