Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine Chinese employees' perceptions on their ethical decision making in relation to the workplace guanxi context in state‐owned enterprises (SOE). Design/methodology/approach – Using a qualitative method, two rounds of interviews were conducted...

Purpose – The objective of this research is to develop and describe a conceptual framework of corporate ethics in total quality management (TQM). Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a summarised in‐depth and longitudinal case illustration. The summarised case describes...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful framework for the classification of the integrity trait in the moral context (ethics), offering an understandable conceptualization of a notion that although identified as central in the literature has is not been defined in a...

Purpose – To discuss organizations’ approaches to company values and ethics, an important aspect of which should be finding out from employees what their perceptions are – asking them “What do we stand for?” Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent...

Purpose: The paper aims to explore the possibility that a positive organizational reputation brings both benefits and burdens to employees working for those organizations. We argue that although organizational reputation can cause employees to identify more strongly with the organization, it may...