The purpose of this study is to investigate the ethical attitudes of teachers and teacher students, based on administrative ethics and personal ethics, regarding the implementation of the duty to inform. Additionally we aim to explore what the respondents consider acceptable behavior towards the duty to inform, based on the governance reactions of loyalty, protest, obstruction, and exit. To achieve this we have designed the study using a qualitative method, where semi-structured interviews have been used to collect empirical data. Utilizing Lennart Lundquist's theory on the ethical attitudes of civil servants and governance reactions, we have employed it as a theoretical framework to analyze the respondents' answers. The interviews indicate that the respondents predominantly hold an administrative ethical approach towards the implementation of the duty to inform, although there are a few respondents with a personal ethical approach. Regarding governance reactions, the majority of respondents consider loyalty, protest, obstruction, and exit as acceptable behaviors towards the duty to inform. However, two teacher students express a differing opinion, stating that exit is not an acceptable behavior. Additionally, two teachers were unable to provide a specific answer regarding obstruction and exit as acceptable behaviors towards the duty to inform. / Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka lärare och lärarstudenters etiska förhållningssätt, utifrån förvaltningsetik och egenetik, gällande implementeringen av informationsplikten. Dessutom vad respondenterna uttrycker vara acceptabla ageranden mot informationsplikten, utifrån styrningsreaktionerna: lojalitet, protest, obstruktion och sorti. För att ta reda på detta har studien utgått från en kvalitativ metod. Där semistrukturerade samtalsintervjuer har blivit metoden för insamlandet av empirisk data. Med hjälp av Lennart Lundquists teori om tjänstepersoners etiska förhållningssätt och styrningsreaktioner har vi kunnat använda detta som teoretiskt verktyg för att analysera respondenternas svar. Det framgår av intervjuerna att respondenterna har ett övervägande förvaltningsetiskt förhållningssätt till implementeringen av informationsplikten, dock finns det ett fåtal respondenter som har egenetiskt förhållningssätt. Gällande styrningsreaktionerna anser majoriteten av respondenter att lojalitet, protest, obstruktion och sorti är acceptabla ageranden mot informationsplikten. De som har en avvikande åsikt är två lärarstudenter som anser att sorti inte är ett accepterat agerande. Även två lärare som inte kunde ge ett konkret svar om obstruktion och sorti är acceptabla ageranden mot informationsplikten.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:48:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 53589.pdf.jpg: 16130 bytes, checksum: 560dbb0481e89198849ed721c3ba20c3 (MD5) 53589.pdf.txt: 401196 bytes, checksum: bb1a62e1ac5c7b12faaa8117bd9282ce (MD5) 53589.pdf: 1869853 bytes, checksum: 214d0c985e913f3e72b875353bdc5404 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z / Este trabalho aborda os conceitos de Ética nos Negócios e Ética Pessoal, usando como base a Ética das Virtudes de Robert Solomon, oriunda da abordagem Aristotélica. Discorre sobre conceitos como Valores, Atitudes e Comportamentos, bem como Dissonância Cognitiva e Tomada de Decisão. A coerência da Ética nos Negócios e da Ética Pessoal leva à integridade, a maior das virtudes. Com base no referencial teórico, foi realizada uma pesquisa que tinha por objetivo verificar a coerência entre os comportamentos de executivos na vida pessoal e na vida profissional. Os resultados desta pesquisa indicaram que não existe convergência total entre os comportamentos dos executivos na vida pessoal e na vida profissional. / The coherence between business and personal ethics leads to integrity, which builds the character and is the greatest virtue on any business or personal environment. This survey explores general concepts on Business Ethics and Personal Ethics and is based on Robert C. Solomon’s Virtue Ethics, which was developed from the Aristotelian approach. Concepts such as human values, attitudes and behavior as well as cognitive dissonance and decision-making are explained. A research intended to assess the coherence between the executive’s behavior in the enterprise when exposed to a professional situation and the executive’s behavior in this same situation in his personal life. The results of how an executive reacts in his business environment in contrast to how he responds in his private life, revealed two different paths, which do not totally converge.