The character lens: A person-centered perspective on moral recognition and ethical decision-making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik G Helzer ◽  
Taya R. Cohen ◽  
Yeonjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Identity Centrality ◽  
Guilt Proneness ◽  
The Way

We introduce the character lens perspective to account for stable patterns in the way that individuals make sense of and construct the ethical choices and situations they face. We propose that the way that individuals make sense of their present experience is an enduring feature of their broader moral character, and that differences between people in ethical decision-making are traceable to upstream differences in the way that people disambiguate and give meaning to their present context. In three studies, we found that individuals with higher standing on moral character (operationalized as a combination of Honesty-Humility, Guilt Proneness, and Moral Identity Centrality) tended to construe their present context in more moral or ethical terms, and this difference in moral recognition accounted for differences in the ethical choices they made. Moreover, individuals with higher levels of moral character maintained high levels of moral recognition even as pressure to ignore moral considerations increased. Accordingly, this work unifies research on moral character, moral recognition, sensemaking, and judgment and decision-making into a person-centered account of ethical decision-making, highlighting the way decision-makers actively and directly shape the choice contexts to which they must respond.

scholarly journals The role of moral identity in auditor’s ethical decision making

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Nawfel Arrami ◽  
Yang QingXiang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Moderator Variable ◽  
Identity Centrality ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to test and provide empirical evidence of the moderated mediating role that plays moral identity in explaining auditor’s ethical decision making based on Jones' model of moral intensity. Therefore, this research proposes a moderated mediation model where moral identity accessibility mediates the relationship between perceived moral intensity and auditors’ moral judgment. Moreover, Moral identity centrality is tested as a moderator variable for this socio-cognitive model. This study used random sampling methods for external senior auditors operating in audit firms in Morocco. Data obtained by 125 respondents and processed with SmartPLS. The results show that the impact of an auditor’s perceived moral intensity on his moral judgment is fully mediated by moral identity accessibility and moderated by moral identity centrality. Auditor’s moral intensity perception seems to trigger the access to moral identity which in turn affects positively the moral judgment based on how central is moral identity to the individual.

Imagination, Fantasy, Wishful Thinking and Truth: Life is translation and we are all lost in it. (Clifford Geertz)

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne B. Ciulla
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Conceptual Schemes ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Way

In “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-Making,” Patricia H. Werhane observes that people and institutions sometimes do unethical things because they have a narrow perspective on their situation and little in the way of moral imagination. She defines moral imagination as “an ability to imaginatively discern various possibilities for acting in a given situation and to envision the potential help and harm that are likely to result from a given action.” Werhane’s paper focuses on how the conceptual schemes of people and organizations hinder the exercise of moral imagination. She develops two key concepts for understanding moral imagination, memory or moral amnesia and empathy. Both of these give us a better picture of how imagination bridges the gap between moral principles and actions.

scholarly journals Culture and Organizational Climate: Nurses’ Insights Into Their Relationship With Physicians

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cruise Malloy ◽  
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos ◽  
Elizabeth Fahey McCarthy ◽  
Robin J Evans ◽  
Dwight H Zakus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Safety And Stability ◽  
The Way

Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one’s location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one’s professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, and stability. In this four-nation (Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Korea) qualitative study of 42 nurses, we explored their perception of how ethical decisions are made, the nurses’ hospital role, and the extent to which their voices were heard. These nurses suggested that their voices were silenced (often voluntarily) or were not expressed in terms of ethical decision making. Finally, they perceived that their approach to ethical decision making differed from physicians.

scholarly journals Pemahaman Identitas Moral dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Pengambilan Keputusan Etis bagi Para Peserta Didik Pendidikan Agama Kristen

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Amos Winarto Oei
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Education Class ◽  
Theory And Experiment

