The Impact of Task Information Feedback on Ethical Reasoning

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn W. Massey ◽  
Linda Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Information Feedback ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cognitive Decision ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates whether task information feedback (TIF) promotes 84 auditors' and accounting students' use of higher ethical reasoning, thereby increasing their tendency to consider the public interest in the resolution of ethical dilemmas. TIF is a type of feedback in which subjects are provided with guidance about the cognitive decision-making process they should use. In our experiment, subjects used higher ethical reasoning to resolve audit dilemmas after receiving TIF than they did before receiving TIF. Accordingly, our findings suggest that TIF is effective in promoting higher ethical reasoning and thus increasing the tendency of practicing and aspiring auditors to consider the public interest when resolving ethical dilemmas.

‘This Happens All the Time’: Organizations, Rationalization and Ethical Dilemmas in Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 985-1003
Author(s):  
Tracey L Adams
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Professional Misconduct ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

Given their positions of public trust, regulated professions are legally required to uphold ethical standards, and ensure that professional practice protects the public. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence that professionals do not always behave ethically. One proposed solution is greater organizational surveillance; however, research from a neo-Weberian perspective encourages scepticism about such arguments. Organizations may not only fail to stop professionals from violating ethical codes, but rationalizing organizations might actively encourage such violations in the name of efficiency. This article explores the impact of organizations and rationalization on professional misconduct through a mixed-methods study of professional engineers in Ontario, Canada. Findings suggest engineers are impacted by rationalization, and that those with less decision-making authority experience pressures discouraging practice in the public interest.

scholarly journals Penguatan Gender dalam Pengambilan Keputusan Birokrasi di Kabupaten Bone Bolango

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Robby Hunawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Reinforcement Model ◽  
The Impact

The long-term goal of this research is the birth of the process of drawing women's involvement in the bureaucratic decision-making process, and the gender reinforcement model in bureaucratic decision making in Bone Bolango District. The target of the research will be done by stages: 1) identify the problem of constraints faced; and 2) to formulate a model of gender reinforcement in bureaucratic decision making. The research method used is qualitative research with data collection techniques through: interview, documentation, and FGD. Further data collected will be analyzed data triangulation. The result of the research is the birth of a model of gender reinforcement in decision making bureaucracy. The impact of the study will provide answers on women's partisifasi in decision making. During this time the existence of women is very much ruled out. The presence of female figures in the public dimension brings new trends in the context of government. Women want to be treated proportionally. This tendency has implications for the inclusion of women to compete with men to become leaders.

scholarly journals Przezwyciężanie kryzysu w procesie integracji europejskiej poprzez zmiany regulacji dotyczących udziału obywateli UE w podejmowaniu i realizacji decyzji

2015 ◽  
pp. 64-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Witkowska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of citizen participation-enabling mechanisms in the EU decision-making process on the legitimacy of the Union. The inquiry measures and categorises participation in the EU, utilising the analytic instruments developed in existing theoretical approaches. The research problem is the evaluation of conditions created in the EU for active participation in the public life for their potential of overcoming the crisis in the European integration process. The aim of the study has been accomplished in two stages. First, the legislative process in the EU has been presented, with law-making and implementation phases distinguished. Second, the different kinds of participation in the EU have been categorised and their intensity described. The categorisation is adapted from the distinction made by W. Tegtmeier. The author is testing the hypothesis that the multitude of modes of engaging citizens in the decision making process in the EU confirms the Union’s legitimacy. She concludes that citizen participation in the decision-making at the EU level could potentially positively contribute to the process of overcoming the crisis of democracy in the EU.

scholarly journals Data-Related Ecosystems in Policy Making: The PoliVisu Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Giovanni Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Data Ownership ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe article explores the complexity of the ecosystems that develop around data supported policy making. This complexity, which can be traced back to the multiplicity of actors involved, the roles they assume in the different steps of the decision making process, and the nature of the relationships they establish, takes on new connotations following the rising use of data for public policies. In fact, issues related to data ownership and the ability to collect, manage, and translate data into useful information for policy makers require the involvement of several actors, generating ecosystems where co-creation strategies are confronted with the limits of action of the public administrations within broader social and decisional networks. Based on this background, the article aims to provide, through the analysis of the direct experiences conducted by the pilot cities involved in the PoliVisu project, an overview of the opportunities and challenges related to the impact of data in the evolution of decision making networks and ecosystems in the data shake era.

