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Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24633 Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation Price, Gavin upetd@up.ac.za Zwane, Nkosinathi UCTD Business ethics Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Ernst and Young have been identifying regulation and compliance as business’ top three risks for the last three years. Given the increasing ethical challenges in business, most organisations have tried to curb the situation by code of ethics, values, creating new ethics positions, offering compulsory ethics training and creating whistle blowing channels. The key problem identified was the fact that employees don’t always make appropriate decisions on ethical matters in spite of company policies and legislations. In this study, the impact of ethics training on moral judgement has been investigated. Hence the title is ‘evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision making training in a South African organisation.’ Moral judgement was used in the context of Rest (1984) model. Additionally the size of the improvement was benchmarked with other studies. A quasi experiment was conducted to check if there were differences between managers that were trained and those that were not. Data was collected using a self-administered proprietary Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). The test tool has been validated by many scholars. Results showed that there was no difference between trained managers and the control group. Secondly, the offered training did not improve manager’s moral reasoning higher than the benchmark. Recommendations for training review and future research suggestions were made. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:06:12Z 2010-07-09 2013-09-06T18:06:12Z 2010-04-11 2010-07-09 2010-05-13 Dissertation Zwane, N 2009, Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24633 > G10/387/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24633 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05132010-141440/ © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Business ethics Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title | Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title_full | Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title_short | Evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision-making training in a South African organisation |
| title_sort | evaluating the effectiveness of ethical decision making training in a south african organisation |
| topic | UCTD Business ethics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24633 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05132010-141440/ |