RT Article
T1 Mid-level Managers, Organizational Context, and (Un)ethical Encounters
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 97
IS 1
SP 51
OP 69
A1 Dean, Kathy Lund
A1 Beggs, Jeri Mullins
A1 Keane, Timothy P.
A2 Beggs, Jeri Mullins
A2 Keane, Timothy P.
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785640100
AB This article details day-to-day ethics issues facing MBAs who occupy entry-level and mid-level management positions and offers defined examples of the stressors these managers face. The study includes lower-level managers, essentially excluded from extant literature, and focuses on workplace behaviors both undertaken and observed. Results indicate that pressures from internal organization sources, and ambiguity in letter versus spirit of rules, account for over a third of the most frequent unethical situations encountered, and that most managers did not expect to face those issues. Various contextual factors accounted for 32% of the organizational factors that affected decisions. We discuss implications for the workplace, especially the unique ethics challenges for newer managers.
K1 ethical context
K1 entry-level manager
K1 Ethical Climate
K1 MBA ethics
K1 ethical decision-making
K1 Unethical behaviors
K1 Ethics
DO 10.1007/s10551-010-0495-0