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Marvin E. Goldberg,
Understanding Gerald J. Gorn,
Materialism Among Laura A. Peracchio,
Khushboo K1 2003 Youth Gary Bamossy
 Materialism and
Attitudes Toward Andrew N.
Money: An Christopher, Pam
Exploratory Marek, Stephen M.
Khushboo K2 2004 Investigation Carroll
 Beliefs and Values
as possible
correlates of Ethical
Awareness in
Business
Khushboo K3 1995 Michael J. Olivette

Trading Ethics for Nora M. Martin,

Khushboo K4 2008 Possessions Diane Prince
 A New Appraisal of
the Belk Materialism
Khushboo K5 1995 Scale Kathleen S. Micken

Philip M. Podsakoff,
Scott B. MacKenzie,
Common Method Jeong-Yeon Lee,
Biases in Behavioral Nathan P.
Khushboo K6 2003 Research Podsakoff
 Three scales to
measure constructs
related to
Materialism:
Reliability, Validity,
and Relationships to
measures of
Happiness, Beliefs
and Values as
possible correlates
of Ethical
Awareness in
Khushboo K7 1984 Business Russell W. Belk
 Ethical Values and Jennifer L. Nevins,
Long-Term William O. Bearden,
Khushboo K8 2006 Orientation Bruce Money
 Are Studies of Dark
Side Variables
Confounded by
Socially Desirable
Responding? The
Case of
Khushboo K9 1996 Materialism David Glen Mick
 An Examination of
the Relationship
between Ethical Craig V. VanSandt,
Work Climate and Jon M. Shepard,
Khushboo K10 2006 Moral Awareness Stephen M. Zappe
 Learning
Atmosphere and
Ethical
Behavior, Does It Joaquı´n Camps
2009 Make Sense? Antonio Majocchi

Materialistic Values
and Well-being
Among Business
Students: Vansteenkiste,
Further Evidence Maarten; Duriez,
For Their Bart; Simons, Joke;
Himanshu 2 2006 Detrimental Effect Soenens, Bart
 On Understanding
Ethical Behavior
and Decision David De Cremer,
Making: David M. Mayer,
A Behavioral Ethics and Marshall
3 2010 Approach Schminke
 Intelligence Vs.
Wisdom: The Love
of Money,
Machiavellianism,
and Unethical
Behavior across Thomas Li-Ping
College Major and Tang
Himanshu 4 Gender Yuh-Jia Chen
 Is the Love of
Money Universal
Amongst Quah Chun Hoo,
Aspiring Malaysian Wong Si-Maan and
Himanshu 5 2008 Managers Joshua Ignatius
 The relationship
between
accounting students‘
love
of money and their Rafik Z. Elias,Magdy
Himanshu 6 2009 ethical perception Farag
 Ethical positioning
and political
marketing:
the ethical
awareness and Oliver M.
concerns of UK Freestone,Peter J.
Himanshu 7 2007 voters McGoldrick
 The Effect of Moral Joan M. McMahon
Intensity on Ethical and Robert J.
Gaurav GR5 2007 Judgment Harvey
 An investigation of
moral reasoning as
a predictor of ethical
awareness, ethical
intention and ethical
Gaurav GR4 2002 orientation Bancroft, Patricia C.
 The Ethical Issues
Rating Scale: An
Instrument for
Measuring Ethical
Orientation of Larry G. Daniel
College Students Florence E. Elliott-
toward Various Howard
Gaurav GR3 1997 Business Practices Debbie D. DuFrene

A Cross-Cultural
Comparison of
Ethical
Orientations and Christopher J.
Willingness to Robertson
Sacrifice Bradley J. Olson
Ethical Standards: K. Matthew Gilley
Himanshu 2007 China Versus Peru Yongjian Bao
 Have Ethical
Attitudes Changed?
An Intertemporal
Comparison
of the Ethical
Perceptions of Stephen J.
College Students in Conroy,Tisha L. N.
Himanshu 2004 1985 and 2001 Emerson

The Ethical
Attitudes of
Accounting
Himanshu 2006 Students Fannie L. Malone
 THE IMPACT OF
ETHICAL VALUES
AND
PERCEPTIONS OF
ETHICAL
CONDUCT
ON
COUNTERPRODU
CTIVE BEHAVIOR Satish P.
OF FUTURE Deshpande and
Himanshu 2010 MANAGER Jacob Josep

Ethical Orientation
and Awareness of Simon Hudson and
Himanshu 2005 Tourism Students Graham Miller
 Materialism and
Consumer Ethics: James A. Muncy
An Exploratory and Jacqueline K.
Gaurav GR1 1998 Study Eastman
 THE ROLE OF
INTUITION IN
ETHICAL
Gaurav GR2 2009 DECISION MAKING JAMES R. GUZAK
 Can money and Strategic Direction,
Kunal Malik1 2003 ethics mix? Vol. 19 Iss: 6
 The relationship
between ethics, Christie R. Morgan,
common sense, and Palaniappan
Kunal Malik2 2009 rationality Thiagarajan