Comportamento dei soggetti e regolamentazione nella teoria della politica economica

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Giovanni Palmerio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Aggregate Demand ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Credit Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Models of economic policy are usually based on the «targets-tools» scheme. They concentrate on the tools which regulate aggregate demand such as fiscal policy, monetary and credit policy, exchange-rate policy. But they overlook the reactions of the agents of the economic system, and particularly of organized social groups, to economic policies; they overlook the decision-making process of government and of the public entities which put in practice economic policies; and they do not consider the supply factors.Analyzing these points, this article shows how the reactions of the agents can be embodied in an analytical model. It shows also how basic the analysis of the governmental decision-making process is to evaluate the efficiency and the impact of economic policies. Finally it shows how largely supply is determined by legal and administrative factors. In conclusion, regulation (or deregulation) is a very important instrumental variable which needs to be embodied into the models of economic policy.

9 Legitimacy and Governance Challenges

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnitcha Jonathan ◽  
Skovgaard Poulsen Lauge N ◽  
Waibel Michael
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Investment Treaty ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Investment Treaties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Investment Treaty Arbitration

The rapid growth of investment treaty arbitrations in often sensitive policy areas has focused public attention on the investment treaty regime. This chapter draws together several strands of the book to focus on two central debates about legitimacy and governance challenges facing the investment treaty regime. The first section considers the impact of investment treaties on national governance. It assesses criticisms that investment treaties unduly fetter democratic decision-making and discourage states from regulating in the public interest. The second section examines the legitimacy of investment treaty arbitration—the regime feature that has come under the closest scrutiny over the last decade. It assesses debates about transparency and consistency in investment treaty arbitration, its impact on the broader investment regime complex, the selection, identity, and alleged biases of arbitrators, as well as the lack of investor obligations.

scholarly journals Ethical dilemmas in psychiatry: When teams disagree

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Silva ◽  
Alex Till ◽  
Gwen Adshead
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Persuasion

SummaryMany ethical dilemmas in medicine are associated with highly unusual clinical situations and are an almost daily challenge for mental health teams. We describe the ethical issues that arose in relation to a significant difference of opinion between team members about using nasogastric clozapine in the treatment of a severely ill patient. We discuss how conflicting emotions and perspectives within teams acquire ethical significance and how negotiation and reflection are essential for good-quality ethical reasoning to take place.Learning Objectives• Understand the different effects and importance of reasoning and emotions in moral decision-making• Use a clinical scenario involving a difficult and controversial procedure to explore the impact of social persuasion in moral decision-making• Consider the effects of heuristics against rational thinking

Freedom of Expression versus Privacy and the Right to Reputation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Voorhoof
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right Of Privacy ◽  
The One ◽  
Grand Chamber ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The normative perspective of this chapter is how to guarantee respect for the fundamental values of freedom of expression and journalistic reporting on matters of public interest in cases where a (public) person claims protection of his or her right to reputation. First it explains why there is an increasing number and expanding potential of conflicts between the right to freedom of expression and media freedom (Article 10 ECHR), on the one hand, and the right of privacy and the right to protection of reputation (Article 8 ECHR), on the other. In addressing and analysing the European Court’s balancing approach in this domain, the characteristics and the impact of the seminal 2012 Grand Chamber judgment in Axel Springer AG v. Germany (no. 1) are identified and explained. On the basis of the analysis of the Court’s subsequent jurisprudence in defamation cases it evaluates whether this case law preserves the public watchdog-function of media, investigative journalism and NGOs reporting on matters of public interest, but tarnishing the reputation of public figures.

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