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Ferrell, John Fraedrich, and Linda Ferrell,
Business Ethics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2008).
6. The following discussion, except as noted,
is based on Manuel Velasquez, Business
Ethics, pp. 9 12.
7. For further discussion of ethics and morality,
see Tom Beauchamp and Norman
Bowie, Ethical Theory and Business (Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001),
pp. 1 19.
8. Richard Osborne, A Matter of Ethics,
Industry Week, September 4, 2000,
pp. 41 42.
9. Gary Weaver and Linda Trevino, The
Role of Human Resources in Ethics/
Compliance Management: A Fairness
Perspective, Human Resource Management
Review 11 (2001): 115.
10. Daniel Skarlicki and Robert Folger,
Fairness and Human Resources Management,
Human Resource Management
Review 13, no. 1 (2003), p. 1.
11. Gary Weaver and Linda Trevino, The
Role of Human Resources in Ethics/
Compliance Management: A Fairness
Perspective, Human Resource Management
Review 11 (2001), pp. 113 134.
12. Weaver and Trevino, The Role of Human
Resources in Ethics/Compliance Management,
p. 115.
13. Stephanie Clifford, Wal-Mart Is Being
Pressed to Disclose How Global Suppliers
Treat Workers, The New York Times,
May 31, 2011, p. B3.
14. Ibid.
15. See http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/
bill_of_rights.html, accessed May 31, 2011.
16. http://focus.illinoisstate.edu/modules/
policy/publicpolicy.shtml, accessed
September 14, 2011.
17. Jennifer Kish-Gephart, David Harrison,
and Linda Trevino, Bad Apples, Bad
Cases, and Bad Barrels: Meta-Analytic
Evidence About Sources of Unethical
Decisions That Work, Journal of Applied
Psychology 95, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1 31.
18. This section based on Ibid., p. 21
19. Sara Morris et al., A Test of Environmental,
Situational, and Personal Influences
on the Ethical Intentions of CEOs,
Business and Society (August 1995),
pp. 119 47. See also Dennis Moberg,
Ethics Blind Spots in Organizations:
How Systematic Errors in Person s
Perception Undermine Moral Agency,
Organization Studies 27, no. 3 (2006),
pp. 413 428; and Scott Reynolds et al.,
Automatic Ethics: The Effects of Implicit
Assumptions and Contextual Cues on
Moral Behavior, Journal of Applied
Psychology 95, no. 4 (2010), pp. 752 760.
20. Former CEO Joins WorldComs Indicted,
Miami Herald, March 3, 2004, p. 4C.
21. O. C. Ferrell and John Fraedrich, Business
Ethics, 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1997), p. 28; adapted from
Rebecca Goodell, Ethics in American
Business: Policies, Programs, and Perceptions
(Washington, D.C.: Ethics Resource
Center, 1994), p. 54; For other insights
into unethical behavior s causes see, for
example, F. Gino, et. al., Nameless *
Harmless + Blameless: When Seemingly
Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of
(Un)ethical Behavior, Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes
111, no. 2 (March 2010), p. 93 101, and
J. Camps, et. al., Learning Atmosphere
and Ethical Behavior, Does It Make
Sense? Journal of Business Ethics 94, no. 1
(June 2010), pp. 129 147.
22. Elizabeth Umphress, John Bingham, and
Marie Mitchell, Unethical Behavior
in the Name of the Company: The
Moderating Effect of Organizational
Identification and Positive Reciprocity
Believes on Unethical Pro-Organizational
Behavior, Journal of Applied
Psychology 95, no. 4 (2010), pp. 769 770.
23. Ethics Policies Are Big with Employers,
but Workers See Small Impact on the
Workplace, BNA Bulletin to Management,
June 29, 2000, p. 201.
24. Jennifer Schramm, Perceptions on Ethics,
HR Magazine, November 2004, p. 176.