Ethics in an
unethical
environment or
absence
Kunal Malik3 2007 of ethics? Yuliya V. Ivanova
 Developing effective
ethics for effective
Kunal Malik4 2010 behavior Steven E. Wallis
 Money, money,
money – how do
attitudes toward
money impact vanity Srinivas Durvasula,
Kunal Malik5 2010 and materialism? Steven Lysonski
 The effect of ethics
courses on the
ethical judgement-
making ability of Maisarah Mohamed
Malaysian Saat, Stacey Porter,
Kunal Malik6 2010 accounting students Gordon Woodbine
 The relationship of Steven H.
ethical climate to Appelbaum, Kyle J.
deviant workplace Deguire, Mathieu
Kunal Malik7 2005 behaviour Lay
 INFLUENCE OF Atay, Eda Gurel
MATERIALISM ON Sirgy, Joseph
LIFE Husić, Melika
Gaurav GR7 2010 SATISFACTION Čičič, Muris
 What does ethical
behaviour mean in
management
Kunal Malik8 2008 activities? Claudio Baccarani
 Money ethic, moral
conduct and work
related attitudes:
Field study from the Gbolahan
public sector in Gbadamosi, Patricia
Kunal Malik9 2005 Swaziland Joubert
 Effects of
materialism on work- Deckop, John
related personal well- Jurkiewicz, Carole
Gaurav GR8 2010 being. Giacalone, Robert
 Consumerism and
Malik10(and the ethical attitudes: an Abbas J. Ali, Joette
Kunal last) 2010 empirical study M. Wisniesk
 The impact of
ethical concerns on Lindsey Carey1,
family consumer Deirdre Shaw2 and
Gaurav GR9 2004 decision-making Edward Shiu3
 Religiousness, Love
of Money, and
Ethical
Attitudes of
Malaysian
Evangelical
Christians in
Gaurav GR10 2007 Business Hong Meng Wong
 Data Analysis
Sampling Techniques Techniques (Scales of
Contribution Used measurement used) Findings

The more materialistic

youth tended to shop
more often and save
less, and among those
who held a job, the more
materialistic youths
earned more money.
This study gives us measures Whereas the relation
for materialism, talks about It employs a 4-point, 10- between materialism and
gender being a moderating item Youth Materialism both the youths‘ liking for
variable for materialism and scale and a 4-point, 8- and performance in
also reveals a modest item Parent Materialism school was significant
negative relation between scale that have been and negative, the
materialism and liking for derived from Belk's and absolute size of the
school and school Richin's & Dawson's differences were quite
performance among youth. Judgement sampling Materialism Scales. small.

It explores the relationship
between materialism and
money attitudes - power
spending money attitude,
obsession money attitude,
security/conservation of
money, retention of money,
feelings of inadequacy
towards money.
Materialism was
negatively related to the
conservative approach to
money, positively related
to feelings of inadequacy
about money and the
tendency to use money
5-point 18-item Richin's as a self-aggrandizing
and Dawson's mechanism and
Materialism Scale, 5- unrelated to negative
point 45-item Fumham's emotions toward money.
Money Beliefs and The link between money
Behaviors Scale and possessions may be
Convenience Sampling (MBBS) mediated by materialism.
The relationship between
retailing students' beliefs and
values about life and their
reactions to and perceptions
of ethical dilemmas in
retailing settings was
investigated. Results of this
exploratory study did not
support the contention that
beliefs and values, as a
measure of ethical
orientation, are related to
one's perception of retailing
scenarios as either ethical or
unethical.
The purpose of this study is
to analyze whether there
exists a correlation between
ethics and the level of
materialism in Generation X
(born between 1960 & 1982).
This study revealed
instead that students do
24-item Beliefs and recognize ethical or
Values Questionnaire unethical situations in
(BVQ) developed by retailing regardless of
Foltz and Miller. their beliefs about people
Convenience Sampling and life.
This study supports the
negative correlation
between materialism and
ethics. It also identifies
18-item 5-point Likert Gen X as not low in
scale by Richins and materialism and high in
Dawson, Muncy and consumer ethical values
Vitell's 27-item 5-point building upon defining
Likert scale Judgment Sampling the Generation X cohort.

