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Business ethics not only upgrades the corporations’ working standards but also innovates employees’ aptitude for effective project management. Due to business ethics implementation, Emaar Properties is a multinational real estate developmental corporation. In Emaar Properties, business ethics casts a beneficial impact on stakeholders’ involvement, employee loyalty, and consumers’ satisfaction with the latest product portfolio. This paper yields the business ethics practices within Emaar and the reasons for being engaged in such practices. Moreover, the paper inspects Emaar’s ethical behavior in several activities, scrutinizes if the company has ever been penalized for any unethical behavior, and provides some essential recommendations for management concerning ethical behaviors.
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Andersch, H., Arnold, C., Seemann, A. K., & Lindenmeier, J. (2019). Understanding ethical purchasing behavior: Validation of an enhanced stage model of ethical behavior. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 48, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.02.004
Anderson, T. W. (2003). An introduction to multivariate statistical analysis. United Kingdom: Wiley.
Areiqat, A. Y., Alali, A., & Arikat, Y. (2018). Risk management to avoid project failure: a comparison study of construction projects in the GCC. International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, 8(2), 87-105. https://doi.org/abs/10.1504/IJBCRM.2018.092910
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Bodolica, V., Spraggon, M., & Shahid, A. (2018). Strategic adaptation to environmental jolts: an analysis of corporate resilience in the property development sector in Dubai. Middle East Journal of Management, 5(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/abs/10.1504/MEJM.2018.088724
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DeTienne, K. B., Ellertson, C. F., Ingerson, M. C., & Dudley, W. R. (2021). Ethical development in business morals and ethics: An examination and critique. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(3), 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04351-0
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Filzmoser, P., Varmuza, K. (2016). Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Chemometrics. United States: CRC Press.
Gölgeci, I., Arslan, A., Dikova, D., & Gligor, D. M. (2019). Resilient agility in volatile economies: institutional and organizational antecedents. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 33(1), 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-02-2019-0033
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Heumann, C., Schomaker, M. (2017). Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis: With Exercises, Solutions and Applications in R. Germany: Springer International Publishing.
Jha, J.K., & Singh, M. (2021). Who cares about ethical practices at workplace? A taxonomy of employees’ unethical conduct from top management perspective. International Journal of Organizational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-07-2020-2321
Kaur, A. (2019). Impact of Work Place Ethics on Employee and Organization Productivity. Gyan Management Journal, 13(2), 1-6.
Kreismann, D., & Talaulicar, T. (2021). Business ethics training in human resource development: A literature review. Human Resource Development Review, 20(1), 68-105. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1534484320983533
Lozano, J. M. (2012). Ethics and Organizations: Understanding Business Ethics as a Learning Process. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
Majumdar, S. (2017). Performance analysis of listed companies in the UAE-Using DEA Malmquist index approach. American Journal of Operations Research, 7, 133-151. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3345138
Malik, H., & Mehmood, M. (2022). Impact of Authentic Leadership, Sustainable Leadership on Sustainable Growth with Mediating Role of Organizational Learning. Academic Journal of Social Sciences (AJSS), 6(1), 48-69. https://doi.org/10.54692/ajss.2022.06011681
Morrissette, C. (2020). International experiences and practices in managing mega infrastructure risk. Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable Development, 2(1), 126-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/24724718.2022.2039055
Mostafa, A. M. S., & Shen, J. (2019). Ethical leadership, internal CSR, organisational engagement and organisational workplace deviance. In Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, 8(1), 113-127. https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:eme:ebhpps:ebhrm-03-2019-0026
Sunanda, K. (2020). Impact of work place ethics on employee and organization productivity. International Journal of Management (IJM), 9(1), 22-28.
Tsalikis, J., & Fritzsche, D. J. (2013). Business ethics: A literature review that focuses on marketing and businesses' ethics. Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics, 337-4049. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4126-3_17
Tushar, H. (2017). The role of ethical leadership in developing sustainable organization. Australasian Journal of Law, Ethics, and Governance (AJLEG), 2(2), 83-95. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782780
Werhane, P. H., & Freeman, R. E. (1999). Business ethics: the state of the art. International Journal of Management Reviews, 1(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2370.00002.