Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners

Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners

Personal integrity and social responsibility are very important values to make ethical and profitable organizational decisions. Personal integrity requires the decision makers to optimize their personal discretion in making trusted, credible, and profitable business decisions. Likewise, the social r...

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Main Author: Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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HF5549 Personnel management
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/2/Personal_integrity_and_social_responsibility_in_decision_making_process.pdf
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spelling iium-30222011-11-21T22:23:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/ Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd HF5549 Personnel management Personal integrity and social responsibility are very important values to make ethical and profitable organizational decisions. Personal integrity requires the decision makers to optimize their personal discretion in making trusted, credible, and profitable business decisions. Likewise, the social responsibility component sought decision makers to make decisions that providing benefits and repelling harms to the stakeholders. Both values are pertinent in the modern contexts that full with frauds, corruptions, and crime of breach of trusts (CBT).This paper investigates the perceptions of Western Australian small business owners toward the challenge to incorporate personal integrity and social responsibility in their decision making process. The study used personal interview technique with open ended interview questions to obtain the views of 15 business owners from Perth, Western Australia. More than half of the interviewees contended that three factors, namely the personal ethics, professional training, and religious belief, motivated decision makers to incorporate personal integrity and social responsibility in their decisions. The remaining interviewees argued that the need to meet the economic and legal requirements is the main factor for incorporating the two elements into their decisions. Nevertheless, the results of the study were not conclusive and cannot be generalized considering limitations on small number of interviewees and the location of the business owners. The study proposed that future research to use personal interview and self administered survey with more small business owners from other major cities in Australia. 2010-06-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/2/Personal_integrity_and_social_responsibility_in_decision_making_process.pdf Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd (2010) Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners. In: 5th National Human Resource Management Conference , 8 - 10 June, 2010, Kuala Terengganu.
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Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
description Personal integrity and social responsibility are very important values to make ethical and profitable organizational decisions. Personal integrity requires the decision makers to optimize their personal discretion in making trusted, credible, and profitable business decisions. Likewise, the social responsibility component sought decision makers to make decisions that providing benefits and repelling harms to the stakeholders. Both values are pertinent in the modern contexts that full with frauds, corruptions, and crime of breach of trusts (CBT).This paper investigates the perceptions of Western Australian small business owners toward the challenge to incorporate personal integrity and social responsibility in their decision making process. The study used personal interview technique with open ended interview questions to obtain the views of 15 business owners from Perth, Western Australia. More than half of the interviewees contended that three factors, namely the personal ethics, professional training, and religious belief, motivated decision makers to incorporate personal integrity and social responsibility in their decisions. The remaining interviewees argued that the need to meet the economic and legal requirements is the main factor for incorporating the two elements into their decisions. Nevertheless, the results of the study were not conclusive and cannot be generalized considering limitations on small number of interviewees and the location of the business owners. The study proposed that future research to use personal interview and self administered survey with more small business owners from other major cities in Australia.
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author Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd
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author_sort Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd
title Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
title_short Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
title_full Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
title_fullStr Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
title_full_unstemmed Personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western Australian small business owners
title_sort personal integrity and social responsibility in decision making process: the case of western australian small business owners
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3022/2/Personal_integrity_and_social_responsibility_in_decision_making_process.pdf
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