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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2016.14.4.173

A Study on the Effect of CEO ethics on the business performance of company -Focusing on construction companies -  

Kim, Kil-Hong (Dept. of Techno Management, Graduate School, Hoseo University)
Yang, Dong-Woo (Dept. of Techno Management, Graduate School, Hoseo University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.14, no.4, 2016 , pp. 173-183 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to see how a CEO's ethics affects each company's business performance, as the ethical management of global companies are being one of the social issues at this time, particularly in construction companies. The survey was conducted amongst the engineers and managers who are currently engaged in domestic major companies as well as small businesses, and analyzed based on the frequency, reliability, factor, and multiple regression method. The results are as follows by use of SPSS 20 as a statistical analysis tool. CEO's ethics has a positive effect on financial performance, business ethics, organizational achievement, social achievement. The study found that the higher ethical sense a CEO has, which is one of the highest values of CEO, the higher ownership an employee has, and the more a CEO has a communication with the employees, the more credibility is mutually built, which will be a driving force of company's development. This study needs more wide study for on the effect of CEO's ethics on the business performance of general company in the future.
Keywords
CEO'ethics; business ethics; organizational performance; social performance and financial performance;
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