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Ethics article review

The Business of Ethics and Gender

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Tutor: Mrs. Ma
Student for this assignment: Ho Hok Lam, Hades (09545700D)

Groupmates: Leung Long Ki, Lilan 08215297d

Cheung Ka Ming, Issac 07167821d
Li Ka Ying, Helen 07030080d
Li Chun Yu, Bobby 07590201d
Lee Lai Shan, Kris 09138355d

Group Number: 1
Class meeting day & time: Monday, 0930-1230

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This article is researching on how gender influences the ethical decision-making. Unlike the

researches done before, this paper reveals ͞gender͟ in a multidimensional sense that

includes biological sex, psychological gender traits and gender-role attitudes. The method

used in the research is asking 224 undergraduate business students to complete the

questionaires and the results are generated by statistical measurement. The research finds

that only biological sex does not affect the results of perceiving unethical issue. However, if

gender is intrepreted as a social-psychological construct, the perceptions to ethics between

sexes are different. The result shows some interesting phenomenons that female are less

ethical than male in perceiving ͚giving and receiving gifts in exchange for preferential

treatment͛. (McCabe & Ingram, 2006, p.107) In addition, people, who have more expressive

traits rather than having instrumental traits, are more ethical. Also, if people͛s gender-role

attitudes tend to be eqalitarianism but not traditionism, they will be more ethical.

According to the paper, gender traits can affect the ethical perception. Since male have more

instrumental traits and female have more expressive traits (Bozionelos & Bozitionelos, 2003),

male may arise more unethical issues than female. Also, male tends to be stronger on taking

risk than female (Becker & Ulstad, 2007). Therefore, male may still undergo an unethical

issue although they can identify the correct ethical standard. Gender-role attitudes can affect

the perception too but it has the limitation on projecting the issue. The reason is that the

attitudes are social interactive (McCabe & Ingram, 2006) and the samples used in this

research are students but not workforce. Students may be influenced by the company

culture in their future career. For example, the top management in Enron instilled the greedy

and unethical sense to their employees by rooting the company culture. (Rondal, 2003) This

research provides a new interpretation on ͞gender͟ but the perceptions on ethics are

affected by the social norms and the culture within the institution.

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