02317541gratuities, and professionalization of the purchasing function

Three topics concerning gratuity acceptance were investigated: (1) whether potential future purchasing agents were predisposed to accept gratuities or whether the practice of gratuity acceptance is a manifestation of the job itself, (2) whether the existence of a code of ethics forbidding gratuity acceptance curtails the occurrence, and (3) whether disparities in ethics policies between sales and purchasing functions affect gratuity acceptance.