This paper assesses the
current state of the Belk
Materialism scale and tests
its reliability and validity.
This paper talks about
common method biases that
can occur during the data
collection phase of any study,
which can ultimately lead to
skewed and inaccurate
results.
The scale may need to
be expanded to sample,
the entire domain of the
materialism construct.
Second, if personality
traits are insufficient to
measure materialism,
then the idea that
materialism is a
manifestation of
27-item Belk personality may need to
Stratified Sampling Materialism scale be altered.
After discussing the
biases, the paper goes
on to analyse remedies
that can be used to get
rid of or at least partially
overcome these
- - common method biases.

Three measures of
materialistic traits are
proposed, measured, and
tested: possessiveness, non-
generosity, and envy. Both
convergent and divergent
validity are examined. Gender
is used as a mediating
variable. Majority of the
respondents are business
school students.
The three measures of
materialism examined
here are not perfect
measures, but they
appear to be adequately
reliable a valid to prove
useful in consumer
research until improved
measures are
constructed. These
findings provide
evidence that
materialistic people do
not tent to be happy
people. This tends to be
least true with
possessiveness and
most true with envy.
3 30-35 item 5-point Further generosity
Likert scales: 1 each for appears to have real, but
possessiveness, non- non-material, benefits as
Convenience Sampling generosity and envy. others have suggested

This study explores the
relationship between an
individual's long term
orientation and consequent
ethical beliefs. It also
examines the role of work
ethic & conservative attitudes
in the formation of a person's
long term orientation and
consequent ethical beliefs.
6-item 7-point Scale of
conservatism by
Sturdivant, 9-item scale
of Cherrington for work
ethic, Long Term
Orientation by 2-factor 8-
item scale by Bearden,
ethical values using the
4-item general honesty It has been found that
and integrity dimension high levels of Long Term
of the marketing norms Orientation produce
Convenience Sampling scale by Vitell et al, stronger ethical values.

This article explores the role
of Socially Desirable
Responding in conducting
research on dark side
consumer behavior, focusing
on the materialism value as a
case in point.
Materialism was
negatively correlated
with SDR, suggesting
Materialism was that SDR biased
measured with Richins materialism scores
and Dawson's 18-item downward. A similar
scale, compulsive finding emerged for the
buying by Faber and compulsive buying
O'Guinn's 7-item scale variable as well. By
and scoring equation. Cohen's standards for
Self-esteem was behavioral research. Self-
measured by esteem was positively
Rosenberg's 10-item correlated with SDR,
scale. Socially desirable suggesting that these
responding was American respondents
measured with Crowne sought to present the
and Marlowe's 33-item socially favorable view of
Convenience Sampling scale. liking themselves.

This study helps us develop
our understanding of the role
of moral awareness in
individuals' moral behavior by
considering organizational
influences on awareness.
The effect of moderating
variables such as sex, age
and education level is also
analysed.
The study indicates that
ethical work climate is a
primary predictor of
members' degree of
moral awareness. The
moderating variables
that we expected not to
alter the relationship
between EWC and moral
6 point Ethical Climate awareness were indeed
Questionnaire (ECQ) shown to be insignificant,
devised by Victor and with the sole exception
Cullen Judgment Sampling of education level
 testing hypotheses
through a structural
equation methodology
Impact of organizational applied to a sample of
learning capability (OLC) on 641 workers from 166
employees‘ ethical behavior Spanish consultancy firms
are few and found a positive,
and far between. This was direct relationship
the first aim of this study. The between OLC and
second centered on gaining a employability, OLC and
deeper understanding of the organizational
relationship between OLC commitment, employability
and ethical behavior by and organizational
analyzing the mediating role commitment, and
of employability and organizational
organizational commitment and ethical
commitment. behavior.

The type of values students
hold almost fully mediates the
relationship between the type
of department they belong to
and the outcome variables.
Aspiration Index
(Kasser & Ryan, 2001), Mediational analyses
which assesses the revealed that value
importance people orientations could
place on intrinsic and account for the fact that
extrinsic values. business students report
Participants recorded lower well-being and
whether they valued the higher drug use in
extrinsic goals of comparison to infant
Judgement financial success school teacher students.
Behavioral ethics is an
emerging field that takes an
empirical, social scientific
approach to the study of
business ethics. In this
special issue, we include six
articles that
fall within the domain of
behavioral ethics and that
focus on three
themes—moral awareness,
ethical decision making, and
reactions to unethical
behavior. Each of the articles
sheds
additional light on the specific
issues addressed. However,
we hope this special issue will
have an impact beyond that
of the new insights offered in
these articles, by stimulating
even
more research in this
burgeoning field.

approach to the study of

business ethics. In this
special issue, we include six
articles that

fall within the domain of

behavioral ethics and that
focus on three
themes—moral awareness,
ethical decision making, and
reactions to unethical
behavior. Each of the articles
sheds

additional light on the specific

issues addressed. However,
we hope this special issue will

have an impact beyond that

of the new insights offered in
these articles, by stimulating
even

more research in this

burgeoning field.

