Reinforcing Ethical Decision Making through Corporate Culture

Behaving ethically depends on the ability to recognize that ethical issues exist, to see from an ethical point of view. This ability to see and respond ethically may be related more to attributes of corporate culture than to attributes of individual employees. Efforts to increase ethical standards a...

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Published inJournal of business ethics Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 855 - 865
Main Authors Chen, Al Y. S., Sawyers, Roby B., Williams, Paul F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.06.1997
D. Reidel Pub. Co
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Business ethics
Business management
Business structures
Capital budgeting
Corporate culture
Corporate responsibility
Court decisions
Decision making
Employees
Ethical behavior
Ethical codes
Ethical wills
Ethics
Management techniques
Metaphor
Quality control
Queuing theory
Reading
Social ethics
Studies
Total quality
Total quality management
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Summary:Behaving ethically depends on the ability to recognize that ethical issues exist, to see from an ethical point of view. This ability to see and respond ethically may be related more to attributes of corporate culture than to attributes of individual employees. Efforts to increase ethical standards and decrease pressure to behave unethically should therefore concentrate on the organization and its culture. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how total quality (TQ) techniques can facilitate the development of a cooperative corporate culture that promotes and encourages ethical behavior throughout an organization.
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ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1023/A:1017953517947