Ethics In Workplace Research Articles

Workplace spirituality: insights from the Bhagavad Gita

Spiritual theories in India are based on the principle of unanimity, integrating physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of people through dharma (righteousness). Towards that, the Bhagavad Gita highlights the practice of spirituality and ethics in workplace. This study primarily aims to introduce the underlying dimensions of workplace spirituality in Hinduism taking excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita. This is a conceptual paper that adopted a qualitative research to conduct a comprehensive review of literature from the last 20 years that are fundamental in understanding the evolution of workplace spirituality and tracing its roots in Bhagavad Gita. Insights from Bhagavad Gita on each dimensions of workplace spirituality were studied copiously. We have defined workplace spirituality from a new perspective and delineated its dimensions as a persistent positive state of work environment that promotes spiritual awakening and enhances business ethics. As part of a larger study, this paper, investigates how spirituality influences ethical behaviours of people at different stages, maximising the triple bottom line, finally resulting in peace.

Managerial Insight into HR Issues and Competencies Needed for Entry-Level HR Professionals

The present paper aimed at identifying the current HR issues and challenges in India and competencies required for entry-level HR professionals to address them. The data collected from978 managers working in different organizations across India using a survey questionnaire formed the basis for analysis. The data was analyzed quantitatively using mean scores and t-test. The study found that performance management, employee motivation, career development and ethics in workplace are major HR issues of concern for managers. Consistent with the HR issues, developing career development plans emerged as the topmost important competency required for HR professionals. The study further found that there were significant differences in the perception of HR issues and HR competencies based on nature of business, organisational size, and geographical orientation of the organisations, and managers’ nature of work and their length of service.

Is workplace spirituality associated with business ethics?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore the potential association between spirituality and business ethics in a hotel workplace. Design/methodology/approach – A scenario-based quantitative approach was used to collect data from 165 practicing professionals in the hotel industry. Findings – The results show that spirituality, as measured by the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (STS), did not correlate significantly with measures of ethical perception, ethical judgment, ethical intention or perceived moral intensity. There was, however, evidence to suggest that spirituality may be able to contribute incrementally to future research. Research limitations/implications – This study demonstrates that the dynamic associations between spirituality and ethics may produce different outcomes in different industry settings. Practical implications – If hotel companies focus on developing ethical standards, the effects on the business ethics of managers could be considerably greater than relying on the spirituality of managers or the encouragement of expression of spirituality in the workplace. Originality/value – Although the relationship between spirituality and ethics seems to be sensible, the empirical assessments on how managers’ workplace spirituality relate to their business ethics is notably lacking. The present study sought to fill this gap in literature.

Research a Suitable Textbook to Educate High-Level Employees of the Wind Energy Industry in Taiwan

This paper focuses on how to develop the wind power industry professional competence course, the use of the professional competence results of the aforementioned studies, construction of the wind power industry professional competence course module. The importance of the analysis found that students give the highest rating to Chapter 5, work attitude and ethics in the workplace, followed by Chapter 1 green beliefs and regulations, followed by Chapter 4, the future trends of wind power, Chapter 2 Principles of wind power, and Chapter 3 the wind power generation equipment and the establishment. The values of average important of 5 chapters are between 3.66 and 4.07, Less than 4.00, and the average percentage of correct answers (knowledge) of 5 chapters between 28% and 55%, Less than 60%. The IPA analysis found that all on the B quadrant. It is mean that the textbook of wind power is suitable for use and whether experts or students who believe that wind power education is important. Although wind power capacity is insufficient, the students believe that the importance of wind power technology is certainly, that is part of our textbooks to add.

Ethics Management in Public Relations: Practitioner Conceptualizations of Ethical Leadership, Knowledge, Training and Compliance

Little is known and understood about ethics management or the development of formal, systematic, and goal-directed initiatives to improve ethics in the public relations workplace. This study found little ethics training and written guidelines in the public relations workplace. Organizational ethics initiatives are poorly communicated to practitioners and rely mostly on punitive restraints with little reward for ethical behavior. For many practitioners, ethics is not learned through workplace ethics initiatives but rather is mostly informed by external influences including personal values, family upbringing, and professional work experiences.