Business students who

received business ethics
intervention
significantly changed their
conceptions of unethical
behavior and reduced their
propensity to engage in theft;
while psychology Ethics training had some
studentswithout intervention impact on
had no such Love of Money, students‘ learning and
changes. Quota Machiavellian Scale education (intelligence).

This research examines the
influence of the love of
money and religiosity on the
Machiavellian
orientations of future
managers
The results revealed that
there is a positive
relationship between
love of money and
Machiavellianism. This
finding is consistent with
Glover‘s (1992)
observation that the
A four part Machiavellian streaks of
questionnaire was being power-hungry and
designed to collect the money-loving are
Judgement data. related.

How accounting students
view cheating actions inside
and outside the classroom. It
relates the love of money, a
psychological variable, to the
ethical perceptions of
accounting students by
examining their cheating
perceptions.
Accounting students
view cheating actions
outside the classroom as
more unethical than
cheating actions inside
the classroom. The love
of money is significantly
related to perceptions of
cheating.Instructors
should continue to
emphasize the
importance of ethical
behavior. Future
employers should
consider the love of
money as an important
A survey was developed psychological variable
based on cheating related to ethical
actions and the love of perception in their hiring
Quota money scale. decisions.

There is clear evidence of
increased voter awareness
and concern for
environmental and other
ethical issues, leading many
organisations to reappraise
and communicate more
effectively their ethical
credentials.
Following a qualitative
investigation using in-
depth discussions and
ZMET, a
questionnaire was
developed and
administered to a
representative UK
sample of
1,000 consumers. This
included a measure of Investigation has found
awareness, concern evidence to suggest that
and action on there are some
16 ethical issues, the differences
scale developed from in the levels of
the Stages of Change awareness and concern
concept within amongst the politically
the transtheoretical affiliated members of
Multistage model. the electorate.
participants judged actions
taken in manipulated high
moral intensity scenarios to
be more unethical than the
same actions taken in
manipulated low moral
intensity scenarios. Findings
were mixed for the effect of
perceived moral intensity.
Both probable magnitude of Regression of ethical
consequences (a factor judgment on age,
consisting of magnitude of gender, major, and the Ethical judgment was
consequences, probability of three perceived moral found to be a more
effect, and temporal intensity factors was robust predictor of
immediacy) and social significant between- intention than perceived
consensus had a significant subjects, but not within- moral intensity using a
effect; proximity did not. Systematic subject. within-subject design.
This study continues prior
research examining moral
reasoning, using the Defining
Issues Test version 2 (DIT-2),
as a predictor of ethical
awareness and ethical
intention of sixty-eight
accounting students in
business situations. It
extends current research on
moral development
examining the relationship
between moral reasoning and
ethical orientation using a
Multidimensional Ethics Scale
(MES)
the results reveal that
moral reasoning is not
related to the same
moral factor(s) in each
It extends current dilemma suggesting that
research on moral the DIT and MES have
development examining different bases of
the relationship between measurement and
moral reasoning and accounting students
ethical orientation using apply different moral
a Multidimensional factors in different
Judgement Ethics Scale (MES). situations.

The present study presents
efforts to establish evidence
for the construct validity of
scores on the Ethical Issues
Rating Scale, an instrument
designed to measure
respondents' assessment of
the importance of various
ethical issues
The results of this study have
added breadth and depth to
the inadequate empirical
database of studies that have
focused on crosscultural
ethics between Peru and
China
Factor-analytic results
using data from a
sample of students
enrolled in university
business courses (n =
213) supported the
existence of five
constructs: personal
integrity issues,
corporate integrity Suggestions regarding
issues, individual rights the usefulness of the
issues, environmental instrument and
issues, and international procedures for its further
Stratified sampling issues. refinement are offered
1.Research design
employed
by Robertson et al.
(2003) in their cross-
cultural
study of ethical
orientations between
the United
States and
Russia.Employees‘
Willingness to Sacrifice
Ethical Standards Peruvian employees
for Individual and Firm believe more in moral
Financial Rewards was absolutes
measured and have stricter, more
using four items cogent, definitions of
developed specifically morality compared to
Multistage for this study. Chinese.

Supports already conducted
research that students of
today are more ethically
aware.
It emphasizes faculty and
administrators to focus on the
importance of ethics
teaching, such as speaking to
students, holding faculty
training sessions, or funding
faculty curriculum
development in ethics.
Survey instrument
employed in both time
periods included a Findings suggest that
nearly identical set of 15 college students in 2001
vignettes depicting have higher ethical
ethically questionable attitudes or have a
situations.Respondents greater
were asked to awareness and
rank the acceptability of sensitivity to ethically
the situation and actions questionable
in each vignette on a behavior than their mid-
Systematic seven point Likert scale. 1980s counterparts.
The overall results
indicate that most
students will not engage
in unethical conduct if
they perceive that harm
will come to themselves
or others. This finding is
significant in that the
The instrument was moral behavior of
adapted from the KPMG students in college today
Ethical Survey (1998) is likely to carry over to
used a Likert 5 point the workplace in the
Cluster scale. future.

