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Tutor: Mrs. Ma
Student for this assignment: Ho Hok Lam, Hades (09545700D)
Group Number: 1
Class meeting day & time: Monday, 0930-1230
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This article is researching on how gender influences the ethical decision-making. Unlike the
researches done before, this paper reveals ͞gender͟ in a multidimensional sense that
includes biological sex, psychological gender traits and gender-role attitudes. The method
used in the research is asking 224 undergraduate business students to complete the
questionaires and the results are generated by statistical measurement. The research finds
that only biological sex does not affect the results of perceiving unethical issue. However, if
sexes are different. The result shows some interesting phenomenons that female are less
ethical than male in perceiving ͚giving and receiving gifts in exchange for preferential
treatment͛. (McCabe & Ingram, 2006, p.107) In addition, people, who have more expressive
traits rather than having instrumental traits, are more ethical. Also, if people͛s gender-role
attitudes tend to be eqalitarianism but not traditionism, they will be more ethical.
According to the paper, gender traits can affect the ethical perception. Since male have more
instrumental traits and female have more expressive traits (Bozionelos & Bozitionelos, 2003),
male may arise more unethical issues than female. Also, male tends to be stronger on taking
risk than female (Becker & Ulstad, 2007). Therefore, male may still undergo an unethical
issue although they can identify the correct ethical standard. Gender-role attitudes can affect
the perception too but it has the limitation on projecting the issue. The reason is that the
attitudes are social interactive (McCabe & Ingram, 2006) and the samples used in this
research are students but not workforce. Students may be influenced by the company
culture in their future career. For example, the top management in Enron instilled the greedy
and unethical sense to their employees by rooting the company culture. (Rondal, 2003) This
research provides a new interpretation on ͞gender͟ but the perceptions on ethics are
affected by the social norms and the culture within the institution.
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