Ethical Dilemmas in Performance Measurement

In this article we discuss the ethical dilemmas facing performance evaluators and the "evaluatees" whose performances are measured in a business context. The concepts of role morality and common morality are used to develop a framework of behaviors that are normally seen as the moral respo...

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Authors: Kerssens-van Drongelen, Inge C. (Author) ; Fisscher, Olaf A.M. (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2003
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2003, 卷: 45, 发布: 1, Pages: 51-63
Further subjects:B common-sense morality
B Business Ethics
B role morality
B Moral Responsibility
B Performance measurement
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总结:In this article we discuss the ethical dilemmas facing performance evaluators and the "evaluatees" whose performances are measured in a business context. The concepts of role morality and common morality are used to develop a framework of behaviors that are normally seen as the moral responsibilities of these actors. This framework is used to analyze, based on four empirical situations, why the implementation of a performance measurement system has not been as effective as expected. It was concluded that, in these four cases, unethical behavior (i.e. deviations from the ethical behaviors identified in the framework) provided, at least to some extent, an explanation for the lower than expected effectiveness of the performance measurement procedures. At the end of the paper we present an agenda for further research through which the framework could be further developed and systematically applied to a broader set of cases.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1024120428490