Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Lieber, Paul Stuart
Author's Email Address	pliebe1@lsu.edu
URN	etd-12092004-163021
Title	Public Relations Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department	Mass Communication
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title R. Kirby Goidel Committee Chair Gene Sands Committee Member Louis Day Committee Member Margaret DeFleur Committee Member Sean Lane Committee Member Omar Shehryar Dean's Representative
Keywords	New Zealand Australia moral development cross-cultural ethics public relations TARES defining issues test
Date of Defense	2004-12-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This two-part study employed 11 qualitative interviews, the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and a quantitative version of the five-factor TARES test to complete the first cross-cultural analysis of the ethical decision-making patterns of public relations practitioners. The DIT is an instrument based on Kohlberg’s (1969) moral development theory, the TARES test composed of 14 self-enforced, ethical consideration statements derived from the research of Baker and Martinson (2001). Results indicate no statistically significant difference in levels of moral development and ethical consideration between sampled practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and the United States (Lieber, 2003). This finding argues for a vocational uniformity in moral and ethical reasoning across these countries despite geographic, cultural, economic and ethnic disparities.
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