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Ethical Orientations (ethical + orientation)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	60%
Humanities and Social Sciences	40%

Selected Abstracts

"Publics" Administration and the Ethics of Particularity

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 5 2003
F. Neil Brady
Ethical orientations that emphasize universal duties, ideals, and values are well known to public administrators. We pay attention to principle, policy, ideals, shared goals, and the provision of a variety of commonly held values, such as clean air and water, mosquito abatement, and public recreation. The word "public" often seems to be a synonym for "universal." However, this article explores particularity in ethics, especially as it applies to the life of the public servant. It identifies three distinct orientations that focus on the concrete,as opposed to the abstract,and it shows how the exceptional cases are not administrative problems; rather they provide a reality check for public administrators who suppose rules, plans, and programs to be their primary orientation toward the management of public concerns. [source]

Ethical orientations of future Greek business people: is anomia responsible for deviant ethical attitudes?

BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 2 2007
Eleonora Karassavidou
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Where Mourning Takes Them: Migrants, Borders, and an Alternative Reality

ETHOS, Issue 2 2010
David P. Sandell
Mourning, family members and acquaintances indicate, is an indefinite process revealed through figurative representations: metaphor and metonym. Mourning as metaphor associates an actual death with instances of loss that occur in other semantic domains,the household, motherhood, and gender constructions. As a metonym, mourning stands for these instances, which, collectively, account for a substratum of social life that is not amenable to logical criticism but persists in the formation of perception and judgment. This dialectic highlights epistemological and ontological borders that provide insight into people's dispositions within the conditions of poverty and wage labor. The borders also provide a vantage point for novel identification, ethical orientation, and behavior that come to shape an alternative reality. [mourning, migration, identity, poetics, Mexico] [source]

Ethical evaluations and behavioural intentions of early career accountants: the impact of mentors, peers and individual attributes

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 3 2009
Lisa McManus
I20; M40; M41 Abstract This study examined how mentoring support, peer influence and individual attributes of early career accountants (ECA) influence their ethical evaluations and behavioural intentions. Respondents indicate that their evaluation of the seriousness of the ethical conflict is affected by the perceived standard of ethical conduct of their peers, their personal ethical orientation, the extent of ethics education at university, and gender. ECAs' evaluation of a senior colleague's unethical behaviour is affected by mentoring support and the perceived standard of ethical conduct of peers. In terms of ECAs' willingness to contact accounting professional bodies for ethical advice, the size of the accounting firm and the extent of their ethics education at university are significant factors. Furthermore, the likelihood of respondents choosing a more ethical decision is correlated with his or her individual ethical orientation and the extent of ethics education at university. [source]

Mars and Venus at Twilight: A Critical Investigation of Moralism, Age Effects, and Sex Differences

POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2003
Daniel Aldrich
Analysts have long sought to understand whether women and men have different ethical orientations. Some researchers have argued that women and men consistently make fundamentally different ethical judgments, especially of corruption; others have found no such disparities. This study considered whether an individual's age may also play a role in determining his or her moral judgment. A statistical investigation of interactive effects between gender and age in a nationally representative data set from Japan shows that this interaction functions better as a predictor of moralism than do education or gender alone. Older individuals of both sexes were found to have similar strict moral perceptions; as women and men age, their ethical judgments converge. [source]