Relevance of Ethics Program Components in Slovakia

Anna Remišová,Zuzana Kirchmayer,Anna Lašáková

doi:10.18775/jibrm.1849-8558.2015.23.3004

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The aim of the article is to examine to what extent can the different formal components of an ethics program of the organization influence ethical thinking of managers. As the main source of information, an extensive empirical research was carried out on a sample of 810 managers working in the Slovak business environment. The authors studied eleven formal elements of the ethics program and found out that all positively referred to the ethical thinking of managers. Thus organizations, in which formal elements of an ethics program are applied, have a greater ability to influence the ethical thinking of managers than organizations, which avoid the respective ethical mechanisms.

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Long-term and successful development of business ethics in organizations is linked to the functioning of a sound ethics program
In the period when business ethics began to develop in Slovakia, the notion of organizational ethics program was quite unknown in both the theory and praxis
- We have assumed that there our respondents would acknowledge positive impact of educational activities on ethical thinking of managers

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Long-term and successful development of business ethics in organizations is linked to the functioning of a sound ethics program. In the period when business ethics began to develop in Slovakia, the notion of organizational ethics program was quite unknown in both the theory and praxis. In Slovak conditions, the business ethics began to develop first as an academic discipline in the 90s of the last century. Its subsequent application in praxis is associated with the transition of the economics based on state ownership and central planning to a market economy with the dominance of private property. The issues of ethical regulation of the economics were at a periphery of attention for both the new businesses as well as for the state authorities. It was generally assumed that the legislative framework is a sufficient normative regulator for business in a market economy (Remišová, 1997)

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