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Ethical Judgments of Business Students

其他書名	The Affects of Age, Gender, Academic Major and Religiosity
出版	Argosy University, 2003
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OpxEzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Any unethical decision can have a negative impact on a company's productivity, profits, stock price, employee morale, and public image. Ever since business ethics began garnering public attention via the scandals of the 1970s, the principal response for remedying the situation has been to turn to educators. Recently, an increasing number of studies, articles and interviews have focused on ethical attitudes, behavior and the factors (i.e., age, gender, major) that contribute to individual differences in ethical beliefs and judgments. Little research, however, has been conducted examining the effects of factors affecting the ethical judgment of students attending Christian colleges. The purpose of this study was to determine if differences exist across age, gender, academic major, and religiosity as relates to ethical judgment of business students attending a Christian liberal arts university. Survey data of 280 students was collected from a Christian university located in West Tennessee. The student's responses to six ethical scenarios were measured via Reidenbach and Robin's (1990) Multidimensional Ethics Scale (MES). Subjects were also asked to complete Gorsuch and McPherson's (1989) Intrinsic/Extrinsic-Revised (I/E-R) scaled comprised of 14 items designed to measure religiosity. No significant differences were found in ethical judgments based on gender and major but a scenario effects was observed suggesting that moral intensity plays a significant role with regard to ethical intent. The significant results of this study suggest that older students are more ethical than younger students. Furthermore, significant results suggest that the more intrinsically religious a student is, the more ethical they seem to be.