Managers are constantly making ethical decisions whether consciously or tacitly. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if certain organizational and personal strategic decisions would cause decision makers to act more or less ethically. Additionally, this study was to ascertain if changes or turbulence in the organizational environment would cause managers to act less ethically. Finally, this study sought to reveal if any demographic characteristics of the decision maker would be pertinent in predicting decision making patterns of managers. Using a questionnaire which consisted of four vignettes which depicted actual business situations, data was collected from 171 managers. The results definitely confirmed that managers will vary their level of ethical response when the strategic issues change and/or environmental turbulence increases. The reasons for these changes were primarily issues of organizational survival, personal job enhancement, and personal economic survival. Thus, some degree of ethical elasticity was confirmed. While statistically significant supporting evidence was not revealed for the influence of demographic variable, the results did indicate that gender and age could be factors. No significant interactions were revealed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0876. / Major Professor: Tim Matherly. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76579 |
| Contributors | Couch, Grantham., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 180 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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