THE PERSPECTIVE OF USING THE NEO-KOHLBERGIAN APPROACH IN ORDER TO QUANTIFY THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC SECTOR

Andrei Tabarcea (tabarcea.andrei@feaa.uaic.ro)
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Andrei Tabarcea: FEAA, A. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

No 45-46, Social Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainable Business from Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Abstract: One of the main causes that lead to low levels of performance and competitiveness in the Romanian public sector is a lack of ethics from the participants to the economic processes. There are a number of methods to promote a deontological behavior inside public institutions: the organization of courses and seminars, the conception of ethical codes, rewording ethical behaviors and an organizational culture oriented towards ethics. The direct link between performance and a high moral development has been demonstrated by a large number of empirical studies. The object of this current study is to offer a perspective and an instrument that can quantify the moral development of employees before and after being exposed to measures that promote ethical behavior. The perspective that I propose is the neo-kohlbergian approach and the instrument that is going to be used is the Defining Issues Test (DIT). At the same time, in this study we analyze the managerial benefits of using a double-testing procedure to quantify the moral development of employees.

Keywords: ethic; Neo-kohlbergian approch; DIT; moral developmant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
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