Profits, Layoffs and Priorities
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This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, we categorize accounting, economic and ethically-based rationales that differ from the profitmaximizing recommendation. Results also show that those who make non-profit-maximizing recommendations consider but ultimately reject the profit-maximizing approach to layoffs.
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