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- Title
The Nature of Managerial Moral Standards.
- Authors
Bird, Frederick; Waters, James A.
- Abstract
Descriptions of how managers think about the moral questions that come up in their work lives are analyzed to draw out the moral assumptions to which they commonly refer. The moral standards thus derived are identified as (1) honesty in communication, (2) fair treatment, (3) special consideration, (4) fair competition,. (5) organizational responsibility, (6) corporate social responsibility, and, (7) respect for law. It is observed that these normative standards assume the cultural form of social conventions but because managers invoke them as largely private intuitions, theft cultural status remains precarious and unclear. This is the second in a research series of three papers.
- Subjects
BUSINESS ethics; EXECUTIVES' attitudes; SOCIAL responsibility of business; ORGANIZATIONAL communication -- Social aspects; ECONOMIC competition; PROFESSIONAL standards; RESPONSIBILITY; HONESTY; FAIRNESS; SOCIAL ethics; SOCIAL norms; LAW &; ethics; MANAGEMENT ethics; ETHICAL decision making; INTERPERSONAL relations &; ethics; ORGANIZATIONAL ethics; ETHICS
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 1987, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00382943