ABSTRACT: This article examines whether appealing to learners moral identity makes a significant contribution to their ethical decision making. Moral identity theory and experiment in moral psychology will be used as a source to be reckoned with in improving ethical decision making. This is to avoid excessive emphasis on emotions, environment and knowledge of the rules which did have an impact on one's ethical decision making. The approach used in this article is the quantitative approach. The result showed that the understanding of moral identity can act as an element to boost the ability of ethical decision making. This suggests that religious education which appeals to the learners moral identity can help them to make better ethical decision when complementing the emotional, the environment and the rule-based knowledge approaches. Thus, it is expected that the learners can have good moral character in the future. This moral identity appeal should be widely adopted as a common practice in religious education class. KEYWORDS: moral identity, ethical decision, understanding, cognitive development, religious education.

scholarly journals Moral Music Management: Ethical Decision-Making After Avicii

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo Chaparro ◽  
George Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethical Choices

Abstract Following the tragic suicide of Avicii (Tim Bergling) in 2018, many in the popular media, and reportedly the musician’s own family, were seen to question the ethics of decisions taken by his manager (Williams, 2018; Ralston, 2018). By applying a moral intensity test (Jones, 1991) in the form of a scenario-based questionnaire to six music managers based in London (UK), this article interrogates how and why music managers make the moral and ethical choices they do. The findings suggest that music managers are aware of ethical challenges emanating from their work, but that the relatively informal, loosely regulated nature of the music workplace complicates the negotiation of ethical and moral tensions. However, music managers’ close awareness of the ‘social consensus’ and ‘proximity’ of moral intensity suggests that cultural (as opposed to regulatory) change can help guide and inform managerial decision-making.

Beyond Relativism to Ethical Decision Making

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-239
Author(s):  
Keith D. Walker ◽  
J. Kent Donlevy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Ethical Relativism ◽  
Educational Decision ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Postmodern Ethics

This article examines the ethical conundrum of educational decision makers when faced with a plethora of conflicting value-based decisions. It offers an analysis of a well-known fable as the foil to demonstrate the problematic nature of ethical relativism and postmodern ethics in resolving that conundrum while advocating the use of five core commitments that enable reasonable, consistent, and justifiable warrants for ethical choices.

To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Evidence on Ethical Decision-Making from a Study of Arab Youth

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvert W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Arab Students

How do young people make judgments about what is right and ethical? The challenge of cultivating ethical citizens is one that every community faces, yet it has received only limited research attention, with almost no work on this subject having been done in the Arab world. This paper summarizes much of what we know about how youth engage in ethical decision- making, with an emphasis on educational settings in which students are confronted with the question of whether to cheat or not. Its broader aim is to begin a more systematic and evidence- based discussion of the factors that influence ethical decision-making in the Middle East, which may have important implications not only for education but also for political and economic development. The paper first provides an overview of research on dishonesty, particularly cheating in schools and the question of whether cheating is ever justified. Second, it provides a conceptual outline of strategies that may be used to combat cheating and other forms of unethical behavior. The classification of strategies presented is based on differing (but not mutually exclusive) perspectives on the reasons for dishonesty in any given situation, including perspectives that emphasize external costs and benefits, social norms, self-awareness, and self-deception. Third, the paper summarizes findings from an original study of the attitudes and ethical choices of a sample of Arab students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Leadership: A Discussion About Ethics

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Rost
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Liberal Philosophy ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract:In this article, the author lists three problems that make any serious discussion about the ethics of leadership a very difficult undertaking. He then proposes a new, postindustrial paradigm of leadership. Using that understanding of leadership, two different sets of ethical analyses of leadership are possible: (1) those concerned with the process of leadership and (2) those concerned with the content of leadership (the changes proposed by the leaders and collaborators). In the end, the author suggests that the industrial paradigm of ethics (the 18th century liberal philosophy) is inadequate to deal with the ethical decision making that leaders and collaborators must do in the 21st century. Thus, a postindustrial paradigm of ethics must be developed to enable leaders and collaborators to make the tough ethical choices that will be demanded in the new millennium.

Business Forums Pave the Way to Ethical Decision Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 11952
Author(s):  
Joan M. Blewitt ◽  
Jack Ryan ◽  
JC Blewitt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
The Way
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