From Preaching to Behavioral Change: Fostering Ethics and Compliance Learning in the Workplace

Christian Hauser ()
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Christian Hauser: University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons

Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 162, issue 4, No 6, 835-855

Abstract: Abstract Despite the increasing inclusion of ethics and compliance issues in corporate training, the business world remains rife with breaches of responsible management conduct. This situation indicates a knowledge–practice gap among professionals, i.e., a discrepancy between their knowledge of responsible management principles and their behavior in day-to-day business life. With this in mind, this paper addresses the formative, developmental question of how companies’ ethics and compliance training programs should be organized in a manner that enhances their potential to be effective. Drawing on both the qualitative analysis of existing ethics and compliance training and the conceptual literature on behavioral ethics, a framework is proposed that consecutively aligns various types of training into a comprehensive ethics and compliance training program. The strengths and limitations of the suggested framework are discussed.

Keywords: Business ethics; Responsible management learning; Ethics training; Employee training; Ethical employee behavior; Compliance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 D73 K4 L2 M14 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04364-9

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