Business Ethics, Social Responsibility and AIDS in Workplaces in Zimbabwe
type: CreativeWork
description: Understanding AIDS policies and programs small and medium businesses implement to combat the epidemic at workplaces enhances effective collaboration and the harnessing of appropriate resources among interested stakeholders. Knowing the nature of ethics, business principles and human rights elements helps create a framework for reflecting, formulating and developing appropriate and efficacious policies. This interpretive study analyzes the policies and programs businesses apply to fight AIDS among their employees. It also examines the ethics and human rights elements shaping and determining these policies. The sample of 1066 is comprised of urban small and medium businesses drawn from the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce membership engaged in various commercial and industrial ventures. The policies and programs as well as the ethics and human rights elements shaping the policies were collected through a self-administered. organizational, closed-ended survey questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using quantitative, non-parametric statistical tools such as joint frequency distributions, chisquares, logistics regressions and Mann-Whitney tests. Joint frequency distributions were used to determine relationships between categorical variables such as policies, programs and the types of businesses and ownership. Chi-squares tested the statistical significance of the relationships between various nominal variables. Logistics regressions were conducted to measure the amount of influence that a type of ethic had over a policy. Odds ratios were used for determining the magnitude of clinical relevance in which an ethical theory would determine a policy. The confidence interval of 95% was used for odds ratios. The Mann-Whitney tests of ranks were used to determine the preference of utilitarian, Kantian, African, common good and rights ethics over each other. Applying practical social science of reflecting ethically on the meaning of quantitative data, the study foun…
abstract: Understanding AIDS policies and programs small and medium businesses implement to combat the epidemic at workplaces enhances effective collaboration and the harnessing of appropriate resources among interested stakeholders. Knowing the nature of ethics, business principles and human rights elements helps create a framework for reflecting, formulating and developing appropriate and efficacious policies. This interpretive study analyzes the policies and programs businesses apply to fight AIDS among their employees. It also examines the ethics and human rights elements shaping and determining these policies. The sample of 1066 is comprised of urban small and medium businesses drawn from the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce membership engaged in various commercial and industrial ventures. The policies and programs as well as the ethics and human rights elements shaping the policies were collected through a self-administered. organizational, closed-ended survey questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using quantitative, non-parametric statistical tools such as joint frequency distributions, chisquares, logistics regressions and Mann-Whitney tests. Joint frequency distributions were used to determine relationships between categorical variables such as policies, programs and the types of businesses and ownership. Chi-squares tested the statistical significance of the relationships between various nominal variables. Logistics regressions were conducted to measure the amount of influence that a type of ethic had over a policy. Odds ratios were used for determining the magnitude of clinical relevance in which an ethical theory would determine a policy. The confidence interval of 95% was used for odds ratios. The Mann-Whitney tests of ranks were used to determine the preference of utilitarian, Kantian, African, common good and rights ethics over each other. Applying practical social science of reflecting ethically on the meaning of quantitative data, the study foun…
author: Dzimiri, George Tichaona
language: English
keywords: Social Policy, Social Psychology and Interaction, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Zimbabwe; Organization Policy; Social Responsibility; Workplace -- psychology -- Zimbabwe; Ethics, Business -- Zimbabwe.
date published: 2007-06-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:53:31Z
provider: Loma Linda University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Loma Linda University