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Business Ethics And Industry In The Corporate World

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Content Inside: 2007 IABR (Business) & TLC (Teaching) Conference Proceedings Mazatlan Mexico 1 Business Ethics And Industry In The Corporate World Almerinda Forte St. Johns University ABSTRACT Business ethics especially among top managers has become a topic of concern to the public and business community. As a result much attention has focused on the development of moral reasoning in corporate individuals. Past research examining individual and business decision behavior indicates that organizational-level variables have a significant impact on individual decisions. Since managers decisions impact organizational goals and organizational ethical behavior this researcher investigated the degree to which there are differences in the moral reasoning ability of business managers of selected industries. A statistically significant relationship was found between the selected demographics (industry types and gender) when regressed against the moral reasoning of individual managers. The regression analysis showed the strongest contributing factor to the variance in P scores was industry types (Beta = -1.827 p<.05). The second strongest contributing factor was gender (Beta = -5.735 p<.05). The variables industry and gender explains only 4.6% of the variations in the dependent variable P score from Rests DIT test. A reported R square of .023 for industry types F = 4.995 and p value .026. A reported R square for industry types and gender of .046 F = 5.057 and p value .007. The independent variables found a weak statistical significance. No statistically significant relationship was found between an individuals locus of control age work tenure management levels education and the five perceived ethical climate types to the moral reasoning ability of individual managers. The implication of this finding is that managers or executive level employees should keep in mind that gender and the industry experience of a new employee might have an impact on his/her moral ...

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