Our Ongoing Research
Our Ongoing Research
The EthiX Culture Index is designed to be a flagship measurement system designed to capture the ethical, interpersonal, and environmental conditions that shape employees’ lived experience at work. Drawing on behavioral ethics, occupational health psychology, and organizational culture research, this stream focuses on identifying the organizational practices that cultivate integrity, fairness, and support. We look at ways those conditions allow individuals and teams to prosper.
This stream explores equanimity as a psychological resource that enables employees to maintain steadiness, clarity, and moral presence under strain. We examine how equanimity intersects with ethical leadership, emotional regulation, compassion, and decision-making in high-stress or morally challenging environments. Ultimately, this research aims to understand how inner steadiness becomes a buffer against harm and a catalyst for ethical action.
This research stream investigates the mechanisms, precursors, and consequences of harm in organizational settings, ranging from verbal aggression, transgressions, and intimidation to physical threats, violence, and assaults. We examine environmental risk factors, leadership failures, and systemic vulnerabilities that allow harm to emerge and persist. Our work also explores protective factors and prevention systems, with an emphasis on creating safer, more predictable environments for employees.
This stream focuses on understanding trauma as a workplace phenomenon—both acute and cumulative. We study how traumatic experiences arise from misconduct, chronic mistreatment, ethical breaches, moral injury, or exposure to violence and suffering. Our research examines how trauma disrupts employees’ cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal functioning, as well as the organizational responses that either exacerbate harm or support recovery. We aim to identify pathways toward healing, resilience, and restored psychological stability, emphasizing organizations’ role in preventing re-traumatization and fostering environments where recovery is acknowledged and supported.
This stream examines the darker dimensions of organizational life—gaslighting, manipulation, ethical violations, deviance, betrayal, and abuses of power. We investigate why transgressions occur, how they spread, how individuals rationalize or conceal them, and the systemic conditions that enable moral blind spots. At the same time, we explore how employees perceive, respond to, and recover from such harm. This work integrates behavioral ethics, moral psychology, and organizational behavior to illuminate both the mechanisms of damage and the levers that can interrupt or prevent it. The overarching aim is to deepen understanding of the forces that undermine dignity and to inform interventions that protect individuals and rebuild trust.