Defining ‘business ethics’: Like nailing jello to a wall

Lewis, Phillip V.

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“…Specifically, the definition of ethical business behaviour proposed by Lewis (1985) was used to define ethical practices as behaviours that indicate the use of "rules, standards, codes, or principles which provide guidelines for morally right behaviour and truthfulness in specific situations" (p. 381). In the present study, comments suggesting that participants demonstrated the application of ethical rules and principles within a commercial context and considered them important in running a business were categorised as "ethical practices".…”

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Xu¹

2009

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“…In a broad sense, ethics is a set of moral principles and values that governs the behaviors of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong. Ethics sets standards as to what is good or bad in conduct and decision making (Lewis, 1985, andCovey, S.R., 1991).…”

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The Reality of Ethics and the Ways of strengthening them to Prevent Corruption

Muhammad¹,

Mustafa²

2017

JUHD

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This study highlights the concept of management ethics and its role in the prevention of corruption. Generally, it is an attempt to put the approach to the management ethics and strengthen the moral culture that pious of corruption which had widespread within the developing countries since decades. In this study, the descriptive analysis methodology has been used. The data on the dimensions of the study is collected through a review of the relevant literature and previous studies. The research results showed that the individual morality building and ethics compliances have a vital role in preventing corruption rather than uncovering and exposing the involved persons too late. The bottom line is the construction of the ethics of the administration less costs than the demolition of corruption. Based on the results of the study, the researchers recommend a number of management ethics measures for the prevention of administrative corruption. The respondents preferred the implicit forms more than the explicit form. Among the best explicit forms that have been chosen, they prefer the training and education of ethics, the search for the causes of immoral acts and the crafting of codes of ethics respectively. Overall recommendations call for an important point which can be named as institutionalizing for ethics through a number of implicit and explicit measures.

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“…Ethics can be explained as the just or appropriate standards of behaviour by individuals in certain conditions (Runes, 1964;Trevin˜o et al, 2014;Sekerka et al, 2014). Synthesising different definitions, Lewis (1985) defines business ethics as comprising the rules, standards, principles or codes that give guidelines for morally right behaviour and truthfulness in a specific situation. Ethics is a philosophical term derived from the Greek word "ethos" meaning character or custom.…”

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The impact of organisational justice on ethical behaviour

Shah

Anwar

Irani

2017

IJBIR

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Within the workplace, justice is influenced by the interpersonal relationships between colleagues and/or management among other things. The main reason for this research is to examine the correlation between organisational justice and the ethical behaviour of employees. Based on the literature, the conceptual model developed in this paper integrates distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational justice in relation to ethical behaviour. By applying an adapted survey questionnaire, data were collected from teaching staff at public sector higher education institutions. Multiple regression analysis was applied to 360 samples and this showed that distributive and procedural justice have a more positive and significant impact than informational and interpersonal justice on the ethical behaviour of employees. This is an empirical study which may contribute to the literature on ethical behaviour, organisational development and employee development.

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Defining ‘business ethics’: Like nailing jello to a wall

Cited by 248 publications

References 10 publications

Vol. 2, No. 4, October 2009. All in one file.

Vol. 2, No. 4, October 2009. All in one file.

The Reality of Ethics and the Ways of strengthening them to Prevent Corruption

The impact of organisational justice on ethical behaviour

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