scholarly journals Principals’ moral agency and ethical decision-making: Towards transformational ethics

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabre Lynn Cherkowski ◽  
Keith D Walker ◽  
Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Leadership Responsibility ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

This descriptive study of the ethical decision-making among a group of Canadian principals provides a rich portrait of how and why principals engage their moral agency through their decision-making processes. Using a leadership responsibility framework linking moral agency and transformational leadership, the researchers found that: modeling moral agency is important for encouraging others to engage their own moral agency in the best interests of all children; despite efforts to engage in collaborative decision-making, principals are often faced with the reality that they are the one to absorb the cost of the decisions; and principals tend to engage less often in transformational aspects of leadership as part of the decision-making process. More research is needed to understand how school leaders can engage more often and more substantially in transformational leadership among their teachers and staff and how they build moral agency capacity in their schools.

Understanding the Millennials’ Integrated Ethical Decision-Making Process: Assessing the Relationship Between Personal Values and Cognitive Moral Reasoning

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1671-1706 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Weber
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Moral Reasoning

Focusing on millennials, individuals born between 1980 and 2000 and representing the largest generational population in our history, this research seeks to understand their ethical decision-making processes by exploring the distinctive, yet interconnected, theories of personal values and cognitive moral reasoning. Utilizing a decision-making framework introduced in the 1990s, we discover that there is a statistically supported relationship between a millennial’s personal value orientation and stage of cognitive moral reasoning. Moreover, we discover a strong relationship between three of the four value orientations and a corresponding stage of cognitive moral reasoning. The theoretical and practical research implications of our discovery about millennials’ decision making are discussed.

Ethical and Social Challenges

2016 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Francisco A Espinoza S
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Moral Free Space

Globalization has been a factor that has brought countries closer worldwide, and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are eager to look for new market opportunities in developing countries. This chapter analyzes the implementation of MNEs' global ethical principles in business into local moral standards of societies from developing countries. The author will discuss, using current scenarios, how principles of both moral relativism and moral absolutism can provide a profitable or punishable opportunity within developing countries when MNEs operate accordingly, or not, to ethical decision making processes in business. Additionally, the chapter proposes how MNEs' managers can discover the limits of moral free space, to distinguish a moral value in tension with their own from one that is intolerable. At the end, it is expected that MNEs' managers can apply ethical decision making in business by clearly perceiving and understanding their corporate culture in a developing country society.

Ethics and Evaluative Consultations with Children in Small to Mid-Sized Australian Non-Government Organisations

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Children’S Voices

The value of listening to children's voices is well acknowledged. The vast body of literature surrounding this topic discusses children's voices in pedagogy, theory, methodology, and through empirical research. While some of this literature has focused on ethical considerations surrounding evaluative consultations with children in applied practice settings, there is a shortage of literature specifically relevant to small and medium-sized nongovernment organisations (NGOs). These organisations typically conduct consultations on a smaller scale and with fewer resources than their larger counterparts. This paper refers to Australian ethical guidelines using a practice example from a mid-sized NGO to examine ethics in child consultation from a practice-based program improvement perspective. The paper examines whether consultations with children always require formal ethics approval and discusses terminology and considerations surrounding ethical decision making processes.

An Exploration of Ethical Decision-making Processes in the United States and Egypt

2007 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafik I. Beekun ◽  
Ramda Hamdy ◽  
James W. Westerman ◽  
Hassan R. HassabElnaby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Rehabilitation Counseling Ethics

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Reid ◽  
Connie J. McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Decision Making Processes

One of the hallmarks of a profession is attention to ethical standards; therefore, the purpose of this article is to increase awareness of current ethical issues related to Rehabilitation Counselingpractice, and to identify toolsfor addressing those issues in an ethically sound manner. Examples of ethical dilemmas involving disability in a counseling relationship are presented, and a review of literature related to ethics in this area is provided. An approach to addressing potentially hidden counselor bias and its effect on ethical decision-making processes is discussed.

scholarly journals Leiten oder leiten lassen? Gesprächsanalytische Beobachtungen zur interaktiven Aushandlung der Leitungsfunktion im Klassenrat

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-104
Author(s):  
Nadine Nell-Tuor ◽  
Nina Haldimann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Life ◽  
Leadership Responsibility ◽  
Teaching Format ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

Abstract The class council is a teaching format which takes place regularly, aiming at the teacher stepping back from his/her conventional role as the organizing authority in order to allow the students to participate directly in decision-making processes concerning their everyday school life. This format results in a unique interactional constellation among the participants. In this article, we explore this interactional constellation from the perspective of conversation and interaction analysis. On the basis of videographies of class council sessions in which students and teachers occupy different participation roles, we ask how those roles are negotiated interactively. With a specific focus on the teacher and the moderator (student), we ask to what extent the teacher is able to delegate leadership responsibility among the group. It is shown that teachers are only partly able to do so. Often, teachers influence the interaction on a multimodal level. The challenge of organizing the class council lies in the need for the participants to accomplish different (and in part incompatible) interactional orders: on the one hand, teachers as well as students have to consider their specific participation roles; on the other hand, their participation roles are framed institutionally and cannot easily be changed.

The “Evils” of Traditional Cost Accounting (DRAFT)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boaz Ronen ◽  
Joseph S Pliskin ◽  
Shimeon Pass
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Cost Structures ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

Traditional cost accounting lost its relevance, and those who use it for decision-making may cause damages to their organizations. Traditional cost accounting is no longer valid because of the changes in healthcare cost structures and changes in the competitive environment. The chapter shows that the assumptions of traditional cost accounting that were valid at the beginning of the 20th century are no longer valid for analyzing costs of healthcare service organizations. Reliance on the cost of the product or the cost of the service may lead to the loss of business opportunities on the one hand and interference in the decision-making processes on the other hand. Chapter 16 will present alternatives for traditional cost accounting that are appropriate for healthcare organization in the modern business environment.

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