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http://dx.doi.org/10.7318/KJFC.2008.23.2.163

A Canonical Correlation between Employee's Business Ethics Awareness and the Business Ethics Practice in Foodservice Industry  

Jung, Hyo-Sun (Department Culinary Science and Arts, KyungHee University)
Yoon, Hye-Hyun (Department Culinary Science and Arts, KyungHee University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.23, no.2, 2008 , pp. 163-171 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to measure employee ‘awareness’ and ‘practice’ of business ethics in the foodservice industry, and to determine possible correlations between these two variables. Self administrated questionnaires were completed by 1003 employees and data were analysed to ascertain frequency, factor, reliability, correlation and canonical correlation. Two factors were obtained from factor analysis of business ethics(BE) awareness; “Organizational awareness”, and “Individual awareness”. Similarly, two factors were also obtained for business ethics practice; “Systematic practice”, and “Compensatory practice”. Canonical correlation analysis produced two significant functions. For canonical function 1, it was found that organizational awareness of BE was positively correlated with systematic practice. For canonical function 2, it was found that individual awareness of BE was negatively correlated with the compensatory practices of BE. The findings of this study demonstrate that higher organizational awareness of business ethics in the foodservice industry led to higher systematic practices of BE, while higher individual awareness of BE led to lower compensatory practices of BE. In conclusion, higher organizational awareness of BE places a higher priority on building an external system from an institutional perspective, while higher employees awareness of BE leads to higher expectation from the company, resulting in relatively low compensatory practices.
Keywords
Business Ethics Awareness; Business Ethics Practice; Foodservice Industry Employee;
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