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The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Gordon Institute of Business Science, 2013
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/42029 The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity Verster, John ichelp@gibs.co.za Huysamen, Gert Gavin, Price Ethics -- Business enterprises Business ethics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Gordon Institute of Business Science, 2013 Available theory suggests that both issue and context related factors as well as individual factors influence the ethical decision-making process. This study used an experimental design to investigate whether the issue-related construct reward consequences, an extension of Jones’ (1991) issue-related factor, magnitude of consequences, is a strong predictor of attitude of business stakeholders towards the ethicality of a morally ambiguous action, in this case, a strategic competitor bluff. The study also investigated the predictive capability of the personal moral philosophy dimensions of relativism and idealism in the presence of differential reward consequences in a morally ambiguous context. The study found clear support for the predictive capability of the issue-related factor, reward consequences, for the moral decision-maker, however, the personal factor of business stakeholders’ a priori personal moral philosophy, measured using Forsyth’s (1980) Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ), was not found to predict their attitudes towards the morally ambiguous action. These findings were consistent across four different business stakeholder roles considered. The findings did indicate, however, that the relativism dimension of the EPQ moderates the relationship between reward consequences and attitude towards the morally ambiguous action. The contributions of the findings to theory bearing on ethical decision-making in the context of morally ambiguous circumstances and stakeholder management are discussed, as are their implications for business management. pagibs2014 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2014-09-18T07:49:15Z 2014-09-18T07:49:15Z 2013-04-30 2012 Thesis Price, G. (2013). The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity (Doctoral dissertation). Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/1818 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42029 en © 2013 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 | Ethics -- Business enterprises Business ethics The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title | The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title_full | The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title_fullStr | The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title_short | The reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| title_sort | reward contingency of ethical attitudes of business stakeholders under conditions of moral ambiguity |
| topic | Ethics -- Business enterprises Business ethics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42029 |