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Journal of Business Ethics
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics 1/2016

09-09-2014

Ethics Training in the Indian IT Sector: Formal, Informal or Both?

Authors: Pratima Verma, Siddharth Mohapatra, Jan Löwstedt

Published in: Journal of Business Ethics | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

Ethics training—an important means to foster ethical decision-making in organisations—is carried out formally as well as informally. There are mixed findings as regards the effectiveness of formal versus informal ethics training. This study is one of its first kinds in which we have investigated the effectiveness of ethics training as it is carried out in the Indian IT sector. We have collected the views of Indian IT industry professionals concerning ethics training (N = 266), and employed positivist (regression analysis and hierarchical linear modeling) and interpretive research (content analysis). We first have argued that the importance of the perception towards ethics has bearings not only on the individual ideologies but also on the organisational ethical values. In doing so, first we have conceptualised a theoretical framework: Perception of Ethics Training in Employees and Organisations (PETINEO). Second, we have studied the correlations between various components of this model. Third, we, under the rubric of PETINEO, examined the effectiveness of ethics training programmes for the Indian IT companies. Fourth, we have elaborated upon the results of our study. Our results suggest that the combination of both formal and informal means to undertake ethics training has superior impact on ethical decision-making in the Indian IT industry as compared to the use of any one of them in isolation.
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Footnotes
1
Emanuel Kant, quoted in: Gardner (1999).
 
2
Informal learning is a kind of learning which is “implicit, unintended, opportunistic and unstructured learning and the absence of a teacher” (Eraut 2004, p. 250). Whereas the characteristics of formal learning are the following: “a prescribed learning framework, an organised learning event or package, the presence of a designated teacher or trainer, the award of a qualification or credit, and the external specification of outcomes” (Eraut 2000, p. 114).
 
3
Millennials are born between the early 1980s to early 2000s (Rainer and Rainer 2011).
 
4
Aristotle, quoted in: Benn (1998).
 
5
Ethicist Rushworth Kidder, quoted in: Johnson (2012).
 
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Metadata
Title
Ethics Training in the Indian IT Sector: Formal, Informal or Both?
Authors
Pratima Verma
Siddharth Mohapatra
Jan Löwstedt
Publication date
09-09-2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2331-4

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