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Situational ethics

About: Situational ethics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4023 publications have been published within this topic receiving 145379 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation, and compared them with non-teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity.
Abstract: This study explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation. Situational factors were also compared between teleworkers and non-teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

86 citations

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TL;DR: This paper found that women had a higher emotional discourse style score for managing the business than did men, and balanced their emotional language with the practicality of planning tasks and creating efficiencies.
Abstract: Language patterns of family business owners were explored by identifying discourse styles and emphasized ideas in four presenting contexts: business, family, intersection of family and business, and business success. The content analysis supports the existence of a general discourse style within family businesses and of similarities and differences between men and women in emphasized ideas as they frame their family businesses. The emotional discourse style (words of personal involvement, concern, and preference) was prominent across contexts for both genders, and there was a distinct absence of analytical language. Women had a higher emotional discourse style score for managing the business than did men, and balanced their emotional language with the practicality of planning tasks and creating efficiencies. Key Words: discourse, discourse analysis, family, gender, work. Business-owning families manage their work lives by negotiating the intersection of entrepreneurial endeavors with family obligations (Danes & Olson, 2003; Parasuranman, Purohit, Godshalk, & Beutell, 1996). Professionals who work with families in business need to understand the complex dynamics that this ongoing multisystem negotiation entails. These dynamics include how family members talk about their work, which reveals differences in how family members, such as spousal co-owners, may perceive their situation. Differences in perception are related to differences in actions, so understanding talk is an important part of understanding family business sustainability. Professionals who attend to how business owners talk about both the family and business aspects of their enterprise will be more effective in their consultant roles (Budge & Janoff, 1991). The complexity of working with family businesses evolves from the fact that they are composed of two unique systems that often overlap to varying degrees depending on situational circumstances (Stafford, Duncan, Danes, & Winter, 1999). In attempting to simplify the human dynamics within these complex family businesses, the systems of family and business often are described with labels such as emotional (family) and rational (business) arenas, and are prescribed with opposing tasks, values, goals, and rules. Outcomes emanating from this simplistic approach have some strong gender implications. Within the family business literature, the tendency is to consider the family as the system that impedes the functioning of the business (Borwick, 1986; Danes, Zuiker, Kean, & Arbuthnot, 1999; Ward, 1997). Much of that literature is based on case studies of family businesses with extensive problems or dysfunction. Within this same literature, women often are seen as problematic to family business functioning, and the family is viewed as needing to be managed (Budge & Janoff, 1991; Whiteside & Brown, 1991). Further, the role of women within the business system of family businesses often is characterized by the metaphor of "the invisible woman"; this phenomenon is explained by suggesting that the roles and rules of the family system (many of which are genderspecified) often are unconsciously integrated into the family business culture (Danes & Olson, 2003; Hollander & Bukowitz, 2002). In actuality, we know empirically little about the distinct manner in which men and women make sense of their family businesses. A contributing factor to this lack of knowledge is that much of what is written about family businesses comes through the discourses of psychology, accounting, business management, finance, or law rather than the discourse that family business owners use. As a result, little is known about the social context of language in family businesses, or the gendered discourse of that language. This study examined those voids and explicated the discourse of family business owners with two purposes: to identify language patterns used by male and female family business owners to describe the dynamics of their family businesses, and to identify ideas that are emphasized as they talk about their businesses. …

85 citations

01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how entrepreneurship can provide a satisfying and rewarding working life, providing a flexible lifestyle and considerable business autonomy, and it is becoming an increasingly important career option for school and university graduates.
Abstract: Entrepreneurship can provide a satisfying and rewarding working life, providing a flexible lifestyle and considerable business autonomy. It is becoming an increasingly important career option for school and university graduates.

85 citations

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Abstract: Using a controversial issue that has drawn massive media coverage in South Korea, the government decision to resume imports of US beef, this study tested the applicability of the Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS) to the rise of a hot-issue public. A survey of 300 respondents explored the perceptual, cognitive, and motivational antecedents of active information behaviors. Results suggest that the STOPS applies well to this unique sociopolitical situation, and that the theory works cross-culturally not only in the United States, but also in South Korea. In addition, we examined the role of cross-situational characteristics in detail, looking at whether political interest, prior experience in protest, and other sociodemographics could affect situational perceptions and cognitive frames. Theoretical and practical implications for future research and practices are discussed.

85 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the construction of occupational identity amongst a new and significant occupation: management consultants, and explore how consultants use these rhetorics to respond to issues of legitimacy, efficiency and vulnerability.
Abstract: In this article we explore the construction of occupational identity amongst a new and significant occupation: management consultants. Extending a conceptual framework developed by Fine (1996), we argue that occupational identity is not a consistent whole, but constructed from imagery to interpret and manage situations commonly experienced by occupational members. We argue that consultants, as an occupation, face three key structural constraints as features of their work, which we term, legitimacy, efficiency and vulnerability. On the basis of our interview data, we identify five social roles around which occupational `rhetorics' are constructed — professional, prophet, partner, business person, and service worker. We explore how consultants use these rhetorics to respond to issues of legitimacy, efficiency and vulnerability, and also highlight how different imagery is used based on its situational salience.

84 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20231,132
20222,631
2021154
2020179
2019133