Ethical Sensitivity for Organizational Communication Issues: Examining Individual and Organizational Differences

Swenson-Lepper, Tammy

doi:10.1007/s10551-005-2925-y

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“…As proposed in human capital theory (Becker, 1964), formal education is a short-hand signal to organizations of individuals' abilities, accumulated knowledge, and desired personal attributes like diligence (Ceci, 1991;Swenson-Lepper, 2005). As such, formal education is highly rewarded in the labor market.…”

Section: Education Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationships of Age With Job Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis

Feldman

2010

Personnel Psychology

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Although organizational research on age has largely focused on the age-performance relationship, the relationships between age and job attitudes have received less attention. Guided by socioemotional selectivity theory, this paper provides a comprehensive meta-analysis of the relationships of chronological age with the 35 job attitudes most frequently studied as its correlates. Results of meta-analyses from more than 800 articles indicate that the relationships between chronological age and favorable attitudes (and/or to less unfavorable attitudes) toward work tasks, colleagues and supervisors, and organizations are generally significant and weak to moderate in strength. Moderator analyses also revealed that organizational tenure, race, gender, education level, and publication year of study moderate the relationships between age and job attitudes. Based on these findings, we make recommendations for future theory development and empirical research on age in organizational settings. We also discuss the implications of our findings for practice.

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Section: Education Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationships of Age With Job Attitudes: A Meta-Analysis

Feldman

2010

Personnel Psychology

570

437

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“…On the individual level, Scott and Willits () also identify education as the strongest predictor of proenvironmental tendencies in a person's behavior and opinions. Based on his research, Swenson‐Lepper () comes to the conclusion that education appears to be an aspect that influences an individual's ethical sensitivity strongly. This finding receives support by Hillcoat, Forge, Fien, and Baker (), who conduct focus group interviews and find that with increasing education and awareness young people report to feel more empowered to engage in proenvironmental behavior.…”

Section: Choice and Calibration Of Antecedent Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illustrating the Power of fsQCA in Explaining Paradoxical Consumer Environmental Orientations

Schmitt

Grawe

Woodside

2017

Psychology and Marketing

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Prior research on proenvironmental and prosocial behavior focuses primarily on explaining consistent rather than paradoxical tendencies. Even though this field receives wide attention from different scientific disciplines, findings for many causal factors of such proenvironmental orientation are contradictory. Nevertheless, knowing who those individuals are who think and behave in a pro-/antienvironmental way or show a paradoxical behavior in this regard becomes useful for many different parties in human societies including public policy makers, governmental and nongovernmental environmental protection organizations, and for-profit firms. Therefore, this study identifies those individuals who show neither consistent proenvironmental nor consistent antienvironmental tendencies as the "walkers-only" and "talkers-only" (i.e., for short, "walkers" and "talkers"). The former are defined as persons who put much effort into the recycling of waste materials but do not support pollution standards, whereas the latter term describes individuals who have a strong opinion with regard to the support of pollution standards yet do not engage in recycling efforts. The present study reports evidence of the existence of walkers and talkers. Further, this research is the first study to employ "fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis" to identify the complex antecedent conditions for some individuals' paradoxical belief-behaviors in the field of socially and environmentally directed behaviors and orientations. The findings yield valuable insights both into the applicability and benefits of configural analysis and for public policy makers and managers in waste management and recycling industries.

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“…Research by Bebeau (1994) on ethical sensitivity in the field of dentistry indicated that individuals in professional areas that require higher education (dentist versus hygienist) incline to demonstrate higher levels of ethical sensitivity. Using a cognitive mapping technique, Swenson-Lepper (2005) found that level of education is positively correlated with moral sensitivity. Examining major factors influencing consumers' intention to buy advertised green products, Chan (2004) argued that consumers' educational level is a significant determinant of green purchase intention.…”

Section: Educational Level and Environmental Performancementioning

confidence: 99%