Calling for a rethink about
teaching Business ethics to B-
School Students.
This study is responding to
calls for the
need to document existing
ethical perspectives of
individuals from around the
world and to identify
the determinants of ethical
orientations
Recent meta-analysis on
counterproductive
behaviors in
three types of ethical organizations has shown
values,instrumental, that younger
caring, and employees are more
principled were likely to steal, come late
measured using a 5 to work, and engage in
Judgement point Likert scale production deviance
Research has enabled
more informed
discussions about what
is required
Multidimensional Ethics from ethical instruction in
Judgement Scale the future.
An understanding of the
effects of materialism on
individuals, families, society,
etc., is important in evaluating
whether or not it is socially
irresponsible for marketers to
encourage materialism.
However, the adequate
empirical work has not yet
been done on the overall
effects of materialism
Empirical evidence is
presented which would
indicate that materialism
is negatively correlated
with people's higher
ethical standards as
consumers. The
implications for this in
understanding social
Multidimensional Ethics responsibility are
Systematic Scale discussed.

This paper examines
evidence as to whether the
ethical decision making
process uses both rationality
and
intuition working conjointly,
and under what conditions
might one or the other more
strongly influence the ethical
decision process
The present study finds
limited support that vivid
versions of information
do
induce more associative,
intuitive processing when
participants are
confronted with
ethical dilemmas.
However, stronger
support is needed before
any firm conclusions
can be drawn. The
implication of such
findings, if supported, is
that ethical decision
makers might process
information differently
when the modality of
information
presented to the decision
Judgement maker differs

This paper takes into account
a poll conducted by the
Gallup Organization.
According to this opinion poll,
measuring the honesty and
ethics of different
professions, business
executives scored a lowly 25
percent. Accountants fared
little better at 41 percent. The
poll tells a story of the severe
damage that has been done
to business by the spate of
various accounting scandals Quota
There has been a huge
pressure on the
accountancy industry to
deliver quarter on
quarter results. The
increased pressure for
better performance has
resulted in bad practice
and revelations that have
tarnished the
accountancy industry as
An opinion poll was a whole. This has led to
conducted that mapped the industry stalwarts to
honesty and ethics on a choose between money
100 point scale or ethics.

This research paper has
contributed immensely to re-
think the definition of three
commonly used terms;
discuss links between ethics,
common sense and
rationality. The paper has
gone on and offered a model
integrating these terms and
present findings regarding the
understanding of common
sense and rationality.
The primary contribution of
this research paper is to
place students in the reality of
business in an emergency
environment and encourage
them to go ―out of the box‖ in
analysis of ethical issues.
One of the primary
findings of this paper are
that a much higher
percentage of
respondents understand
common
sense to have a very
A constant comparison similar meaning to the
method of analysis is literary definition than
used to identify those understanding the
common themes in the literary
definitions from a meaning of rationality.
sample of 38 Statistical analysis of the
convenient sample responses. findings agree.
The case describes the
activity of small
Information has been businesses in the
gathered based on transition period and
literature research and discusses
field studies, interviews why entrepreneurs
with entrepreneurs, moved their businesses
owners and into a black financial
employees of financial market. The case also
firms operated at the raises the
black financial market, moral dilemma between
and the representative helping entrepreneurs
of Belarusian official and avoiding illegal
Judgement financial institutions operations.
This research paper helps to
investigate the internal
structure of Gandhi‘s ethics
as a way
to determine opportunities for
improving that system‘s ability
to influence behavior. In this
paper, the
author aims to work under the
idea that a system of ethics is
a guide for social
responsibility.
Gandhi‘s ethics are
The data source is robust at the 0.25 level
Gandhi‘s set of ethics (the scale is zero to one
as described by Naess. – zero is lowest). This is
These simple (primarily consistent with theories
quantitative) studies of the social sciences
compare the concepts (that do not work well in
within the code of practice). Gandhi‘s
ethics, and their success might be
relationships to one ascribed to his
Judgement another. leadership ability.
 The paper uses a well-
accepted scale (with
several dimensions) to The findings clearly show
explore attitudes that attitudes towards
towards money. money in China are not
Research questions monolithic; instead there
examine how the are variations among
dimensions of attitudes young Chinese.
towards money affect Materialism is affected
materialism and by the power-prestige
achievement vanity. The and anxiety dimensions,
This research work helps us sample comprises 127 but unaffected by the
to understand attitudes young Chinese distrust dimension of
towards money in China and consumers. Statistical money attitudes.
how these attitudes affect results based on Achievement vanity is
elements of consumer confirmatory factor affected by the power-
behavior such as materialism analysis as well as path prestige dimension of
and vanity. Convenience Sample analysis are reported. money attitudes.

