Employee Ethical Attitudes: Contextual Differences and Impact on Perceived Quality of Leadership Relationships

Title
Employee Ethical Attitudes: Contextual Differences and Impact on Perceived Quality of Leadership Relationships
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Jepsen, Denise
Hine, Donald W
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-7026
Email: dhine@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dhine
Noblet, Andrew
Cooksey, Ray W
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0297-7256
Email: rcooksey@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rcooksey
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
International Employment Relations Association
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:5026
Abstract
This study examines the differences in how employees and their supervisors view ethical dilemmas. A 20 item ethical attitudes scale of vignettes in six categories of ethical dilemmas – business, discrimination, environment, marketing, personal finances and sexuality was developed and distributed to 152 male and female employees. To determine the way employees see themselves as ethically similar to their supervisors, respondents' own attitudes were compared with their perceptions of their supervisors' attitudes to the same ethical dilemmas. A small but significant contribution to the quality of the leadership relationship can be accounted for by the ethical similarity of an employee and their supervisor. Results also demonstrated that employees have a "more strict" moral or ethical attitude towards non-organisational than organisational ethical dilemmas.
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Citation
International Employment Relations Review, 15(1), p. 39-52
ISSN
1324-1125
Start page
39
End page
52

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