The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees

This study involves a first attempt to examine ethical climate types and corporate ethical values and their impacts on ethical decision-making of employees in the oil and gas industry in Australia. A survey methodology is used and results indicate that employees’ perceptions about their organization...

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Main Authors: Woodbine, Gordon, Fan, Ying Han, See, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taiwan Institute of Business Administration 2014
Online Access:http://jtiba.com/html/group-journal.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2988
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description This study involves a first attempt to examine ethical climate types and corporate ethical values and their impacts on ethical decision-making of employees in the oil and gas industry in Australia. A survey methodology is used and results indicate that employees’ perceptions about their organizations’ extant moral tone and punishment systems significantly influence ethical judgments. However, there is no evidence that oil and gas company managers demonstrate unethical behaviour rather it appears that such behaviour is strongly admonished by management. Ethical climate types per se do not appear to be significantly.different from expectations for mature industry firms and are not associated with decision-making.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-29882017-01-30T10:27:42Z The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees Woodbine, Gordon Fan, Ying Han See, H. This study involves a first attempt to examine ethical climate types and corporate ethical values and their impacts on ethical decision-making of employees in the oil and gas industry in Australia. A survey methodology is used and results indicate that employees’ perceptions about their organizations’ extant moral tone and punishment systems significantly influence ethical judgments. However, there is no evidence that oil and gas company managers demonstrate unethical behaviour rather it appears that such behaviour is strongly admonished by management. Ethical climate types per se do not appear to be significantly.different from expectations for mature industry firms and are not associated with decision-making. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2988 http://jtiba.com/html/group-journal.html Taiwan Institute of Business Administration fulltext
spellingShingle Woodbine, Gordon
Fan, Ying Han
See, H.
The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title_full The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title_fullStr The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title_full_unstemmed The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title_short The Moral Business Tone of Organizations and its Impact on the Ethical Decision Making of Employees
title_sort moral business tone of organizations and its impact on the ethical decision making of employees
url http://jtiba.com/html/group-journal.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2988