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Impact of business-students subconscious in ethical decision-making
I. Almeida (Almeida, I.); J.M. Vilas-Boas da Silva (Silva, J.); Monika Möhring (Möhring, M.);
Proceedings of the 26th EurOMA Conference: 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 important decisions made by business leaders involve ethical components. Our behavioral-ethics-field research explores the business students (BS) subconscious influence in the ethical decision-making processes applying cases reporting ethical dilemmas. A questionnaire with neutral or non-neutral images acting as subliminal stimuli was administered to 30+30 BS trying to find out about 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 subconscious in BS ethical decision-making are discussed.
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Keywords
Business students,Ethics education,Business ethical decision-making biases
  • Economics and Business - Social Sciences

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