Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-112). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-112). Also available on the Internet.

<p>Abstract The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore how department chairs described the influence of recent corporate ethics scandals on content and availability of ethics education in postsecondary business schools in Arizona. The following research questions guided this study: RQ1: How do department chairs describe the influence of recent corporate ethics scandals on the content of ethics education in postsecondary business schools in Arizona? RQ2: How do department chairs describe the influence of recent corporate ethics scandals on the availability of ethics education in postsecondary business schools in Arizona? RQ3: How do department chairs feel that ethics education can be improved in postsecondary business schools in Arizona? R4: How have postsecondary business schools in the state of Arizona changed their ethics curriculum in response to recent corporate ethics scandals? The sample for this study was 9 department chairs out of 40 in postsecondary schools in Arizona that offer business degrees. It was important for the purpose of this study to focus on department chairs, because of their direct involvement in the management of their business degree programs (i.e., design and accreditation of required curriculum), faculty, and business schools. The Hosmer and Kiewitz managerial ethics theory provided the foundation of this research. The data analysis procedure chosen was the thematic analysis from the triangulation of three data sources. The results found that a higher number of participants perceived that recent corporate ethics scandals did have an influence on content and availability of ethics education. Keywords: ethics, education, business, management, Arizona, scandal, corporate, social responsibility, post-secondary education

Siekiant skatinti valstybės tarnautojus vadovautis nustatytais etikos standartais, užtikrinti etišką jų elgesį profesinėje veikloje, užkirsti kelią etinių problemų atsiradimui ir plitimui valstybės tarnyboje, reikalinga vadybinė perspektyva, t.y. etikos valdymas, padedantis pasiekti aukštesnių elgesio standartų, kelti valstybės tarnautojų profesionalumo lygį, didinti visuomenės pasitikėjimą valdžia ir jos institucijomis, formuoti teigiamą valstybės tarnybos įvaizdį. Darbe analizuojama etikos valdymo problematika bei tobulinimo galimybės Lietuvos valstybės tarnyboje. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti etikos valdymo priemonių sklaidą ir jų realizavimą Lietuvos valstybės tarnyboje. Tikslui pasiekti keliami šie uždaviniai: apibrėžti etikos sampratą mokslinių diskursų kontekste, atskleidžiant jos svarbą valstybės tarnyboje; įvardinti etikos valdymo priemones, padedančias užtikrinti nustatytų etikos standartų laikymąsi valstybės tarnyboje; įvertinti etikos valdymo institucinę ir įstatyminę infrastruktūrą Lietuvos valstybės tarnyboje; atskleisti etikos valdymo tobulinimo galimybes Lietuvos valstybės tarnyboje. Darbe naudoti metodai – mokslinės literatūros, teisės aktų ir dokumentų analizė bei kokybinis tyrimas – pusiau struktūruotas interviu. Atliktas tyrimas atskleidė, kad Lietuvos valstybės tarnyboje etika užtikrinama teisiniu reglamentavimu, institucine priežiūra, įvadiniu valstybės tarnautojų mokymu. Tačiau tai nėra pakankamai veiksmingos priemonės, užtikrinančios etinių standartų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In order to induce state servants to follow the established standards of ethics, to guarantee their ethical behavior in professional activity, to prevent the emergence of ethical problems and their spread in state service, managerial perspective is necessary, i.e. ethics management, which helps to achieve higher standards of behavior, to raise the level of professionalism of civil servants, to increase public confidence in the government and its institutions, to form positive image of state service. The work elaborates on the problems of ethics management and its improvement opportunities in Lithuanian state service. The aim of the work is to analyze the spread of ethics management measures and their realization in Lithuanian state service. The following objectives were set to achieve the aim: to define the concept of ethics in the context of scientific discussions by revealing its significance in the state service; to list ethics management measures that contribute to the guarantee of observance of established ethical standards in the state service; to evaluate ethics management institutional and legitimate infrastructure in Lithuanian state service; to reveal ethics management improvement opportunities in Lithuanian state service. Methods used in the work are: analysis of scientific literature, legal acts and documents, qualitative research – semi-structured interview. The research revealed that ethics in Lithuanian state service is guaranteed by legal regulation... [to full text]