Valuable insights have been
provided as to how we can
evaluate the effectiveness of
ethics courses provided to
Malaysian accounting
students and judge their
impact on ethical judgement-
making ability.
Students who attended
an ethics course
improved significantly in
their ethical judgement-
making ability compared
to students who did not
attend the course. Male
students, non-Muslim
students and students in
The sample consisted private universities
of four universities benefit more from
which provide an ethics attending an ethics
course (experiment course compared to their
group) and two female and Muslim
universities which do students and those
not provide an ethics students in public
Quota course (control group). universities.

This research article
performs a literature review of
the existing body of
empirically-based studies
relating to the causes and
implications of how the
ethical climate of a
company ultimately affects
the incidence of workplace
deviance.
The research uses
Ethical Climate
Questionnaire
developed in 1987 by
Victor and Cullen , and
their implications in the Clearly, unethical and
daily work lives of deviant behaviour
participants. The problems are of great
causes of unethical concern to organizations,
behaviour, which must take steps to
including the presence solve them, at the same
of counter norms, the time as fostering strong
environment in which a positive ethical cultures.
firm operates, and Feels
organizational that further studies are
commitment, as well as needed using more
the manifestation of this definitive and qualitative
behaviour in the form of measurements to learn
workplace deviance, are more about
Convenience Sample reviewed. these behaviours.

This paper builds on Sirgy‘s1
theory of materialism
by integrating exposure to
materialistic advertising
and social infl uence into a
more comprehensive
model.
The study findings did
not support
Sirgy‘s explanation but
the same fi ndings shed
new light on a possible
diff erent explanation:
the more materialistic
people are, the more
they
seem to use all types of
Judgement standards of comparison
 It has been inferred that
the practice of ethics in
management assures
the vitality and the
competitiveness of the
firm. The paper answers
the following questions:
What does ethics really
mean in management
activity? How can
management
turn this concept into a
concrete tool to action?
What is the strategic
This paper revaluates the The approach is a profile of this ―path‖,
concept of ethics in literature analysis and looking for organizational
management activity. case study. excellence?

This study aims to investigate
perception of ethical and
moral conduct in the public
sector
in Swaziland, specifically, the
relationship among: money
ethic, attitude towards
business ethics,
corruption perception,
turnover intention, job
performance, job satisfaction,
and the demographic
profile of respondents.
Results indicated
significant relationship
among money ethic,
attitude towards
business
ethics, turnover intention
and job performance.
The importance of
The study was a survey money as a motivator
using self-administered was also
questionnaires. Using demonstrated.
stratified sampling Respondents hold that
technique in selected civil servants‘
organizations, usable involvement in corruption
data were collected is high and that bribery
from 83 and corruption is
public sector employees widespread in
Quota in Swaziland. Swaziland.
This study extends the
materialism research into the
organizational domain,
investigating whether
materialistic values are
related to work-related
indicators of personal well-
being. Our field study results
indicate that materialistic the relationship between
values are negatively materialism and work-
associated with a range of related personal well-
indicators of work-related being is driven by the
personal well-being, including happiness and centrality
intrinsic and extrinsic reward dimensions of
satisfaction, job satisfaction, materialism, and not by
and career satisfaction Judgement the success dimension

The primary contribution of
this paper is to investigate
consumerism and consumer
ethics and the relationship
between the two concepts. Quota
The results of a reliability
test and correlation
About 500 analysis indicated that
questionnaires are both scales are reliable
distributed to students and that the
at two universities in the consumerism scale is
United Arab Emirates. positively and
Frequency distribution significantly correlated
and one-way with the consumer ethics
multivariate analysis are scale. Furthermore, the
used to analyze the paper reveals that
data. Two scales are participants scored
used: consumerism and moderately high on both
consumer ethics. scales.

