Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry

The study attempted to examine whether personal moral philosophy is significantly correlated with ethical decision making. Besides that this study intended to investigate the moderating effects of gender and their linked between personal moral philosophy and ethical decision making among human resou...

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Main Authors: Chan, Ling Meng, Chelliah, Thamil Durai, Othman, Jamilah, Joned, Rosinah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Institut Kajian Dasar Pertanian dan Makanan, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/1/40982.pdf
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author Chan, Ling Meng
Chelliah, Thamil Durai
Othman, Jamilah
Joned, Rosinah
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Chelliah, Thamil Durai
Othman, Jamilah
Joned, Rosinah
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description The study attempted to examine whether personal moral philosophy is significantly correlated with ethical decision making. Besides that this study intended to investigate the moderating effects of gender and their linked between personal moral philosophy and ethical decision making among human resource practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry. The concern for ethical actions continuously challenges the hotel industry. Interest and complex ethical issues impact this broad business which ranges from restaurant management to senior living to tourism – based operations and beyond. Business ethics remain at the forefront of popular and academic journals as incidents that threaten the ethics fiber of hotel industry. The challenges of human resources practitioners are to exemplify ethical action and to be willing to be held accountable to their management board and to the public for their decision choices (Ardagh & Macklin, 1998). The study attempted to examine whether personal moral philosophy is significantly correlated with ethical decision making. Besides that this study intended to investigate the moderating effects of gender and their linked between personal moral philosophy and ethical decision making among human resource practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry. Results showed that personal moral philosophy and gender differences played significant in ethical judgment. Furthermore, the findings consistently showed that gender influences able to change the ethical belief of HR practitioners in their ethical judgment.
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spelling upm-409822016-07-28T02:35:49Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/ Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry Chan, Ling Meng Chelliah, Thamil Durai Othman, Jamilah Joned, Rosinah The study attempted to examine whether personal moral philosophy is significantly correlated with ethical decision making. Besides that this study intended to investigate the moderating effects of gender and their linked between personal moral philosophy and ethical decision making among human resource practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry. The concern for ethical actions continuously challenges the hotel industry. Interest and complex ethical issues impact this broad business which ranges from restaurant management to senior living to tourism – based operations and beyond. Business ethics remain at the forefront of popular and academic journals as incidents that threaten the ethics fiber of hotel industry. The challenges of human resources practitioners are to exemplify ethical action and to be willing to be held accountable to their management board and to the public for their decision choices (Ardagh & Macklin, 1998). The study attempted to examine whether personal moral philosophy is significantly correlated with ethical decision making. Besides that this study intended to investigate the moderating effects of gender and their linked between personal moral philosophy and ethical decision making among human resource practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry. Results showed that personal moral philosophy and gender differences played significant in ethical judgment. Furthermore, the findings consistently showed that gender influences able to change the ethical belief of HR practitioners in their ethical judgment. Institut Kajian Dasar Pertanian dan Makanan, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/1/40982.pdf Chan, Ling Meng and Chelliah, Thamil Durai and Othman, Jamilah and Joned, Rosinah (2015) Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry. In: International Conference on Natural Resources, Tourism and Services Management 2015, 14-16 Apr. 2015, Hotel Promenade, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (pp. 503-511). http://www.ikdpm.upm.edu.my/dokumen/IKDPM_Proceeding_ICNTS2015.pdf
spellingShingle Chan, Ling Meng
Chelliah, Thamil Durai
Othman, Jamilah
Joned, Rosinah
Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title_full Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title_fullStr Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title_full_unstemmed Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title_short Moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on HR practitioners in Malaysia hotel industry
title_sort moderating effect of gender on the relationship of personal moral philosophy with ethical decision making: case study on hr practitioners in malaysia hotel industry
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40982/1/40982.pdf