Unethical behavior at work : perception of frequency of occurrence and tolerance of misconduct in companies in Portugal

Swiatkiewicz, Olgierd

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Unethical behavior at work : perception of frequency of occurrence and tolerance of misconduct in companies in Portugal

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dc.contributor.author	Swiatkiewicz, Olgierd
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-29T08:24:09Z
dc.date.available	2014-07-29T08:24:09Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	In this paper we present and discuss the problem of unethical behavior at workplace. Firstly, we clarify and distinguish notions of unethical and improper behavior, and how they change when we move from an organizational to a societal point of view. Secondly, we present a literature review on the topic of unethical/improper behavior at work. The main part of the text focuses on results of an empirical study on perception of frequency of occurrence and tolerance of a set of different types of unethical behavior. The results come from a survey carried out in Portugal on convenience sample. Using exploratory factor analysis we get three factors which explain 52% of the result variance of perception frequency and seven factors, from which two were retained, which explain 26% of the result variance of tolerance frequency. The factors demonstrated correlations with some independent (individual and institutional) variables (sex; age; level of education; tenure; hierarchical level; actual and future sense of security of employment and career development; property and capital origin of the company; its size, age, sector and financial situation). We underline that among other the two factors of tolerance are positively correlated with the level of education of respondents.	por
dc.identifier.citation	In ed. Andrzej F. Bocian - Globalizacja. Polityka. Etyka. Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Bialymstoku, 2012	por
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-7431-325-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/6614
dc.language.iso	eng	por
dc.peerreviewed	yes	por
dc.subject	Unethical behavior	por
dc.subject	Improper behavior	por
dc.subject	Occurrence of misconduct	por
dc.subject	Tolerance of misconduct	por
dc.subject	Cultural context in Portugal	por
dc.subject	Business context in Portugal	por
dc.title	Unethical behavior at work : perception of frequency of occurrence and tolerance of misconduct in companies in Portugal	por
dc.type	book part
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oaire.citation.endPage	115	por
oaire.citation.startPage	87	por
oaire.citation.title	Globalizacja. Polityka. Etyka	por
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rcaap.rights	openAccess	por
rcaap.type	bookPart	por
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