The Link Between Management Behavior and Ethical Philosophy in the Wake of the Enron Convictions

Premeaux, Shane R.

doi:10.1007/s10551-008-9745-9

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“…Such omission is surprising as fairness is a fundamental value and virtue within an organization (Rawls 1971) and employees' perceived fairness toward their employing organization is strongly related to their ethical assumptions regarding how human beings should be treated in the workplace (Loi et al 2012). Furthermore, the well-known whistleblowing case of Enron reveals that when managers behave unethically, employees would not only query managers' ethnicity but also question whether the organization's policies and procedures are proper or not (Premeaux 2009). Thus, it is both theoretically and practically important to examine why and how ethical leadership behavior exerts its effect on employees' fairness perceptions toward their organization.…”

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Ethical Leadership Behavior and Employee Justice Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Trust in Organization

2014

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Using data collected at two phases, this study examines why and how ethical leadership behavior influences employees' evaluations of organization-focused justice, i.e., procedural justice and distributive justice. By proposing ethical leaders as moral agents of the organization, we build up the linkage between ethical leadership behavior and the above two types of organization-focused justice. We further suggest trust in organization as a key mediating mechanism in the linkage. Our findings indicate that ethical leadership behavior engenders employees' trust in their employing organization, which in turn promotes their justice perceptions toward the organization. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed, and some directions for future research are suggested.

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Ethical Leadership Behavior and Employee Justice Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Trust in Organization

2014

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“…The researchers' evaluation was based on French and Raven's 1960s treatise on bases of power. The results of business research studies in ethics show a tendency to focus on the right side of the distribution of moral choice, feeling the pull of self-interest and teleologism (Premeaux, 2009;Wines, 2008).This supposition may be reflected in the lower P-scores of business students. In this new millennium, business schools are the largest discipline in higher education.…”

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The quest for logia psyche in business leadership: An empirical study of cognitive moral development in construction industry dyads

Reischl

Cavico

Mujtaba

et al. 2010

J of Leadership Studies

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This research study examines the ageless human debate of the body versus the soul, testing leadership in the industry of building constructors. Based on Kohlbergian theory of cognitive moral development, the multidisciplinary literature review advances the proposition that moral development proceeds in waves of egoism, leading to altruism that is couched in power-"the apple of the eye."The results from respondents of the Iowa Architects Institute of America (n ϭ 93) indicated that, despite their higher education and aesthetic interests, the sample of architects ranked low on moral maturity level compared to the average of the Defining Issues Test data bank as a whole. Principled scores were 36.4 for architects and 39.1 for the data bank. This research also compared the moral maturity of intra-industry groups in marketing dyads consisting of architects, contractors, and suppliers using analysis of variance. Again, it was expected that architects with higher education and aesthetic interests would rank highest. Findings of post hoc comparisons revealed no significant difference in moral maturity level between architects and contractors engrossed in the same power paradigm (p ϭ 1.00), yet a significant difference existed between architects and suppliers (p ϭ 0.024).This implication is consistent with the teleological ethical pattern that is prevalent in research studies of salespeople.

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“…Since the Enron scandal, especially after the successful prosecution of Enron executives in 2003, the link between ethical philosophy and management behaviour has been ever converging. Premeaux (2009) reports that ethical behaviour has been more in line with ethical rhetoric ever since, as the high-profile prosecutions, convictions, and jail sentences may have impressed on managers that was the time to incorporate ethics into business decisions. Noteworthy, a sound ethical philosophy with real concern for human dignity and well-being (of its followers) nourished by a leader's moral character and coherent behaviour could be very effective for fostering good behaviour within the organization (Bormann 2017).…”

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Organizational Factors in the Individual Ethical Behaviour. The Notion of the “Organizational Moral Structure”

Roszkowska

Mêlé

2020

Humanist Manag J

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Various organizational factors reported in the hitherto literature affect individual (mis)behaviour within a company. In this paper, we conduct a literature review thereof, and propose a notion of the "Organizational Moral Structure" defined as a comprehensive framework of interrelated organizational factors that condition, incite or influence good or bad moral behaviour of individuals within the organization. Drawing from a wide bibliographical review and our own reflection on recent business scandals, we identify seven constituents of the "Organizational Moral Structure": 1) leader's values and character, 2) vision and exercise of power, 3) corporate control systems, 4) internal network of influence, 5) organizational culture, 6) internal and competitive pressures, and 7) external influences. The "Organizational Moral Structure" is proposed as a reflective framework for humanistic management and as an invitation to further research in this field. We provide recommendations on how a manager oriented towards humanistic management can use the OMS to secure and promote well-being and dignity of company's employees.

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The Link Between Management Behavior and Ethical Philosophy in the Wake of the Enron Convictions

Abstract: ethics, scandals, philosophy, Enron,

Cited by 32 publications

References 13 publications

Ethical Leadership Behavior and Employee Justice Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Trust in Organization

Ethical Leadership Behavior and Employee Justice Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Trust in Organization

The quest for logia psyche in business leadership: An empirical study of cognitive moral development in construction industry dyads

Organizational Factors in the Individual Ethical Behaviour. The Notion of the “Organizational Moral Structure”

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