The character lens: Moral character promotes ethical decision-making through moral awareness

Ethics in business ethics and law in business law are not as ambiguous, rhetorical, and esoteric as practitioners portray. Excuses as such have subconsciously become a habitus platinum safeguard against all wrongdoing. The usage of the habitus platinum safeguard is to defuse the unethical and malpractice of practitioners due to the ambiguous, rhetorical, and esoteric factors of and related to ethics in business ethics and law in business law. The ethical decision-making process, from ethics to law, involves five basic steps: moral awareness, moral judgment, ethical behavior, ethical behavior theorizing, and (business) law.

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Teaching Behavioral Ethics: Overcoming the Key Impediments to Ethical Behavior

Journal of Management Education ◽

10.1177/1052562917701501 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 497-513 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mark S. Schwartz

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Ethical Behavior ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Cognitive Biases ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Moral Judgments ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Behavioral Ethics

To better understand the ethical decision-making process and why individuals fail to act ethically, the aim of this article is to explore what are seen as the key impediments to ethical behavior and their pedagogical implications. Using the ethical decision-making process proposed by Rest as an overarching framework, the article examines the following barriers to ethical decision making: improper framing, which can preclude moral awareness; cognitive biases and psychological tendencies, which can hinder reaching proper moral judgments; and moral rationalizations, which can obstruct moral judgments from being translated into moral intentions or ethical behavior. Next, pedagogical exercises and tools for teaching behavioral ethics and ethical decision making are provided. The article concludes with its implications.

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: On Understanding Ethical Behavior and Decision Making: A Behavioral Ethics Approach

Business Ethics Quarterly ◽

10.5840/beq20102012 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

David De Cremer ◽

David M. Mayer ◽

Marshall Schminke

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Ethical Behavior ◽

Unethical Behavior ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Special Issue ◽

Behavioral Ethics ◽

Scientific Approach ◽

Social Scientific

AbstractBehavioral ethics is an emerging field that takes an empirical, social scientific approach to the study of business ethics. In this special issue, we include six articles that fall within the domain of behavioral ethics and that focus on three themes—moral awareness, ethical decision making, and reactions to unethical behavior. Each of the articles sheds additional light on the specific issues addressed. However, we hope this special issue will have an impact beyond that of the new insights offered in these articles, by stimulating even more research in this burgeoning field.

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The Evolution of Business Ethics to Business Law

Economic Behavior, Game Theory, and Technology in Emerging Markets - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4745-9.ch007 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 109-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ben Tran

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Business Ethics ◽

Moral Judgment ◽

Ethical Behavior ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Business Law

Ethics in business ethics and law in business law are not as ambiguous, rhetorical, and esoteric as practitioners portray. Excuses as such have subconsciously become a habitus platinum safeguard against all wrongdoing. The usage of the habitus platinum safeguard is to defuse the unethical and malpractice of practitioners due to the ambiguous, rhetorical, and esoteric factors of and related to ethics in business ethics and law in business law. The ethical decision-making process, from ethics to law, involves five basic steps: moral awareness, moral judgment, ethical behavior, ethical behavior theorizing, and (business) law.

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Analogical Encoding Fosters Ethical Decision Making Because Improved Knowledge of Ethical Principles Increases Moral Awareness

Journal of Business Ethics ◽

10.1007/s10551-020-04457-w ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jihyeon Kim ◽

Jeffrey Loewenstein

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Ethical Principles ◽

Moral Awareness

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PERAN INTENSITAS MORAL DALAM PROSES PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN ETIS: KAJIAN LINTAS BUDAYA

Jurnal Psikologi TALENTA ◽

10.26858/talenta.v4i1.6441 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Vemita - Sinantia

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Planned Behavior ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Moral Intensity ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Behavior Theory ◽

Planned Behavior Theory ◽

Individual Ability ◽

The Right

This cross cultural study has tried to correlate the influence of moral intensity on ethical decision making, for instance on the stage of moral awareness. The phenomenon is interesting to investigate more because there is a difference between individualism culture and collectivism culture in ethical decision making, especially in the correlation of moral intensity components that influence ethical decision making process (Heyler, Armenakis, Walker, & Collier, 2016; McMahon & Harvey, 2007; Saat, Yusoff, & Panatik, 2014; Singh, Vitell, Al-Khatib, & Clark, 2007). Planned behavior theory stated that an individu make a decision based on individual ability to control his or her decision, this theory has been applied in individualism culture (Ajzen, 1991). In other hand, collectivism culture has a different finding with planned behavior theory. An individu in collectivism culture tend to make a decision ethically based on social group control (Ashkanasy, Windsor, & Trevino, 2006; Saat et al., 2014). The different findings on both culture is interesting to discuss more, in order to understand how Indonesian employee as a collectivism culture, and to determine the right ethical training approach for them.

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

10.31234/osf.io/x48w3 ◽

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.

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Auditor ethics: do experience and gender influence auditors’ moral awareness?

Managerial Auditing Journal ◽

10.1108/maj-07-2020-2745 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Nieves Carrera ◽

Berend Van Der Kolk

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Work Experience ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Moral Dilemmas ◽

Future Research ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Content Type ◽

And Gender ◽

General Business

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how experience and gender relate to the auditors’ moral awareness. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses are informed by a neurocognitive approach to ethical decision-making and tested using survey data from 191 auditors of a Big Four audit firm in The Netherlands. Findings The main findings indicate that more experienced auditors (i.e. those with more years of work experience, a higher rank and a higher age) show higher levels of moral awareness. This positive relationship is stronger for morally questionable situations related to accounting and auditing, compared to general business moral dilemmas. In addition, the results support the expectation that on average, female auditors have higher moral awareness than their male counterparts. Originality/value To the knowledge of the authors, this is the first study that considers a neurocognitive approach to inform hypotheses about the antecedents of auditors’ moral awareness. The findings suggest that the involvement of experienced auditors in ethical decision-making processes may be beneficial given their enhanced ability to identify ethically disputable situations as such. Furthermore, increasing the number of women in senior positions may positively affect ethical decision-making in audit firms. Finally, this paper presents directions for future research.

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Ethical Decision Making in International Business: A Study of Challenge in Teaching to Future Global Talents

Business and Management Studies ◽

10.11114/bms.v2i2.1469 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Rebecca Chunghee Kim

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

International Business ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Moral Awareness ◽

Ethical Decisions ◽

Four Component Model ◽

Broad Outline ◽

Actual Decision

The importance of ethical decision-making in international business has never been more apparent than in recent years. However, discussion concerning its teaching to future global talents who will be at this stage soon is scant and under-developed. Adapting Rest’s (1986) four-component model, the study attempts to sketch a broad outline of ethical decision-making by university students when they face an ethical dilemma. The imaginary story, which the author intentionally designs to analyze ethical decision-making through covering real-world ethical issues in an international market, is used as the main methodological tool. Participants acknowledge ‘ideal’ ethical decisions according to their own discretion, but their ‘actual’ decision is different due to the intention (motivation) of individuals as to whether they make ethical decisions. This study demonstrates significant gaps in teaching business ethics and suggests a shift of the teaching focus from enlightenment of moral awareness/judgment to stimulating and motivating to initiate ethical decisions and actions.

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