Comportamiento ético gerencial
Keywords:
Managers, ethics, ethical behaviour, Colombia, Spain, Britain, values, honesty, use of power, managerial performance.Abstract
This paper describes an empirical research carried out in Colombia, Spain and Britain since 1997. Its purpose is to answer to the questions: What does it mean to be an ethical manager? And which behaviours define an ethical manager? Findings show that an ethical manager acts in three levels, each one containing one category: individual level-values; organisational level-managerial performance; social levelexternal relations. Among categories, the two dimensions that obtained the biggest importance in the three countries were honesty and use of power. We propose the design of strategies oriented to managerial development in these two dimensions, especially from the human resource management department.
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