Ethical Oversight

Authors are responsible for ensuring that research involving individuals, employees, managers, customers, organizations, personal information, or confidential organizational records complies with applicable ethical and legal requirements.

Research involving:

human participants;
interviews;
surveys;
experiments;
employee data;
customer data;
personal information;
confidential organizational records; or
potentially vulnerable participants

must obtain appropriate institutional ethical approval and informed consent where required.

Authors should clearly state relevant ethical approval information in the manuscript.

Research involving employees or other individuals in organizational settings should minimize potential risks arising from:

unequal power relationships;
workplace coercion;
disclosure of employment information;
retaliation;
identification of participants; or
unauthorized disclosure of organizational information.

Confidential information must be appropriately anonymized or protected.

Where formal ethics approval is not required, authors should be able to explain the basis for that determination.