THE CONTENT AND CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS |
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Authors: | ZEGER VAN DER WAL |
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Affiliation: | Zeger van der Wal is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the VU University Amsterdam. |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical contextual picture of what is truly valued most in different public and private sector organizations. Through a series of qualitative in‐depth interviews (n = 38), that were a follow‐up to an earlier survey study among public and private sector managers (n = 382), a number of crucial organizational values were presented to and discussed with a selection of top managers from a variety of Dutch public and private sector organizations. The decision‐making context from the interviews provides insight into why, when, how and to what extent specific values are important. A number of unexpected differences and similarities between organizations with a different sectoral status emerge from the data, which shed new light on existing predispositions on value preferences in government and business conduct. |
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