Ethical consumerism and
family consumer decision-
making, including the
influence of
children in this area, are
spheres of consumer
behaviour in which a
substantial amount of
academic research has
already been undertaken.
However, the crossover of
these two areas
is as yet under-researched,
as well as the level of pester
power parents are subjected
to from
children aged 3 and under.
This paper uses qualitative
methods to investigate the
issues
surrounding the ethical
consumer decision-making
process with families who
have children
aged 3 years old or under.
The method used for
analysing the data was
a grounded theory
analysis to enable the
meanings within the This research found that
interviews to emerge. the motivation to pursue
Seven steps, as an ethical
formulated by Easterby- lifestyle varied across the
Smith et al. (2003), sample, but the
were emergence of an
followed ‗inheritance factor‘,
(Familiarization, where
Reflection, parents are awakened to
Conceptualization, ethical issues because of
Cataloguing, the birth of their child,
Re-coding, Linking and was prominent.
finally Re-evaluation) in Other issues that
order to transpired from this
tease out pertinent research include the
themes and categories. prominence of ethical
Using grounded theory trade-offs
data analysis enabled in consumer decision-
the researcher to get making, ethical choices
close to the data in as normalizing behaviour
order and finally the
to gain insights into the presence of pester
deeper meanings of the power in the ethical
Stratified Sampling responses context.

This study
seeks to add to the
understanding of the
relationship
through a questionnaire
survey on Malaysian
Christians in
business. The questionnaire
taps into three different
constructs. The religiousness
construct is reflected in the
level of participation in
various common religious
activities.
The love of money construct
is captured through
the Love of Money Scale as
used in Luna-Arocas and
Tang
The study finds
some differences in the
ethical attitudes of
Malaysian
Christians in business
with different levels of
religiousness.
The study also finds that
those longer in the faith
are less
accepting of unethical
behavior. As such it can
be concluded
that there are ethical
A convenience sample attitude differences
of 300 was drawn between
from three large Christians in business
churches in the Kuala with different levels of
Lumpur area each religiousness.
with a congregation This lends support to the
exceeding 1000 claim of a positive
together with some relationship
representation from the between religion and
smaller churches business ethics.
 Gap Filled by our
Limitations Study

This study speaks of We shall conduct

materialism in youth the materialism
between the ages of survey amongst B-
9-14 years and their school students,
parents. They have mostly between 19-
not focused on 26 years of age. We
youth above the age shall also see the
of 18 years. It also implications of the
does not directly link materialism on the
materialism to ethical orientation of
ethical orientation. the respondents.
 Our study takes this
People could either research forward to
be high or low in show how
materialism, and materialism and
simultaneously love of money can
either tight or loose affect a person
with money. These more than just his
outcome measures attitude towards
have not been money, that it can
included in the actually affect his
current study. ethical orientation.
There may be a
response bias as
students may wish
to give socially
desirable
responses. Also,
BVQ scale is We will adapt some
perhaps not the method to check the
appropriate social desirability
measure for bias in the
examining ethical responses. we shall
orientation. A more also study more
direct and valid scales for
measure of ethical measuring ethical
or moral orientation orientation and
may prove more choose the most apt
fruitful. one.

We shall be
overcoming the
This study does not limitation of this
elaborate on the role study by
of gender as a differentiating
mediating variable between genders
on the correlation and adapting our
between study to reflect the
materialism and difference in
ethics of Gen X. findings.
The Belk scale is a
doubly indirect
measure. Not only
does it indirectly We shall be using
assess four the Materialism
personality traits, scale suggested by
but the scale is built Richins and
on the assumption Dawson, which
that people with more accurately
these traits are uses personality
more inclined to be traits to measure
materialistic. materialism.

Our study will use

the suggested
This paper is not framework and keep
supported with in mind the ways to
research findings for control common
the framework method biases
suggested by it to during data
control biases. collection.
 We have chosen to
study the scale
proposed by Richins
and Dawson as well,
and shall chose
It assumes that whichever one is a
these 3 constructs more apt measure
are an adequate of materialism. We
measure of shall also take this
generosity, so in fact scale forward as a
the Belk scale does tool to measure the
not measure impact on
materialism directly, materialism on
but on the basis of ethical orientation of
these 3 constructs. B-school students.
 We are adding to
This study is limited this study by
only to a few exploring the impact
constructs like of materialism and
conservatism and love of money to the
long term ethical orientation of
orientation. an individual.
 We shall take
necessary
It is suspected that precautions to
consumers are ensure that social
susceptible to over desirability bias
reporting in does not creep into
questionnaires. our findings.
The study does not
indicate a cause
and effect
relationship between
the independent
variables. There is a
direct, positive Our study goes
relationship between further to establish
them but cause and the impact of
effect cannot be materialism on
concluded. ethical orientation.
 We will try to find
out if the same thing
Two departments happens in India
taken from one where family and
university limit the social values are
scope of study. considered strong.
 We are studying
Some courses students of 1st and
make ethics strong 2nd year. 2nd year
and some courses students have taken
make them weak a course on ethics,
inside B-School. so we would able to
Such identification see if that helps in
not done in the strong ethical
study. foundation.
Longitudinal studies
to determine
whether these future
managers‘ love for
money does change
over time or not
have to be carried Taking it forward
out. into Indian context.
Other factors such
as students‘
economic status,
work experience, Accounting students
and ethnic didn't study any
backgrounds as course on ethics but
potential B-School students
determinants of the do. We will try to
love of money were see if ethics course
not examined. has a positive
Sample size was impact than it can
limited to two be suggested to be
universities. a part of syllabus.
It is unlikely that
ethical concerns
alone will sway voter Companies also
opinion, they could market themselves
contribute in the B-School
significantly to party scenario. We will
image and appeal study if that makes
and, ultimately, the any difference to
direction of the choices in applying
public vote. for S.I.P or C.R.P
Ethical judgment
basically stems from
ethical orientation
which we would be
taking up i the paper
 We have
incorporated the
differences between
ethical orientation
and ethical
None awareness
The ethical As we have also
orientation of taken the sample of
college students college students
tend to be biased therefore it will
based upon provide greater
environment and insight into the
background ethics rating scale