Submitted by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-11T16:08:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento, Eliana Silva..pdf: 932842 bytes, checksum: 6bc846db759e49e8116975b586cea427 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-11T16:09:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento, Eliana Silva..pdf: 932842 bytes, checksum: 6bc846db759e49e8116975b586cea427 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-11T16:09:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento, Eliana Silva..pdf: 932842 bytes, checksum: 6bc846db759e49e8116975b586cea427 (MD5) / O presente trabalho analisa a atuação da Comissão de Ética do Instituto Federal da Bahia, pautada nas normativas que orientam sua constituição e funcionamento, e com base na concepção de ética aplicada à administração pública, que contempla funções de natureza educativa, consultiva, preventiva, conciliadora e punitiva. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, de natureza qualitativa, que utiliza da estratégia de estudo de caso, buscando analisar as ações desenvolvidas pela Comissão de Ética Setorial em funcionamento desde o ano de 2007, bem como os pontos críticos e os desafios colocados para esta comissão, na perspectiva dos servidores do Instituto e dos membros da Comissão, além da análise dos processos encaminhados pelos servidores à Comissão. Foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados questionário com perguntas fechadas e abertas enviado online para os servidores com endereço eletrônico cadastrados no IFBA, entrevistas semiestruturadas com os membros da Comissão de Ética e análise de documentos. Foi também utilizada à observação participante considerando que a autora da pesquisa é membro desta Comissão de Ética. Os resultados obtidos apontam entre outras questões, para um número expressivo de servidores que desconhecem a existência e o papel da Comissão de Ética. Entre os que conhecem a Comissão a maioria considera que as suas ações são mais de natureza preventivas/educativas do que punitivas. Contudo, a maioria dos servidores explicita que já sentiu necessidade de procurar a Comissão de Ética para denunciar problemas de conduta “não ética” mas teve receio e medo de represálias, evidenciando o caráter punitivo que ainda permeia a questão ética no âmbito da administração pública. Estes resultados reforçam a necessidade de se intensificar o processo de divulgação e capacitação dos servidores com relação à Gestão da Ética Pública, bem como a implementação de ações conjuntas com as Diretorias Sistêmicas do Instituto, por considerar que a educação para a ética pública é tarefa de toda a instituição. / This paper analyzes the role of the Ethics Committee of the Federal Institute of Bahia, based on the regulations that guide its establishment and operation, and based on the conception of ethics applied to public administration, which includes educational nature functions, consultancy, preventive, conciliatory and punitive. This is an exploratory, qualitative, using the case study strategy, trying to analyze the actions taken by the Ethics Committee Sector in operation since 2007 and the critical points and challenges for this committee with a view of the servers of the Institute and members of the Commission, as well as analysis of cases transferred by the servers to the Commission. Were used as questionnaire data collection instruments with closed and open questions sent online to the servers with electronic registered address in the IFBA, semi-structured interviews with members of the Ethics Committee and document analysis. It was also used participant observation considering that the author of the research is member of the Ethics Committee. The results show among other things, for a significant number of servers that are unaware of the existence and the role of the Ethics Committee. Among those who know the Commission most consider that their actions are more preventive / educational nature than punitive. However, most of the servers specifies that already felt the need to search for the Ethics Committee to report conduct problems "unethical" but was afraid and fear of reprisals, showing the punitive character that still permeates the ethics in public administration. These results reinforce the need to intensify the process of disclosure and skilled workers in relation to the Management of Public Ethics and the implementation of joint actions with Systemic Directors of the Institute, considering that education for public ethics is task the entire institution.

Este trabajo es una investigación cualitativa, no experimental, de nivel descriptivo. Se estudia la ética empresarial en una universidad no licenciada, con el objeto de conocer el trasfondo ético de la universidad en sus distintos niveles jerárquicos, conectando a su vez la consecuencia del no licenciamiento. Se hizo la pregunta de investigación «¿Cuál es la gestión de la ética empresarial que afecta a una universidad particular no licenciada?» La población fue una universidad particular no licenciada, el muestreo es no probabilístico por conveniencia, la unidad de análisis es un total de 14 colaboradores administrativos y docentes. / This work is a qualitative, non-experimental, descriptive research. It studies business ethics in an unlicensed university in order to know the ethical background of the university in its different hierarchical levels, at the same time connecting the consequence of non-licensing. The research question was formulated "What is the management of business ethics, which affects a particular unlicensed university?" The population was a private unlicensed university, the sampling is non-probabilistic for convenience, the unit of analysis is a total of 14 administrative and teaching collaborators.

This thesis presents a contribution to exploration of the business ethics area from the psychological point of view with focus on multidisciplinary character of the subject. The empirical part brings mapping study describing the implementation of the business ethics management system and its impacts on the employees' approaches using example of the specific company. The thesis tries to capture which company functions and operations are covered by the code of ethics, what steps and process were taken when implementing the code, if the implementation of the code influenced employees' approaches and relation to the employer and if the implementation of the code influenced the ways how employees solved their moral dilemmas. The qualitative research part of the thesis uses semi-structured interviews, company documents analysis and observation.

