Codes of Ethics as Signals for Ethical Behavior

By J. S. Adams, Armen Tashchian, Ted H. Shore. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Ethical Context, Organizational Commitment, and Person-Organization Fit (2002, background): “Adams et al. (2001) concluded that ethics codes enhanced employees’ beliefs about corporate moral conduct.”
The Methods Used to Implement an Ethical Code of Conduct and Employee Attitudes (2004, background): “In recent years, in Europe, Australia and the USA, there has been a large increase in the number of corporations choosing to adopt an ethical code of conduct (Adams et al., 2001; Kaye, 1992; Post et al., 2002; Reynolds, 2000; Somers, 2001).”
The Impact of Ethical Ideologies, Moral Intensity, and Social Context on Sales-Based Ethical Reasoning (2011, background): “Such an understanding likely stems from an appreciation of the ethical culture/climate that encourages employees to appropriately react to ethical dilemmas based on ethical values, codes, the actions of managers/ leaders, and behavioral norms (Adams et al., 2001; Barnett and Vaicys, 2000; Hunt et al”
The Effectiveness of Business Codes: A Critical Examination of Existing Studies and the Development of an Integrated Research Model (2007, unknown): “Adams et al. (2001) did some more sophisticated research.”
A Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Canada (2012, background): “The literature (Adams et al. 2001; Kaptein 2004) points to the proliferation of codes of conduct as an indicator of adopting ethical behaviour, particularly when firms engage in off shoring and outsourcing in developing countries (van Tulder et al. 2009).”
Ethics Code Awareness, Perceived Ethical Values, and Organizational Commitment (2003, unknown): “Ideally, an ethics code demonstrates the company’s interest in business ethics and communicates core beliefs to employees (Adams, Tashchian, and Shore 2001; Sims 1991; Wotruba, Chonko, and Loe 2001).”
Corporate Ethical Values, Group Creativity, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention: The Impact of Work Context on Work Response (2011, background): “The results suggest that sales and marketing employees have a vested interest in partnering with other professionals to institutionalize an ethical context (Adams et al., 2001; White and Lam, 2000), and ‘‘representatives for all job classifications or levels of the organizational hierarchy should ta”
Ethics Training and Businesspersons’ Perceptions of Organizational Ethics (2004, background): “While perceptions of organizational ethics are commonly built by drafting an ethics code (Adams et al., 2001; Valentine and Barnett, 2002), the findings of this study suggest that ethics codes are not the only means of enhancing TABLE IV Results of MANCOVA and ANCOVA analyses”
Ethical work climate, employee commitment and proactive customer service performance: Test of the mediating effects of organizational politics (2017, background): “Focusing on the retail industry, Adams et al. (2001) concluded that employees at all levels display more positive behavior in organizations with an ethical work climate than in organizations without one.”
The Effects of Ethical Codes on Ethical Perceptions of Actions Toward Stakeholders (2010, methodology): “Adams et al. (2001), after having interviewed 766 company employees, the majority of which (465) were employed in companies having a code of ethics, conclude that the attitudes of employees were positively influenced by the process of developing a code.”