25. From Guy Brumback, Managing Above
the Bottom Line of Ethics, Supervisory
Management, December 1993, p. 12. See
also, E. Umphress et al., The Influence
of Distributive Justice on Lying for and
Stealing from a Supervisor, Journal
of Business Ethics 86, no. 4 (June 2009),
pp. 507 518; and S. Chen, The Role of
Ethical Leadership Versus Institutional
Constraints: A Simulation Study of Financial
Misreporting by CEOs, Journal of
Business Ethics 93 part supplement 1
(June 2010), p. 33 52.
26. Quoted in Tom Beauchamp and Norman
Bowie, Ethical Theory and Business
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2001), p. 109.
27. James Kunen, Enron Division (and Values)
Thing, New York Times, January 19, 2002,
p. A19. For another example, see Heather
Tesoriero and Avery Johnson, Suit Details
How J&J Pushed Sales of Procrit, The Wall
Street Journal (Eastern Edition), April 10,
2007, p. B1(1).
28. Dayton Fandray, The Ethical Company,
Workforce 79, no. 12 (December 2000):
74 77.
29. Richard Beatty et al., HR s Role in
Corporate Governance: Present and
Prospective, Human Resource Management
42, no. 3 (Fall 2003), p. 268.
30. Dale Buss, Corporate Compasses, HR
Magazine (June 2004): 127 132.
31. Eric Krell, How to Conduct an Ethics
Audit, HR Magazine, April 2010, pp. 48 51.
32. Sometimes the most straightforward way
of changing a company s culture is to
move fast to change its top management.
For example, some observers believe that
the General Motors board fired CEO Fritz
Henderson in part because he hadn t
moved fast enough to telegraph the need
for change in the company by changing
the company s top management. Jeremy
Smerd, A Stalled Culture Change?
Workforce Management, December 14,
2009, pp. 1, 3.
33. This list based on Linda K. Trevino, Gary R.
Weaver, and Scott J. Reynolds, Behavioral
Ethics in Organizations: A Review,
Journal of Management 32, no. 6 (2006),
pp. 951 990.
34. R. Bergman, Identity as Motivation:
Toward a Theory of the Moral Self. In
D. K. Lapsley & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Moral
Development, Self and Identity (Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), pp. 21 46.
35. M. E. Schweitzer, L. Ordonez, and
B. Douma, Goal Setting as a Motivator of
Unethical Behavior, Academy of Management
Journal 47, no. 3 (2004), pp. 422 432.
36. N. M. Ashkanasy, C. A. Windsor, and
L. K. Trevino, Bad Apples in Bad Barrels
Revisited: Cognitive Moral Development,
Just World Beliefs, Rewards, and Ethical
Decision Making. Business Ethics Quarterly
16 (2006), pp. 449 474.
37. J. Krohe Jr., The Big Business of Business
Ethics, Across the Board 34 (May 1997),
pp. 23 29; Deborah Wells and Marshall
Schminke, Ethical Development and
Human Resources Training: An Integrative
Framework, Human Resource Management
Review 11 (2001), pp. 135 158.
38. Ethical Issues in the Management
of Human Resources, Human Resource
Management Review 11 (2001), p. 6; see
also Joel Lefkowitz, The Constancy
of Ethics Amidst the Changing World of
Work, Human Resource Management
Review 16 (2006), pp. 245 268.
39. William Byham, Can You Interview for
Integrity? Across-the-Board 41,no.2 (March/
April 2004), pp. 34 38. For a description of
how the United States Military Academy
uses its student admission and socialization
processes to promote character development,
see Evan Offstein and Ronald
Dufresne, Building Strong Ethics and
Promoting Positive Character Development:
The Influence of HRM at the United
States Military Academy at West Point,
Human Resource Management 46, no. 1
(Spring 2007), pp. 95 114.
40. Weaver and Trevino, The Role of Human
Resources, p. 123. See also Linda Andrews,
The Nexus of Ethics, HR Magazine,
August 2005, pp. 53 58.
41. Russell Cropanzano and Thomas Wright,
Procedural Justice and Organizational
Staffing: A Tale of Two Paradigms, Human
Resource Management Review 13, no. 1
(2003), pp. 7 40.
42. Ethical Issues in the Management
of Human Resources, Human Resource
Management Review 11 (2001), p. 6.
43. Weaver and Trevino, The Role of Human
Resources, p. 123.