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- Title
The Relationship Between Pharmacists' Tenure in the Community Setting and Moral Reasoning.
- Authors
Latif, David A.
- Abstract
Objective: To explore the relationship between pharmacists' tenure in the community setting and their moral reasoning abilities. Design: Systematic random sample design. Setting: A large southeastern city in the United States. Participants: 450 independent and chain community pharmacists identified from the state board of pharmacy list of licenced community pharmacists. Interventions: A mailed questionnaire that included a well-known moral reasoning instrument and collected demographic information. Main Outcome Measures: Moral Reasoning abilities and tenure of community pharmacists. Results: As a group, community pharmacists with greater years of tenure in community practice scored significantly lower on moral reasoning than those pharmacists with fewer years of tenure (p = 0.016). Conclusion: Four plausible explanations for the results are given including: a) a selection of lower ethical reasoners and/or an exodus of higher ethical reasoners from the community setting; b) a retrogression in the moral reasoning skills as community pharmacists obtain tenure in this setting; c) differences between the low and high moral reasoning groups may be due to a cohort effect; and d) the obtained practitioner sample may not have been representative of the population of community pharmacists.
- Subjects
PHARMACISTS; REASONING; INDUSTRIAL surveys; DEMOGRAPHY -- Social aspects; EMPLOYMENT tenure; PROFESSIONAL ethics; ORGANIZATIONAL ethics; CODES of ethics; CONFLICT of interests; SOCIAL ethics; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2001, Vol 31, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1010771103427