The status of the Civil Servant and Rules of Ethics in Public Administration efficacy in preserving the integrity of civil servants and preventing corruption: the case of Albania

Since several years already, a public law has been adopted in the Republic of Albania on the civil servants as well as their ethics in workplace. Integrity of civil servants and prevention of corruption are two key elements needed highly required from the latter aiming at serving the public interest at best. The legislation is a key measure to reach such a goal. This papers aims at assessing the efficacy of the two main laws, the status of civil service and rules of ethics for such a pursue and their consistency with best international practices of provisions of civil service legislation related to recruitment, promotion, job security, the independence and capacity of the body/bodies responsible for oversight, including OECD/SIGMA and Council of Europe recommendations. The paper presents several suggestions, according to which either the integrity of civil service recruitment should be better monitored or several legislation amendments are needed.

Safety and Ethics in the Global Workplace: Asymmetries in Culture and Infrastructure

This study described and analysed the circumstances surrounding a fatal car accident involving personnel of a multinational corporation in a developing country. For some companies, road accidents are the leading cause of work-related fatalities in developing countries. This reality highlights the ethical dilemmas encountered in a global workplace. Questions as to how a company addresses safety concerns outside the standard work environment, the ethics of operating in a risky environment and the requirements for international consistency in compensation standards for loss of life were addressed. The authors argued that multinational companies should localize health and safety practices to address the important asymmetries between different regions of the world regarding social, cultural and infrastructural issues. Furthermore, the authors analysed the leadership role that should be played by multinational companies to help and support national governments to reduce traffic fatalities in developing countries. From this perspective, the article represents a contribution for the body of knowledge dealing with the business–society relations. The authors used an action research approach to address these issues, both in response to the particular incident and to contribute to the body of research in this field.

Guided by Tawhid (unity): Ethics in The UAE workplace

This paper presents the findings of a study which explored the issue of Tawhid or unity in relation to the professional ethical climate of organizations in the UAE. The research design facilitated an investigation of business ethics in the UAE workplace through respondent comments about ethical issues typically found within organizations. A questionnaire was administered to 320 employees of 30 corporations in a structured interview format. The results note the various ethical similarities/differences that are the practice within these organizations. The study adds to the literature about Islamic values and ethics in business. The paper concludes with suggested implications for management decision making.

New Dimensions of Corporate Culture: A Construct for Stakeholder Ethics in a Spiritual Workplace

The topics of corporate ethics and workplace spirituality have become increasingly important management issues throughout businesses in the United States during the past several years. This renewed interest in ethics and spirituality can be partially attributed to the many illegal and unethical acts of corporate executives that have cost stakeholders billions of dollars. Our objective is to analyze stakeholder ethical theory and its implications within the culture of a spiritual workplace environment. One original premise is that stakeholder theory focuses on the belief that management decisions must be made in light of their impacts upon all stakeholders that may be impacted by these decisions (Freeman, 1994). These stakeholders include stockholders, employees, customers, managers, suppliers, and local communities (Beauchamp & Bowie, 2004). Within the context of this analysis, the primary focus is on one specific group of stakeholders which is employees. Additionally, employees shall be used in this paper as including managers and all subordinate employees actively involved in employment with the organization. As previously mentioned, in addition to the increased focus on corporate ethics, there is a resurgence of spirituality among the American workforce. This interest in spirituality transcends into every aspect of life including homes, relationships, and businesses. Thus, there is a broader spectrum of factors to be evaluated within the context of stakeholder ethics in a spiritual workplace environment. There has been limited research on the impacts of stakeholder ethical theory and its potential impacts on decision making in a spiritual workplace environment. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the impacts of a construct of stakeholder ethics within a spiritual workplace environment.