You are here

Home » Content

An Important Antecedent of Ethical / Unethical Behavior: Religiosity

Journal Name:

  • Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics

Publication Year:

  • 2010

Key Words:

Author NameUniversity of Author
Abstract (2. Language): 
In This study, we aimed to explore the relationship between religiosity and business ethics. Two dimensions of religiosity – intrinsic and extrinsic- were studied. We have tested two hypotheses related to the relationship between religiosity and ethical attitudes. In our study, we surveyed 510 managers from 6 different organizations in Turkey. Our survey instruments have three parts. First part included 24-vignette ethics scale of Barnett and Brown (1994). Second part included 11-item religiosity scale of Allport and Ross (1967). Third part contained various demographic measures. Findings of the study show that intrinsic religiosity is partly and positively related with ethical attitudes and extrinsic religiosity is partly and negatively related to the ethical attitudes. In other words, intrinsically motivated people are more prone to behave ethically than extrinsically motivated people are.
Bookmark/Search this post with
FULL TEXT (PDF): 
PDF icon unethical-behavior-religiosity.pdf
  • 6
71-84
  • English

JEL Codes:

REFERENCES

References: 

Allport, G. W. (1950) The Individual and Religion. Newyork: Mac Millan.
Allport, Gordon W. (1966) “The religious context of prejudice”, Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 5: 447-457.
Allport, G. W. and Ross, J. M. (1967) “Personal Religious Orientation and Prejudice.” Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 432-443.
Amabile, T.M. (1996) Creativity in Context: Update to the Social Psychology of Creativity,
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Amabile, Teresa M. (1997) “Motivation Creativity in Organizations: On Doing What You Love
And Loving What You Do”, California Management Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall, pp.39-58.
Aydemir, M.; Göksu, A.; Obralic, M. (2009) “The Impacts of Religiosity on the Ethical
Attitudes of the Prospective Managers”, 1. International Symposium on Sustainable
Development - ISSD ’09, June 9-10, 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Volume 1,
pp.100-104.
Barnett, T. and Brown, G. (1994) “The Ethical Judgments of College Students Regarding
Business Issues.” Journal of Education for Business, 69, 333-339.
Bernardin, Andrew (2006) “Religion and Behavior,” Skeptic, Volume 12, Number 3, pp.22-25.
Bloodgood, James M., Turnley, William H. and Mudrack, Peter (2008) “The Influence of
Ethics Instruction, Religiosity, and Intelligence on Cheating Behavior,” Journal of Business
Ethics, 82:557-571.
Brass, Daniel J., Butterfield, Kenneth D. and Skaggs, Burce C. (1998) “Relationships and
Unethical Behavior: A Social Network Perspective”, Academy of Management Review, Vol.
23, No.1, 14-31.
Calkins, M. (2000) “Recovering Religion’s Prophetic Voice for Business Ethics.” Journal of
Business Ethics, 23: 339-352.
Clark, J. W. and Dawson, L. E. (1996) “Personal Religiousness and Ethical Judgements: An
Empirical Analysis.” Journal of Business Ethics, 15: 359-372.
Conroy, S. J. and Emerson, T. L. N. (2004) “Business Ethics and Religion: Religiosity as a
Predictor of Ethical Awareness among Students.” Journal of Business Ethics, 50: 383-396.
Cornwall, Marie and Albrecht, Stan L. (1986) “The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual
Model With and Empirical Test,” Review of Religious Research, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.226-243.
Donahue, M. J. (1985) “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religiousness: Review and Meta Analysis”,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48 (2): 400-419.
Fort, T. L. (1997) “Religion and Business Ethics: The Lessons from Political Morality.” Journal
of Business Ethics, 16, 3, 263-273.
Griffin, W. Ricky (1990) Management, 3rd Edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
p.809.
Huffman, Terry E. (1988) “In the World but not of the World: Religious, Alienation, and
