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Measuring Systems of Virtues Development

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Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

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We focus on virtue ethics measures for business academicians and practitioners. Despite virtue ethics’ long history, virtue ethics scale development is a somewhat new field. Here, we introduce conceptualizations of virtue ethics and the attributes that define it, including three challenges to developing virtue ethics scales: subjectivity (virtues are person specific), cultural relativism (a globally recognized set of virtues may not exist), and psychological ego (people’s programming dictates responses to stimuli). Next, we discuss the psychology literature on which many virtue ethics scales are based and attempts to measure personal and group virtue ethics. Finally, we delineate challenges to virtue ethics scale development and best practices for avoiding social desirability and acquiescence bias.

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  1. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Dr., Edmond, OK, 73034, USA

    Grant C. Aguirre-Y-Luker

  2. Department of Marketing, College of Business, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Dept. 5280, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-8001, USA

    Michael R. Hyman

  3. Department of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis and Business Law, Mississippi State University, Mail Stop 9582, 324-F McCool Hall, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA

    Kevin J. Shanahan

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  1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

  2. Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gregory R. Beabout

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Business Department, University of Navarra, Pamploma, Spain

    Ignacio Ferrero

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Aguirre-Y-Luker, G.C., Hyman, M.R., Shanahan, K.J. (2017). Measuring Systems of Virtues Development. In: Sison, A., Beabout, G., Ferrero, I. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6510-8_39

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