Relevance of Ethics Program Components in Slovakia

Abstract

The aim of the article is to examine to what extent can the different formal components of an ethics program of the organization influence ethical thinking of managers. As the main source of information, an extensive empirical research was carried out on a sample of 810 managers working in the Slovak business environment. The authors studied eleven formal elements of the ethics program and found out that all positively referred to the ethical thinking of managers. Thus organizations, in which formal elements of an ethics program are applied, have a greater ability to influence the ethical thinking of managers than organizations, which avoid the respective ethical mechanisms.

Reasons of Unethical Business Practices in Slovakia: The Perspective of Non-Governmental Organizations' Representatives

“…Even if Slovak NGOs are not primarily focused on the advancement of business ethics, we still consider them as a relevant source of information. This is mainly because the state institutions have not approached the development of business ethics in a systematic way, nor have they adopted an uncompromising position towards non-compliance with the legal or ethical rules in business in 27 years of the existence of the market economy (Remišová et al, 2017;Remišová, 1998;Remišová, 1997). It is worth noting that the situation has begun to shift recently.…”