Philosophy of Human nature among Bible college and Liberal Arts College Students”, (Iowa
State University, Ames Iowa) dissertation.
Hunt, S. D. and Vitell, S. J. (1993) “The General Theory of Marketing Ethics: A Retrospective
and Revision,” in N. C. Smith and A. John (Ed.). Ethics in Marketing, Quelch (Irwin Inc.,
Homewood, IL), 775–784.
Ibrahim, N. A.; Howard, D. P. and Angelidis, J. P. (2008) “The Relationship between
Religiousness and Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation: Are there Differences
between Business Managers and Students?” Journal of Business Ethics, 78: 165-174.
Kennedy, E. J. and Lawton, L. (1998) “Religiousness and Business Ethics.” Journal of Business
Ethics, 17: 163-175.
Madigan, Tim (2005) “The Basis of Morality”, Philosophy Now, June/July, pp.36-39.
Magill, G. (1992) “Theology in Business Ethics: Appealing to the Religious Imagination”,
Journal of Business Ethics, 11: 129-135.
McDaniel, S. W. and Burnett, J. J. (1990) “Consumer Religiosity and Retail Store Evaluative
Criteria”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 18: 101-112.
McMahon, T. F. (1986) “Creed, Cult, Code and Business Ethics.” Journal of Business Ethics, 5:
453-463.
Paloutzian, R. F. (1996). Invitation to the psychology of religion (2nd ed.). Needham Heights,
MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Perrin, Robin D. (2000) “Religiosity and Honesty: Continuing the Search for the
Consequential Dimension,” Review of Religious Research, Volume 41:4, pp.534-544.
Phau, I. and Kea, G. (2007) “Attitudes of University Students toward Business Ethics: A Cross-
National Investigation of Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.” Journal of Business Ethics, 72:
61-75.
Rashid, Md. Zabid and Ibrahim, Saidatul (2008) “The Effect of Culture and Religiosity on
Business Ethics: A Cross-cultural Comparison,” Journal of Business Ethics, 82: 907-917.
Saat, Maisarah Mohamed, Porter, Stacey, and Weedbine, Gordon (2009) “Does Religiosity
Influence Ethical Sensitivity? An Investigation on Malaysian Future Accountants,” Malaysian
Accounting Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 17-41.
Schermerhorn, John R. Jr. (1996) Management, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sims, Randi L. and Keon, Thomas L. (1999) “Determinants of Ethical Decision Making: The
Relationship of the Perceived Organizational Environment”, Journal of Business Ethics, 19:
393-401.
Singhapakdi, A.; Marta, J. K.; Rallapalli, K. C. and Rao, C. P. (2000) “Toward and
Understanding of Religiousness and Marketing Ethics: An Empirical Study.” Journal of
Business Ethics, 27: 305-319.
Siu, N. Y. M; Dickinson, J. R. and Lee, B. Y. Y. (2000) “Ethical Evaluations of Business Activities
and Personal Religiousness.” Teaching Business Ethics, 4: 239-256.
Stack, Steven and Kposowa, Augustine (2006) “The Effect of Religiosity on Tax Fraud
Acceptability: A Cross-National Analysis,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 45(3):
325-351.
Unrau, Norman and Schlackman, Jonah (2006) “Motivation and Its Relationship With
Reading Achievement in and Urban Middle School”, The Journal of Educational Research,
November/December, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp.81-101.
Vitell, Scott J., Paolillo, Joseph G. P., and Singh, Jatinger J. (2005) “Religiosity and Consumer
Ethics,” Journal of Business Ethics, 57: 175-181.
Vitell, S. J. and Muncy, J. (2005) “The Muncy–Vitell Consumer Ethics Scale: A Modification
and Application.” Journal of Business Ethics, 62(3), 267–275.
Vitell, S. J.; Paolillo, J. G. P. and Singh, J. J. (2006) “The Role of Money and Religiosity in
Determining Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs.” Journal of Business Ethics, 64: 117-124.
Vitell, S. J.; Singh, J. J. and Paolillo, J. (2007) “Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs: The Roles of Money,
Religiosity and Attitude toward Business.” Journal of Business Ethics, 73: 369-379.
Weaver, G. R. and Agle, B. R. (2002) “Religiosity and Ethical Behavior in Organizations: A
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective.” Academy of Management Review, 27(1), 77–98.

Thank you for copying data from http://www.arastirmax.com