Year-end bonus is an incentive to cheat

Monday, December 8, 2008 - 16:28 in Psychology & Sociology

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to look far these days to find examples of corporate scandals involving fraud. But Judi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, wanted to find out what actually motivates people to "cook the books."

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