An Exploratory Study of Ethical Values in Nonprofit Fundraising: Survey of Fundraising Executives

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-537
Author(s):  
Beverly T. Venable ◽  
Judy Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Ethical Position ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Nonprofit Fundraising

An initial study used the Ethical Position Quotient in an extension of this measure from for-profit organizations to nonprofit organizations. Responses from professional fundraising executives for nonprofit organizations were generally more idealistic than relativistic regarding ethical decision-making. Additionally, in a comparison of the executives' answers to those of M.B.A. students, the students were significantly more relativistic and less idealistic than the nonprofit executives. On Forsyth's Taxonomy of Ethical Perspectives, approximately 20% of the students were absolutists versus 66% of the fundraising executives. Conversely, 70% of the M.B.A. students were situationists compared to only a third of the executives. This disparity in responses between these groups provides a rich and interesting platform for research.

scholarly journals Do Business Ethics and Ethical Decision Making Still Matter: Perspective of Different Generational Cohorts

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Klopotan ◽  
Ana Aleksić ◽  
Nikolina Vinković
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Generation Z

AbstractBackground: Research in business ethics shows that individual differences can influence one’s ethical behaviour. In addition, variability in attitudes towards ethical issues among different generations is emphasized. Still, results are inconclusive and call for an additional examination of possible generational differences with regard to ethics and ethical values.Objectives: Our objective is to test if the perception of the importance of business ethics, attitudes towards ethical issues and aspects influencing ethical behaviour, differ among the four generations currently present in the workforce.Methods/Approach: Theoretical implications are empirically tested on a sample of 107 individuals, members of Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and Generation Z.Results: In general, the results indicate that there are little or no generational differences related to the analysed aspects of business ethics. The significant difference is present only in the importance given to factors that influence ethical decision-making: (i) formal rules and procedures, (ii) performance management system and (iii) job pressures, between the members of Generation Z and older generations.Conclusions: In spite of employee diversity, ethics continues to present an important aspect of the business environment. Thus, organizations need to be oriented towards creating ethical leaders and a positive ethical climate that ensures that ethical values and behaviours are present throughout the organization.

scholarly journals Ethical Decision Making of Future Mexican Managers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Maria A. Leach-López ◽  
Claire A. Stammerjohan ◽  
William W. Stammerjohan ◽  
Megan M. Leach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Ethics Training ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Mexican Students ◽  
Doing Business

A study to measure ethical decision making of Mexican business students compared to their US counterparts. Results suggest that Mexican students’ ethical decision-making frameworks differ from those documented by Keller et al. (2007) in their study of US students. Mexican students were not found to be highly religious, but subscribed more to utilitarian, deontological and hermeneutical frameworks for their ethical values. It is suggested that multinational firms doing business in Mexico might want to schedule ethics training of managers and to have a set of standards that employees can follow.

scholarly journals Ethical Decision Making: A Role-Play Exercise

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Ankur Nandedkar ◽  
David J. DiRusso
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Class Session ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
A Company

This paper highlights an original role-play exercise designed to teach students about the principles of ethical decision making. The exercise intends to create hypothetical ethical dilemmas that managers may encounter in their jobs, and challenges the students to apply the principles of ethical decision making to reach a solution in each case. This exercise is ideal for use by instructors of introductory courses such as principles of management, introduction to business or graduate level business administration concepts, or any class session with a primary focus on ethical decision making. We present a description of the exercise and suggestions on how to debrief it. The exercise also provides students with an opportunity to ponder their ethical values and complexities associated with the manager’s position in a company.

scholarly journals Ethical perspectives on the environmental impact of property development

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sentle Mokori ◽  
Chris E. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Pluralism ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Ethical Property ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

Three perspectives that can be found in ethical decision-making are explored to suggest guidelines for ethical property development: the instrumental, the intrinsic and the pluralist perspective. Given the limitations of the instrumental and the intrinsic perspectives, it is suggested that the appropriate perspective to be adopted by ethical property developers is that of pragmatism, as being a system of moral pluralism. This perspective can be utilised as a flexible toolbox which unites both traditional ethical values and the diversity of environmental ethics, as well as allowing new values to emerge without adhering to relativism.

The psychologist’s role in ethical decision making: Adolescent bariatric surgery.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin L. Price ◽  
Margaret E. Lee ◽  
Gia A. Washington ◽  
Mary L. Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
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