Management plays an important role in setting the ethical tone in organizations. To support this aim, managers must use incentive and goal programs in ethical ways. This study examines experimentally the potential ethical costs associated with incentive-driven and goal-induced employee behavior...

Many formerly communist European countries have experienced dramatic economic change, ultimately affecting the manner in which companies in these areas are owned and managed. Many of these regions "have undertaken a transformation from a communist economic system to a capitalistic market...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree to which subjects' moral reasoning, using the first two stages of Rest's (1986) ethical reasoning model, is related to perceived moral intensity (Jones 1991) in several tax-based equitable relief situations

This study explored several proposed relationships among professional ethical standards, corporate social responsibility, and the perceived role of ethics and social responsibility. Data were collected from 313 business managers registered with a large professional research association with a...

Companies often develop codes prescribing an ethical organizational environment. However, the ability of ethics codes to increase individuals’ tolerance of diversity is not fully considered in the ethics literature. This relationship was explored using a sample of 143 business and legal...

Companies offer ethics codes and training to increase employees’ ethical conduct. These programs can also enhance individual work attitudes because ethical organizations are typically valued. Socially responsible companies are likely viewed as ethical organizations and should therefore prompt...

Ethics training is commonly cited as a primary method for increasing employees’ ethical decision making and conduct. However, little is known about how the presence of ethics training can enhance other components of an organization’s ethical environment such as employees’ perception of...

This study assesses the relationships among unethical corporate values, bullying experiences, psychopathy, and selling professionals’ ethical evaluations of bullying. Information was collected from national/regional samples of selling professionals. Results indicated that unethical values,...