Empirical Look at the Factors Affecting Perception of Business Ethics in Turkey

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  • Vedat Akman Beykent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2011.5

Abstract

This study aims to explore the influence of gender, age, education, profession and sector choices towards factors affecting business ethics in Turkey. Self-administered questionnaire with scale of 1-5 was used to measure attitudes towards business ethics (1= "strongly agree" to 5="strongly disagree") with reasonable good score on Cronbach's realibility test. With Cronbach alpha of .692 and KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Meaure of Sampling Adequecy) .746 (which sould be greater than .5 for a satisfactor analysis) we proceeded to our analysis successfully.  Choice job, sector, age and gender were significant determinants to factors affecting perception of business ethics but education level was not a significant determinant.

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2011-07-23

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011)

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