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Management Educators’ Expectations for Professional Ethics Development

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Professional associations, like the Academy of Management, exist to foster and promote scholarship, exchange among faculty, and an environment conducive to member professional ethics development. However, this last purpose of such organizations has received the least amount of attention. Moreover, previous research has demonstrated that there are differences in perceived needs for professional ethics development between tenured and untenured faculty. In the current research 260 Academy of Management members were surveyed. The research identified differences between tenured and untenured management faculty with respect to expectations for the Academy of Management to provide ethics education and research with respect to the professional code of conduct. Implications of the findings are discussed from a developmental perspective. Directions for future research are provided.

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Petrick, J.A., Scherer, R.F. Management Educators’ Expectations for Professional Ethics Development. J Bus Ethics 61, 301–314 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-005-2926-x

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