Hypocrisy by association: When organizational membership increases condemnation for wrongdoing

•People receive harsh condemnation for hypocrisy: a failure to practice what they preached.•We show people also face condemnation for hypocrisy-by-association: a failure to practice what their organization preached.•Impartial observers judged an employee more harshly for the same misdeed when it transgressed his organization’s values.•Job candidates received less support when their misdeeds did (vs. did not) violate a value their former employer promoted.•Our results expand previous theories of hypocrisy and shed new light on how people think about employment relationships.