BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y., March 19 (UPI) -- Most U.S. managers in work many deem physically dirty or socially or morally tainted tell the truth about what they do for a living, a university study said.
When asked on social occasions what they did for a living, 60 percent said they answered straightforwardly, the study by Blake Ashforth of Arizona State University, Glen Kreiner of the University of Cincinnati, Mark Clark of American University and Mel Fugate of Southern Methodist University said.
Thirty-seven percent said they were vague about their jobs and one person said he lied, the study published in the Academy of Management Journal said.
Being a manager did not distance most in those fields from their subordinates, in large part because "they have typically done -- or are still doing -- the tainted work themselves," the study's authors wrote.
The researchers interviewed 54 managers, three from each of 18 occupations that met the definition of "dirty," either because of the job's physical demands, its servile nature, the contact it requires with "socially undesirable" people or because it is morally or ethically tainted.
