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Research shows correlation between values and salary preferences of business executives
Research shows correlation between values and salary preferences of business executives. MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Executives who downplay ethics and values in their decision making may also be the ones who prefer extraordinarily high salaries for themselves. By comparison, those executives who are more inclined to consider ethics and values in their decisions preferred more fair pay throughout their organizations. Diane Swanson, associate professor of management and the von Waaden business administration professor at Kansas State University, said this is the most significant implication of her recent research. In addition, Swanson said executives who are more likely to downplay values in decisions and prefer extraordinarily high salaries are also the ones who have received more business education. "This is yet more evidence of business education teaching greed and self-centeredness instead of service to community," Swanson said.

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