Codes of ethical
conduct and ethics
training have the
same effects on
Peruvian and Study in Indian
Chinese employees context which itself
needs to be is very culturally
surveyed. diverse.
The timing of
the survey The study would be
administrations may done in 2011 that is
have fallen at after 10 years. If
different points of true it will validate
ethical cycles. the earlier findings.

Only one university

considered and
geographical
location may also Students of XLRI
have effect on are from all parts of
ethical orientation. India which itself
Also it is not means lot of
necessary same diversity in terms of
ethical behavior geography,culture
would be shown by and values. So,
students at the issue of diversity will
workplace. be overcome.
This study was
limited to one public
university. Follow-up
research should
examine if the size,
reputation, nature XLRI is a private
(public vs. private) university which
and location of the overcomes the
university has an limitation of only
impact on the public university
replication of the taken in earlier
results of this study. study.

Greater knowledge
required about how
students and
businesses are
making decisions,
then discussions of
which tools are We will try to see if
appropriate to a pattern exists in
enable or constrain the decision making
those decisions process of B-School
become more students of both
apposite. years.
 As we are limiting
our study to b
school students
therefore our study
would help to
narrow down the
environmental
factors and
background
conditions affecting
None b school students
The extant literature
for the
manipulations of
vividness, affect, as
well as the
various dependent
measures used,
were theoretically By incorporating the
and primarily based essential dilemma
on the that exists between
decision making ethical decision
literature and not the making and love of
more specific area money we would be
of ethical decision extending this
making. research
The research is a bit
parochial in the
sense that it only
takes accountancy
industry into
consideration to
explore the impact
of ethics on money
and vice versa. If We will not focus
this study would only on the
have taken the accountancy
whole corporate industry but the
world into whole corporate
consideration then world as such. This
better results might would give us more
have been accurate and
produced. generalized results.
We feel that the
research should
have included a
random sample and
a definition of the Instead of the
term ―ethics‖ should convenient sample
be elaborate. taken in the
Research should research, we intend
further consider the to use a much
integration of ethics, random sample for
common sense and accurate and
rationality. appropriate results.

We will include
objective criteria
The research is such as
primarily based questionnaires into
literature research consideration which
and is hence a bit would reduce the
short on pragmatic subjectivity involved
applicability in the research.
We believe that this
approach is
somewhat
reductionist
because of its
superficial similarity
to approaches of
physical science. None.
Future research
could examine other
developing countries
and other
generational
consumer
segments. Another
future research topic
is to develop a
comprehensive
model of money We will cover
attitudes, samples of other
materialism, vanity, countries which
compulsive buying, would provide us
and their possible with a true picture of
antecedents or the general
moderators. consumer.
Many students still
apply conventional
reasoning skills
when dealing with
issues. None.
None
First, all variables
were measured
concurrently.
Therefore, the
statistical
relationships
among the
constructs may not
refl ect causation.
Future research
should conduct
longitudinal
studies and perhaps
experimental
studies, too.
Another limitation
may be related to
the sample.
The percentage of
females
participating in this
study was higher
than that of males.
One limitation of this
research is that this In order to
is a new approach benchmark, we will
and has never been use a similar
followed before. research conducted
Hence there is no for such purposes
benchmark to verify and evaluate based
this on. on that.
The sample size
was small and
hence limits
generalization
of findings, but We plan to use a
provides preliminary much wider sample
information for a size for our research
larger study. The purposes. This
need to enrich would not generalize
future studies the findings. Also,
with in-depth follow- we feel that follows
up interviews was up interviews are
noted. necessary.
 We intend to use a
more elaborate
The questionnaire questionnaire
used in the reliability covering a broader
test cannot be range of issues. We
exhaustive in also intend to
nature. Also, a wider interview people
range of sample who are not related
could have been to the education
used. sector.
None
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