Joseph A. Petrick

Wright State University | WSU · Department of Management and International Business

As the most populous democracy in the world and an aspiring global superpower, India needs to nurture its human capital through continually improving occupational safety and health (OSH). At present, measuring and improving India's workforce OSH is challenging because only 10% are employed in the organized formal sector, mainly in industry, mining...

In this manuscript, the authors examine the current state of workplace health and safety in Croatia during the recent recession and highlight efforts by international and regional organizations to assist the relatively young Croatian government with efforts to provide a safer work environment for Croatia's workers. Responsible managerial actions in...

The general pattern of irresponsible corporate actions, both domestically and globally, that have harmed market and nonmarket stakeholders has been well documented (Morgenson & Rosner 2011; Cohan 2011). The current Great Global Recession and the lack of corporate board accountability for supporting irresponsible corporate financial risk management...

The fundamental principles of world humanism that were affirmed in the Amsterdam Declaration of 2002 are being applied to diverse contexts through the research, education, and consulting work of the Humanistic Management Network (HMN). The HMN is an international, interdisciplinary, and nonprofit network that promotes the development of an economic...

The author identifies the major micro-, meso-, and macro-level financial risk shifting factors that contributed to the Great Global Recession and how the absence of a compelling moral vision of responsible financial risk management perpetuated the economic crisis and undermined the recovery by blind reliance upon insufficiently accountable bailouts...

Using 15 years of data (1995–2009) from literature reviews, survey questionnaires, personal interviews, and desktop research, the authors examine North American (Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America) regional trends in business ethics research, teaching and training. The patterns indicate that business ethics continues to flourish in No...

The main purpose of this theoretical paper is to delineate the nature, value and accountability of sustaining governance integrity capacity as an intangible strategic asset by public administrators in China and the United States. This study frames professional accountability of cross-cultural public administration in terms of strategic competencies...

The author regards the Great Global Recession as an opportunity to critically examine conventional capitalist, organisational, financial credit risk, psychological, ethical and management education assumptions in order to provide an alternative integrative paradigm of shared, sustained economic prosperity among multiple stakeholderssustainable stak...

Recent organizational ethics development trends have expanded the responsibility of human resource professionals. Research findings support the following: (a) Large organizations are more likely to expand the human resource professional role by offering diverse ethics-related programs; (b) the use of the new ethical climate research tool, the Organ...

This review article makes a contribution to understanding the current U.S. subprime mortgage and credit crisis that has adversely affected the global financial system in terms of its historical parallels with a recent Asia-Pacific financial crisis. It also looks at the distinctive ways in which bad actors and flawed processes at the macro-, meso-,...

To overcome the dysfunctional overemphasis on control and pronounced homogeneity of U.S. global leadership teams, the authors advocate a model of individual and collective development of the capacity for judgment integrity in leadership, ethics, and organizational change decisions to better address global behavioral, moral, and change complexity. T...

Instructors face enormous challenges in presenting effective instruction on concepts and tools of quality management. Most textbooks focus on presenting individual concepts or tools and fail to address complex issues confronted in real-world problem-solving situations. The supplementary use of cases does not help students to understand the dynamic...

This paper reports the results of nationwide opinion surveys of the public and Realtors concerning real estate agent ethics. Among other things, the data indicates no significant difference between the two group's ratings of agent ethics. The public rating of agent ethics in this survey is higher than last reported by Gallup. Also reported are resp...

Professional associations, like the Academy of Management, exist to foster and promote scholarship, exchange among faculty, and an environment conducive to member professional ethics development. However, this last purpose of such organizations has received the least amount of attention. Moreover, previous research has demonstrated that there are d...

The authors delineate the need to rebuild public trust in accounting in light of numerous domestic and international accounting scandals and use the Arthur Andersen LLP debacle to provide the comprehensive integrity capacity theoretical model for diagnosis of causes and prognosis of remedies for domestic and international accounting. They recommend...

The adverse impacts of the neglect of integrity capacity and business citizenship by Enron executives on multiple stakeholders are delineated by focusing on the violations of four dimensions of integrity capacity - process, judgment, development, and system. Proposed remedies for stakeholders are provided to prevent the future export of corporate i...

This article links the subfields of organisational ethics and organisational innovation in the context of five global technological challenges. The authors provide an interactive model of organisational innovation and integrity capacity that depicts parallel reinforcing findings at the individual, group, organisational and environmental levels of a...

To overcome the adverse impacts of overemphasizing external control in business leadership decision making and the adverse global impacts of extreme investor capitalism, the author proposes the development of judgment integrity capacity at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels. To address behavioral complexity at the microeconomic level,...

Is there a relationship between the psychological construct of hierarchic managerial role motivation and the moral construct of role-related ethical orientation? In this study we examine this question using responses from a sample of 147 business students in Hong Kong. Managerial role motivation or motivation to manage is defined as an internal for...

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This work discusses with the superior quality and project management that optimize the performance excellence of organizations, so every quality practitioner needs to be able to manage project quality effectively. Unfortunately, the combined leverage of quality and project management is often underutilized due to inadequate experience in both field...

The authors delineate the market-induced and government-subsidized food policy wars and their adverse impacts on domestic and global stakeholders. Four competing perspectives on food policy - the globalist, naturalist, egalitarian, and progressive perspectives - and three competing paradigms implementing food policy - the productionist paradigm, th...

