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Ethical Attitudes of Future Business Leaders

Do They Vary by Gender and Religiosity?

Gerald Albaum

University of New Mexico

Robert A. Peterson

University of Texas at Austin

Corporations have multiple stakeholder groups. One stakeholder group consists of undergraduate business students, who collectively constitute the future leadership of corporations. Given the so-called ethical and legal lapses that have occurred in the early 2000s in such companies as Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, and Tyco, it is increasingly important to know the ethical perspectives of future business leaders so that their future behavior can be anticipated. This article reports on a survey of nearly 3,000 undergraduate business students from 58 universities and colleges in 32 states regarding certain general ethics-related attitudes and the degree of ethicality these students possess. Survey findings are relatively consistent with those generally reported in the literature—female survey participants are slightly but significantly more ethically inclined than male survey participants, and survey participants who report being very religious are slightly but significantly more ethically inclined than survey participants who are less religious.

Key Words: ethical attitudes • future business leaders • gender differences • religiosity differences

Business & Society, Vol. 45, No. 3, 300-321 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0007650306289388
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