TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Impact of Buddhist Ethics on Employee Performmance at Enterprises in the
Southern Vietnam
AU - Luong, Anh Thi Tuyet AU - Nguyen, Phuong Van 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SP  - 530
EP  - 542
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2017.530.542
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2017.530.542
KW  - Buddhist ethics
KW  -honesty
KW  -fairness and equality
KW  -humanity
KW  -cooperation
KW  -employee performance
AB  - This study aims to develop the conceptual framework to investigate the impact of Buddhist ethics
on employee performance throughout individual behavior and ethical leadership in the Southern Vietnam.
Based on 10 in-depth interviews with monks and managers we identified four main factors, including honesty,
fairness and equality, humanity and cooperation which are appropriate representative for Buddhist ethics at
the workplace. By analyzing a survey data conducted at 95 enterprises with 357 participants in the Southern
Vietnam and implementing SEM techniques, we found that four main factors of Buddhist ethics have
statistically significant positive impacts on individual behavior and ethical leadership. In turn, individual
behavior and ethical leadership are positively associated with employee performance in enterprises. The
findings also imply that with the mindsets of Buddhist perspectives, business leaders are able to generate
attractive and credible models to manage the followers more effectively and efficiently. Moreover, employees
with the positive attitude will devote more time and efforts to achieve their business goals in line with the good
ethical system.
ER  -