"İş Ahlakı" Cinsiyetler Arasındaki Farklılıklar Açısından Literatür İncelemesi

Tanımı ve kapsamı üzerinde özellikle son 20 yıldır yapılan arastırmalara ragmen “is ahlakı” kavramı henüz literatürde “aydınlatılabilmis” kavramlar arasında yerini alamamıstır. Bunun birçok sebebi olmasına karsılık en belirgin sebeplerden birisi olarak cinsiyet farklılıgı gösterilebilir. Kadın yöneticilerin is gücündeki artan oranı önemli bir egilimdir ve bu egilim “ahlaki karar verme” konusundaki ilgiyi de uyandırmaktadır (Dawson, 1995:61). Arastırmacıların bir çoguna göre ahlaki konulardaki problemlerin çözümünde kadın ve erkekler birbirlerinden ayrılmaktadırlar. Genel bir sonuç olarak, erkekler ahlaki konuları daha çok adalet, kurallar ve bireysel haklar olarak algılarken, kadınlar iliskiler, ilgi gösterme ve merhamet kavramlarıyla iliskilendirerek algılamaktadırlar. Bu makalede, konu ile ilgili bazı arastırmaların sonuçları paylasılmakta ve karsılastırılmaktadır. Arastırma sonuçları genel olarak, kadın çalısanların hem algılamaları hem de davranıslarının erkek çalısanlardan farklı oldugunu göstermektedir. Fakat bu arastırma sonuçlarının kültürel ve sektörel farklılıklardan etkilenebilecegi yönünde bir takım sınırlamaların da bulundugu göz önüne alınmalıdır

Business Ethics: Literature Survey on Gender Differences

Business ethics has not yet taken its place among the “defined” and “clear” concepts in the literature despite the numerous researches made in the last two decades. Gender difference is one the main reasons of this ambivalence. The increased participation of women in the work force is an important trend and this trend has generated research interest in "ethical decision making". For the majority of researchers, men and women differ in how they solve moral dilemmas. As a general result, men are likely to consider moral issues in terms of justice, rules and individual rights. Women, on the other hand, tend to consider such issues in terms of relationship, caring and compassion. In this article, the results of some researches made on this issue are shared and compared. These researches’ results generally show that both perceptions and behaviors of female employees differ from males’. But also, there are some limitations, which force us to think that these differences between genders may change as of cultural and sectoral differences.

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