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Can Ethical Decision Making be Taught? The JUSTICE Approach

Lau, Cubie; Hulpke, John F; To, Michelle; Kelly, Aidan - In: Social Responsibility Journal 3 (2007) 2, pp. 3-10

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ask whether ethics can be taught? Can we teach how to make decisions in … issues involving ethics? Preliminary results suggest we can. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes how managerial … for Emergency. Findings – It is not known if ethics can be taught, but we now believed we can teach our students learn …

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Averting the Catastrophe of Cyberspace

Shaw, Julia J.A. - In: Social Responsibility Journal 3 (2007) 2, pp. 52-58

Purpose – To address the impact of information technology on culture and society, in particular the potential for control and manipulation afforded to state, government and unregulated corporations, by the medium of sophisticated communication networks. The paper sets out to expose the...

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No Principals, No Principles and Nothing in Reserve: Shell and the Failure of Agency Theory

Crowther, David; Ortiz Martinez, Esther - In: Social Responsibility Journal 3 (2007) 4, pp. 4-14

Purpose – Agency Theory is normally used to explain the relationship between the managers of a corporation and its owners, or shareholders, and to legitimate the payment of share options, and other remuneration mechanisms, to those managers on the basis that this will align the interests of...

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Accounting Ethics Education in Turkish Public Universities

Tunca Caliyurt, Kiymet - In: Social Responsibility Journal 3 (2007) 4, pp. 74-80

Purpose – Ethics education in accounting has become more of an issue after the Enron collapse. The aim of the study is … to evaluate the importance given to accounting ethics education in business schools in Turkey and to discuss the possible … problems by comparing the results with developed countries. Design/methodology/approach – For the evaluation of the ethics …

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Ethics and morality in human resource management

Simmons, John - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 8-23

governance. Its purpose is to evaluate critically the ethics of “mainstream” human resource management (HRM) and to propose an …

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Corporate ethics: an end to the rhetorical interpretations of an endemic corruption

Tran, Ben - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 63-81

Purpose – Crime, fraud, and corruption, are all nouns that pertain to the act of deception that depicts an intention to increase an opportunity in one's favor in an unlawful manner that pertains to an organization's interest and goals. Such offenses are numerous and quite costly and are now a...

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Corruption as a moral issue

Kreikebaum, Hartmut - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 82-88

/methodology/approach – The moral aspects of corruption are treated from an institutional ethics viewpoint as well as an individual ethics … conflicts of companies in Germany and the USA. The individual ethics perspective is derived from a Christian understanding of …

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Can we teach ethics and professional deontology? An empirical study regarding the Accounting and Finance degree

Alegria Carreira, Francisco; do Amparo Guedes, Maria; … - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 89-103

Purpose – This paper sets out to analyse the role of ethics and moral values in higher education, as well as the … articulation with two important professions in the financial area, because ethics and professional deontology play an important …/methodology/approach – The literature review allows one to build a questionnaire used to evaluate the ethical behaviour and rules of ethics in a …

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Corporate social responsibility, new activism and public relations

Demetrious, Kristin - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 104-119

, and a shift in the locus of politics and expertise, bring to light public concerns about the ethics of corporate practices … society. It finds that no serious overhaul of business ethics can occur until the unity of public relations is critically …

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“What we learn today is how we behave tomorrow”: a study on students' perceptions of ethics in management education

Duarte, Fernanda - In: Social Responsibility Journal 4 (2008) 1/2, pp. 120-128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ perceptions of studying ethics in a business management … and theological theories of ethics. Findings – A large majority of the students surveyed (95 percent) believed that the … study of ethics in management is important, and that they had personally benefited from studying ethics in the subject …

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