The influence of organizational rank and role on marketing professionals' ethical judgments

Ethical Judgments in Business Ethics Research: Definition, and Research Agenda

“…Scales are anchored in a variety of ways that gage responses to some described behavior. Anchors include level of agreement (i.e., ''strongly disagree'' to ''strongly agree''; DuPont and Craig, 1996;Honeycutt et al, 2001), acceptability (i.e., ''never acceptable'' to ''always acceptable''; Weeks et al, 2005), ethicality (i.e., ''very unethical'' to ''very acceptable''; Hunt and Vasquez-Parraga 1993;DeConinck and Lewis, 1997), and frequency (i.e., ''never'' to ''often''; Akaah, 1996). In each instance, the scales imply that the construct may vary in intensity along a continuous range of values.…”

The Ethics of Organizations: A Longitudinal Study of the U.S. Working Population

“…At the time of our first measurement only one scale was available for unethical behavior. However, this scale of 17 items, which was developed by Newstrom and Ruch (1975) and used by others (Akaah, 1996;Treviño, Butterfield, and McCabe, 1998;Jackson and Artola, 1997;Zey-Ferrell and Ferrell, 1982), is limited. Effects.…”

Does Job Function Influence Ethical Reasoning? An Adapted Wason Task Application

“…rank within the various work roles. Rank within the organization, for example, appears to have an effect on marketing professionals' ethical judgments (Akaah, 1996). This finding, while not statistically significant, was substantively significant.…”