The nature, value, and neglect of integrity capacity by managers and the adverse impacts that Enron executive practices have had on a range of stakeholders are delineated. An explanation is given on how moral competence in management practice is addressed by each dimension of the management integrity capacity construct (process, judgment, developme...

The authors identify the challenge of holding contemporary business leaders accountable for enhancing the intangible strategic asset of integrity capacity in organizations. After defining integrity capacity and framing it as part of a strategic resource model of sustainable global competitive advantage, the stakeholder costs of integrity capacity n...

While there exists a growing literature on corporate "green" strategies, there is a research gap about which corporate architectures and organizational change processes enable "green" strategies. This article addresses the research gap in an interdisciplinary manner by focusing on two questions: What conditions characterize ecological and humanly s...

In the United States today there are over 1,000 graduate programs offering master's degrees in management and operations research. Many of these programs, including those offered at 1st-tier schools, are based on models developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Although they continue to attract a greater number of students each year, industry professionals...

In this empirical study of 649 employees at a federally supported health care facility in the United States, the authors investigated the effects of individual gender role orientation on team schema. The results indicated (a) that nontraditional male and female employees perceived the greatest amount of group cohesion in their team schemas and (b)...

The authors propose that international organizational leaders can and should be held accountable for enhancing the intangible strategic asset of integrity capacity in order to advance global organisational excellence. After defining integrity capacity and framing it as part of a strategic resource model of sustainable global competitive advantage,...

Countering culture-based analyses indicating homogeneity in Indian management practices, this empirical study compares performance appraisal practices and management values in India by firm ownership. Differences in Indian private investor corporations, public sector enterprises, foreign/joint ventures and private family businesses are examined to...

The authors propose the integrity capacity construct with its four dimensions (process, judgment, development and system dimensions) as a framework for analyzing and resolving behavioral, moral and legal complexity in business ethics' issues at the individual and collective levels. They claim that moral progress in business comes about through the...

The authors review the three major western cosmological roots of biotechnology and the interdisciplinary challenges that face its sustainable environmental impact. They delineate the Islamic environmental philosophy of Mulla Sadra to provide a non-western cosmological framework for the global challenge presented by sustainable biotechnology. Compar...

The global leadership skills of behavioral complexity and stewardship development that contribute to corporate reputational capital are key intangible resources that leverage sustainable competitive advantage in the 21st century. Two lessons at the firm-and industry-level on the impact of inadequate global leadership and wasted reputational capital...

Quality management isn't understood by all the faculty who teach it.

This book tries to redefine what it means for a manager to function with integrity and competence in the private and public sectors domestically and globally. It integrates theoretical work in both descriptive and normative ethics and incorporates legal, communication, quality, and organizational theories into a conceptual framework designed to imp...

¿Por qué calidad total en la dirección de recursos humanos? -- Satisfacción del cliente: dimensiones de estrategia -- Mejora continua: dimensiones de proceso -- Hablar con pruebas: dimensiones de proyecto -- Respeto por los demás: dimensiones de actuación -- Implementación de la dirección de recursos humanos de calidad total

Through a detailed treatment of an ethics consulting case study, the authors identify the need to enhance the ethical culture in the health care environment of Children’s Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. Their models and methods of managerial ethics consulting demonstrate the value added to the client health care culture by professionally add...

Reports a study conducted to determine whether or not there were differences between descriptive and normative social responsibility values for managers who assume roles in different functional department clusters. The research findings support a conclusion that differences in CSRV profiles exist among three functional clusters: accounting/finance...

In summary, organizational ethics development trends have expanded the responsibility of human resource professionals. Human resource professionals who have been adequately trained and have competently responded to these role-expansion challenges are more likely to contribute to strong ethical cultures in productive organizations.

Identifies four conceptual models and four practical steps to enhance responsible management of organizations. The conceptual models discussed include: a modified process model of parallel strategic planning; a model of contractual/strategic development; a model of organizational theories and their relative moral emphases; and a model of organizati...

Failure rates of 30% for U.S. expatriate international managers relative to less than 10% for comparable Japanese and European international managers represent substantial costs to individuals, corporations, and U.S. global economic interests. The authors provide a profile of successful expatriate international managers and recommend four changes:...

Work morale has been a longstanding issue for managers in general, but it is assuming critical proportions for clinical laboratory managers today. Four key variables that determine work morale have been isolated: the job itself, the work group, management practices, and economic rewards. Regular assessment and development of these key morale variab...

Research on stress in the workplace has generally focused on situations which the investigator a priori perceives to be stressful for people at work. In the current study, an emic (insider) approach to identification of what constitutes a stressful work event is described as a complement to the outsider's perspective. Using content analysis, two br...

This longitudinal twenty-year (1980-2000) study of occupational safety trends in the U.S. high technology, small business electronics manufacturing industry results in three key findings: (1) while the number of workplace accidents and inspections decreased over the period, the penalties associated with violations increased; (2) the most common wor...

The challenge of innovatively redesigning management education to prepare future leaders to transform the U.S. form of disaster capitalism into global sustainable capitalism is vividly demonstrated by the current global financial risk management crisis. This paper makes a contribution to understanding the current U.S. subprime mortgage and credit c...