An investigation into the acceptability of workplace behaviors of a dubious ethical nature

Mudrack, Peter E.

doi:10.1007/bf00872373

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“…There are also other studies conducted with university students that indicated no significant gender differences, the major ones being Hegarty and Sims (1978), McCuddy and Peery (1996), Mudrack (1993), Sankaran and Tung (2003), Stanga and Turpen (1991), and White and Dooley (1993).…”

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confidence: 92%

An Empirical Investigation of the Ethical Perceptions of Future Managers with a Special Emphasis on Gender – Turkish Case

2007

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This study presents an empirical investigation of the ethical perceptions of the future managersTurkish university students majoring in the Business Administration and Industrial Engineering departments of selected public and private Turkish universities -with a special emphasis on gender. The perceptions of the university students pertaining to the business world, the behaviors of employees, and the factors leading to unethical behavior are analyzed. The statistically significant differences reveal that female students have more ethical perceptions about the Turkish business climate, behavior of employees, and the ethicalness of the behavior of the employees in comparison with their male counterparts.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 92%

An Empirical Investigation of the Ethical Perceptions of Future Managers with a Special Emphasis on Gender – Turkish Case

2007

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“…Results showed that making copies on the company machine was one of the more unacceptable activities presented, especially for those in the ''presidential'' context. Mudrack (1993) assessed these same 10 items across two studies and concluded that they were generally viewed as more unacceptable than acceptable and without a connection to actual managerial status. While neither Jones (1990) nor Mudrack (1993) specifically assessed the acceptability of copying materials using audiocassette recorders or VCRs within the workplace, we have grouped these technologies due to the possibility that each can produce a high quality copy but not a copy that is indistinguishable from the original.…”

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The Relationship Between General Ethical Judgments and Copying Behavior at Work

2004

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Electronic technologies, in general, and computer-oriented technologies specifically have had a tremendous impact on all aspects of business. One area of increased concern is the protection of intellectual properties -notably copyrights -within the boundaries of the broadly defined technology industry. While the ability to share copyrighted information has always existed at the most basic levels, the advent of the information age has allowed the sharing of this information to take place in potentially greater quantities and without a loss of quality. As such, copying creates a major threat to industries dealing in the production and distribution of copyrightable creations. The focus of this paper is to better understand how the ethical judgments of employees regarding the opportunities to recreate copyrighted works via traditional and newer technologies impact assessments of copying behavior in the workplace.

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“…It is an amoral approach that ignores the needs and rights of others and a general interpersonal strategy of employing devious, manipulative tactics (Calhoon, 1969;Robinson and Shaver, 1973) for personal gain . Machiavellians see nothing wrong with stealing (Harrell and Hartnagel, 1976), cheating (Flynn et al, 1987), or lying (Fletcher, 1990) in their own self-interest (Mudrack, 1993). They lean more toward decisions suggested by an unethical person than toward those proffered by an ethical individual (Wayne and Rubinstein, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

Winter

Stylianou

Giacalone

2004

Journal of Business Ethics

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While information technologies present organizations with opportunities to become more competitive, unsettled social norms and lagging legislation guiding the use of these technologies present organizations and individuals with ethical dilemmas. This paper presents two studies investigating the relationship between intellectual property and privacy attitudes, Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology, and working in R&D and computer literacy in the form of programming experience. In Study 1, Machiavellians believed it was more acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Programmers and R&D workers considered violating intellectual property rights more acceptable. Programmers did not consider violating privacy rights more acceptable, but R&D workers did. Finally, there was an interaction between Machiavellianism, programming and R&D. Machiavellians who also had programming experience or worked in R&D found violations of intellectual property much more acceptable. The effect of Machiavellianism on attitudes toward violations of privacy was enhanced by working in R&D, but not by programming experience. In Study 2, idealists believed it was less acceptable to ignore the intellectual property and privacy rights of others. Relativists found it more acceptable to violate intellectual property rights, though they did not consider it more acceptable to violate privacy rights. Those with programming experience were more accepting of intellectual property rights violations, but not of privacy violations. Finally, programming experience moderated the relationship between idealism, relativism and attitudes toward these unethical information practices. Implications for diminishing unethical behavior among Machiavellians, Relativists, programmers and those in R&D are discussed.

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An investigation into the acceptability of workplace behaviors of a dubious ethical nature

Cited by 44 publications

References 48 publications

An Empirical Investigation of the Ethical Perceptions of Future Managers with a Special Emphasis on Gender – Turkish Case

An Empirical Investigation of the Ethical Perceptions of Future Managers with a Special Emphasis on Gender – Turkish Case

The Relationship Between General Ethical Judgments and Copying Behavior at Work

Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Unethical Information Technology Practices: The Case of Machiavellianism and Ethical Ideology

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