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Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26569 Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students Price, Gavin ichelp@gibs.co.za Van der Walt, Andries Johannes UCTD Attitutes Business ethics South africa Longitudinal study Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The objective of this study was to assess whether, and how, the attitudes towards business ethics of South African business students have changed between the early 1990s and 2010. The research was conducted as a cohort study utilising the same instrument, the Attitudes towards Business Ethics Questionnaire (ATBEQ). This study compared the results of the survey of the MBA alumni of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), to the published results from a similar study at Rhodes University from the early 1990s. The study found a significant change in attitudes, with a trend towards stronger opinions, on business ethics and espoused values. A factor analysis of the responses showed eleven factors although it was less able to explain the variation in the attitudes than the previous study. A significant change in the rankings of variables also indicated a shift in priorities. These results indicated a shift towards a teleological moral philosophy as well as utilitarian motives. This shows a clear trend towards compliance-based ethics which can be explained by the proliferation of business legislation and regulation in the wake of recent corporate governance failures and the subsequent global financial crisis. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T06:37:36Z 2011-10-04 2013-09-07T06:37:36Z 2011-04-12 2010 2011-07-23 Dissertation Van der Walt, AJ 2010, Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26569 > F11/588/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26569 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07232011-124552/ © 2010 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 Pretori application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Attitutes Business ethics South africa Longitudinal study Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title | Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title_full | Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title_fullStr | Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title_short | Changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past South African business management students |
| title_sort | changes in attitudes towards business ethics held by past south african business management students |
| topic | UCTD Attitutes Business ethics South africa Longitudinal study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26569 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07232011-124552/ |