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| Author: | Jin, K.G. Drozdenko, R. Bassett, R. |
| Title: | Information technology professionals' perceived organizational values and managerial ethics: an empirical study |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2007 : MARCH II, VOL. 71:2, p. 149-159 |
| Index terms: | information technology managers professional ethics |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article presents the results of an analysis of empirical data on ethical attitudes of professionals and managers in relation to organizational core values in the information technology (IT) industry. The relationship between key organizational values as independent variables and the ethical attitudes of IT managers as dependent variables is examined. It is shown that IT professionals from mechanistic organizations were much more likely to report - compared to those from organic organizations - that managers in their corporate environment engage in behaviours regarded as unethical and that successful managers were more unethical relative to unsuccessful managers. There were notable differences between the upper-level managers and the mid-level managers and between the mid-level managers and the IT non-managerial professionals on certain key ethical issues. |
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