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The effects of an ethics training program on attitude, knowledge, and transfer of training of office professionals: A treatment‐ and control‐group design
Author(s) -
Frisque Deloise A.,
Kolb Judith A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.1224
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , control (management) , psychology , treatment and control groups , medical education , medicine , management , meteorology , physics , economics
This study examines the effects of ethics training on the attitudes, knowledgebased scores, and analysis of ethical dilemmas among office professionals. A treatment‐and control‐group design was used with variables of interest measured before, immediately after, and ninety days following completion of a six‐hour ethics training workshop. A Web‐based research randomizer was used with an electronic file to identify full‐time office professionals at a large university in the northeastern United States. Seventy‐one participants were assigned to the treatment (training) group, twenty to the control group. Results indicate significant differences in attitude and analysis of ethical dilemmas between the two groups.