Can Business Ethics be Trained? A Study of the Ethical Decision-making Process in Business Students

By Barbara A. Ritter. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Bad apples in bad (business) barrels (2008, background): “The extent to which professors can change students’ values and ethics remains to be seen (e.g. Evans et al., 2006; Ritter, 2006; Weber, 1990) and deserves critical attention in future research.”
Designing Management Curriculum for Workplace Readiness: Developing Students’ Soft Skills (2018, background): “Indeed, an integrated approach through multiple levels of the curriculum is best to truly prepare students with needed skills and abilities (Ritter, 2006).”
Predictor of Business Students’ Attitudes Toward Sustainable Business Practices (2010, background): “Ritter (2006) reported that ethics training only had an effect on female but not on male students.”
Intelligence Vs. Wisdom: The Love of Money, Machiavellianism, and Unethical Behavior across College Major and Gender (2008, background): “After ethics training, female students change and improve ethical behavior, but male students do not (Ritter, 2006).”
The Effect of Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Education on Intention Formation in Students (2018, background): “Prior research suggests that education efforts can indeed impact the moral values and intent of business students (Kavathatzopoulos, 1993; Luthar and Karri, 2005; Ritter, 2006; Yoo and Donthu, 2002).”
Separating Will from Grace: An experiment on conformity and awareness in cheating (2013, background): “Another explanation is that women are less prone to unethical behavior because it is more difficult for them to deal with the guilt felt subsequent to unethical behavior (Ritter, 2006; Vermier and Van Kenhove, 2008).”
Encouraging employees to report unethical conduct internally: It takes a village (2013, background): “Ethics training programs are popular in organizations and, if consistent with other aspects of the organizational culture, can send the message to employees that ethical behavior is valued (Ritter, 2006; Treviño & Nelson, 2007; Weber, 2007).”
Gender Differences in Double Standards (2008, background): “We expect that women, who are more likely than men to evaluate questionable acts as unethical (e.g. Beu et al., 2003; Ritter, 2006), are less likely to use double standards.”
The Impact of Ethics Education on Reporting Behavior (2009, background): “…academic dishonesty than females, Peterson et al. (2001) found that younger female business professionals held higher levels of ethical beliefs, and Ritter (2006) found that female students showed significantly improved levels of moral awareness and decision-making processes after an ethics…”