A Model of Business Ethics

Abstract

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Role Conflict, Mindfulness, and Organizational Ethics in an Education-Based Healthcare Institution

“…Firms commonly advocate positive values/practices that strengthen organizational ethics and increase employees' ethical awareness, reasoning, and conduct (e.g., Barnett and Vaicys, 2000;Douglas et al, 2001;Jones and Kavanagh, 1996;Singhapakdi et al, 2000;Valentine and Barnett, 2007). Such efforts include reprimanding/rewarding individuals for unethical/ethical behavior, encouraging top leadership to support ethics, acting with social responsibility, and adopting ethical norms of conduct (e.g., Ferrell et al, 2008;Hunt et al, 1989;Sims, 1991;Snider et al, 2003;Svensson and Wood, 2008;Trevino, 1986;Trevino and Nelson, 2007;Trevino et al, 1998). Other more programmatic approaches include the creation of codes of conduct.…”

A construct of code effectiveness: empirical findings and measurement properties

“…This article builds on the work of Svensson, Wood and Callaghan (2004a;2004b); Svensson, Wood and Callaghan (2006);and Svensson and Wood (2008), which examined reasons stated by companies as to why they believed that having a code of ethics had a positive effect upon their company. The previous work in this area suggested that the responses would fall into three categories, as illustrated in Figure 1:…”

Pharmacy Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Review of the Literature

“…Dessing and Flameling have argued that universal ethical principles apply to both business persons and professional practitioners (care providers) [13] (and thus the distinction between the two sides would be irrelevant), but their proposition is more "what ought be" rather than "what is," and there are data indicating that a discrepancy between values and facts may in fact exist, despite the fact that a business ethics has been recognized and developed in the past decades [14].…”