Abstract
The crisis caused by COVID-19 has increased interest to the subject of integrity in organizations. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the opinions on the value of honesty, broken down by the group of supervisors and subordinates during the crisis caused by COVID-19. The analysis was carried out in Poland among undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in fields representing disciplines other than management. The paper used a survey method; 102 respondents took part in the survey. 9.52% of men and 5.00% of women in the group of subordinates did not have opinions on this subject. In the group of supervisors, the situation was completely opposite: 6.25% of women and 4.76% of men showed such a result. Significant discrepancies were noticed in the assessment of the importance of honesty depending on the education field of the respondents. The difference between the highest assessments of the importance of this value was 33.70 percentage points in the supervisors’ group, and 38.64 percentage points in the subordinates group. Drawing attention to this problem, which affects all participants of an organization to a different extent, may help to shape the ethical attitudes of future managers and, in consequence, manage their organizations better.
Highlights
The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the opinions on the value of honesty, broken down by the group of supervisors and subordinates during the crisis caused by COVID-19
The purpose of the study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the opinion on the value of honesty, broken down by the group of supervisors and subordinates during the crisis caused by COVID-19
There is no significant difference in the assessment of the importance of honesty in the groups of supervisors and subordinates, respectively, as the obtained results differ relatively insignificantly (84.32% for group A and 83.33% for group B)
Summary
According to Gryżenia biguous, and prone to overinterpretation It should (2010), honesty excludes the possibility of disrebe noted, that there are honesty question- garding the principles of social life (...) princinaires in the literature that require an unequivocal ples constitute the basis of educational influence, assessment of behavior. The first part of the study was the survey of The polarization in the group of women was more respondents’ opinions on the prioritization of the visible than in the group of men, as they chose the importance of values, which is honesty. Respondents were asked to rate the impor- B the value of honesty is completely unimportant, tance of behavior for both groups in the context of and in the group of women, 1.25% of the respondbuilding a culture of integrity in the organization.
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