Ethical decision making by managers: a policy capturing approach

Realistic scenarios were evaluated to determine whether participants would make ethical/ unethical decisions in the face of various dilemmas. 3 factors were systematically varied throughout 32 different scenarios: accountability, deception, and profitability. A personality variable, locus of control was also explored for its relationship to ethical decision making. Subjects were 25 managers from a national car rental company as well as 21 undergraduate students. In a policy-capturing analysis of the ethical reasoning process., we found neither managers nor students used consistent policies in their decision making. Regression analyses revealed that locus of control orientation did not influence number of ethical decisions made. Implications for the study of ethical decision making are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Department dc:contributor.department

Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1996

Author dc:creator

• Jalbert, Nicole M.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Gustafson, Sigrid B.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Facteau, Jeffrey D.
• Hauenstein, Neil M. A.

• policy capturing
• ethics
• decision making
• locus of control

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-11072008-063138

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/45451