The New Testament as a source of mediated ethical inspiration in literature management bestsellers. Contemporary management literature produced predominantly in the so-called western civilization circle, which is heavily influenced by Christianity. Work is to find and identify ethical inspiration coming mediated from the New Testament of the Bible into the centroid of managerial concepts described in three management bestsellers. As the titles were chosen Good to Great by Jim Collins, Competitive Advantage by Michael E. Porter and Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The intention is also to achieve overlaps from selected bestseller managers into practical situations and examples that illustrate the elements of business management. The work is to find examples for explaining the positions of the authors in the light of mediated New Testament inspiration. We stand before the question of whether we can demonstrate to the attitudes of the authors the ethical significance of the concept of management and to underpin it by aligning with the ethical principles that we can guess from the interpretations of the New Testament. For selected bestseller, we try to find elements of managerial decision concepts that suggest that they are in agreement with ethical inspiration coming from the New Testament. We...

The South African Government in 2002 accepted the Public Service Anti-Corruption Strategy (PSACS) with the objective to reduce the manifestation of malfeasance in the public service. The PSACS identified various goals and objectives to be achieved at both the systemic and departmental levels. At the departmental level, the PSACS set out to increase the institutional capacity of departmental institutions, and encourage the management of risk and of discipline in the public service. Departments are required to establish the necessary capacity to formulate fraud prevention and anti-corruption policies, receive and manage allegations of corruption, and investigate allegations of corruption and detected risks at a preliminary level. To manage ethics departments should inter alia identify early signs of a lack of discipline, improve the accountability and capacity of managers to manage discipline, and encourage managers to act against transgressions. However, various authors have been critical of the formulation of policies and the establishment of structures as a policy response to public service corruption. In their view, such an approach often leads to a reduction in the efficiency and effectiveness of public programmes, and even creates opportunities for corruption. In response to such deficiencies, some argue that a compliance-based approach to public service malfeasance should be supplemented by a value-based approach with an emphasis on the development of internal selfcontrol of individuals, the promotion of trust among employees, and the promotion of a culture of responsibility. In this context, this researcher proposes that the promotion of an ethical culture could enhance the implementation of the PSACS. In this dissertation, this researcher set out to evaluate, among others, the ethical culture of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). It was decided that a survey would be the most appropriate data collection method. A questionnaire was administered and the data was captured, analysed and interpreted. Various statistical tests were performed and the findings suggest inter alia that the promotion of an ethical culture coincides with lower levels of observed malfeasance. Consequently, when greater clarity of operational and ethics policies is obtained, an increase occurs in both the severity and frequency of penalties for malfeasance, and officials gain greater access to resources and time to execute their responsibilities, the level of observed malfeasance is likely to be reduced. The promotion of an ethical culture could significantly enhance the implementation of the PSACS. / Public Administration / D. Litt. et Phil. (Public Administration)

The South African Government in 2002 accepted the Public Service Anti-Corruption Strategy (PSACS) with the objective to reduce the manifestation of malfeasance in the public service. The PSACS identified various goals and objectives to be achieved at both the systemic and departmental levels. At the departmental level, the PSACS set out to increase the institutional capacity of departmental institutions, and encourage the management of risk and of discipline in the public service. Departments are required to establish the necessary capacity to formulate fraud prevention and anti-corruption policies, receive and manage allegations of corruption, and investigate allegations of corruption and detected risks at a preliminary level. To manage ethics departments should inter alia identify early signs of a lack of discipline, improve the accountability and capacity of managers to manage discipline, and encourage managers to act against transgressions. However, various authors have been critical of the formulation of policies and the establishment of structures as a policy response to public service corruption. In their view, such an approach often leads to a reduction in the efficiency and effectiveness of public programmes, and even creates opportunities for corruption. In response to such deficiencies, some argue that a compliance-based approach to public service malfeasance should be supplemented by a value-based approach with an emphasis on the development of internal selfcontrol of individuals, the promotion of trust among employees, and the promotion of a culture of responsibility. In this context, this researcher proposes that the promotion of an ethical culture could enhance the implementation of the PSACS. In this dissertation, this researcher set out to evaluate, among others, the ethical culture of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). It was decided that a survey would be the most appropriate data collection method. A questionnaire was administered and the data was captured, analysed and interpreted. Various statistical tests were performed and the findings suggest inter alia that the promotion of an ethical culture coincides with lower levels of observed malfeasance. Consequently, when greater clarity of operational and ethics policies is obtained, an increase occurs in both the severity and frequency of penalties for malfeasance, and officials gain greater access to resources and time to execute their responsibilities, the level of observed malfeasance is likely to be reduced. The promotion of an ethical culture could significantly enhance the implementation of the PSACS. / Public Administration and Management / D. Litt. et Phil. (Public Administration)