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Impact of Business Students Subconscious in Ethical Decision-Making
Event Title
26th International EurOMA Conference 2019 "Operations adding value to society"
Year (definitive publication)
2019
Language
English
Country
Finland
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Abstract
A usual management task in organizations is decision-making, and some of the most critical decisions made by business leaders involve ethical components. Our behavioural-ethics-field research explores the subconscious influence of business students (BS) on ethical decision-making processes by applying cases that report ethical dilemmas. A questionnaire with neutral or non-neutral images acting as subliminal stimuli was administered to 30+30 BS to determine the ethical maturity level in decision-making processes and the subconscious influences in these decisions. Cognitive biases and BS metacognitive strategies were identified when non-neutral images were present. The effects of the subconscious in BS ethical decision-making are discussed.
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Keywords
Business students,Ethics education,Business Ethical decision-making biases
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Economics and Business - Social Sciences
- Educational Sciences - Social Sciences
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