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Building Character and Leading Through The "Eyes of Others:" A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Ethical Decision-Making

Nguyen, Thanh Chi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedba1651751249031878

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2022, Doctor of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management.
This research explores the factors which influence and enhance ethical decision-making. Themes of managerial education, a liberal arts training, religiosity, personal value-guided behavior, and mindfulness are explored. This integrative paper reports two mixed method studies following an exploratory sequential design. The first qualitative study consisted of 30 qualitative semi-structure interviews of executives both at the C-level as well as at the middle manager level about their experiences in the corporate setting of ethical dilemmas which they faced. The second quantitative study involved a survey of 316 respondents composing of college students, entrepreneurs, and executives. Both studies provided insights about ethical decision-making at the workplace specifically the positive effects of personal value-guided behavior and religiosity. The relationship between mindfulness and ethical decision-making could not be demonstrated. As business ethics involves its own set of morals and values (e.g., profit-maximization vs ethics-maximization) that are becoming central in a workplaces and corporations, ethical business leaders stand to benefit from exploring multiple ways of neutralizing ethical misconduct including relying on personal values and religiosity.
James Gaskin, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Corinne Coen, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Peter Whitehouse, M.D, Ph.D. (Advisor)
133 p.
Business Administration; Education; Ethics; Philosophy; Religion
management education; liberal arts; leadership; ethics; organizational behavior; sense-making; empathy; ethical decision making; mindfulness; religiosity; personal values

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  • Nguyen, T. C. (2022). Building Character and Leading Through The "Eyes of Others:" A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Ethical Decision-Making [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedba1651751249031878

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nguyen, Thanh. Building Character and Leading Through The "Eyes of Others:" A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Ethical Decision-Making. 2022. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedba1651751249031878.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nguyen, Thanh. "Building Character and Leading Through The "Eyes of Others:" A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Ethical Decision-Making." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedba1651751249031878

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