2011
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1107-3
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Moral Intensity, Issue Importance, and Ethical Reasoning in Operations Situations

Abstract: Previous work suggests that moral intensity and the perceived importance of an ethical issue can influence individual ethical decision making. However, prior research has not explored how the various dimensions of moral intensity might differentially affect PIE, or how moral intensity might function together with (or in the presence of) PIE to influence ethical decision making. In addition, prior work has also not adequately investigated how the operational context of an organization, which may embody conditio… Show more

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“…It may not actually make sense to see an activity as unethical but then to disagree that it raises an ethical issue, or to regard it as relatively unimportant. Observed strong relationships perhaps seem less meaningful than generally presumed (e.g., Barnett, 2001, r = -.36, -.56;Bateman et al, in press, r = .26, intentions;Pan and Sparks, 2012, r = .25 (five studies); Rottig et al, 2011, r = -.27, -.51, -.46;Singhapakdi, 1999, r = -.42, -.33, -.67, intentions;Singhapakdi, Vitell, and Franke, 1999, intentions;Valentine and Hollingsworth, 2012 Schepers (2003, p. 347) drew conclusions about "perception of an ethical problem", but the survey items in both studies assessed judgments, and no separate "perceptions" measure was used.…”
Section: Ethical Issue Recognition and Importancementioning
confidence: 98%
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“…It may not actually make sense to see an activity as unethical but then to disagree that it raises an ethical issue, or to regard it as relatively unimportant. Observed strong relationships perhaps seem less meaningful than generally presumed (e.g., Barnett, 2001, r = -.36, -.56;Bateman et al, in press, r = .26, intentions;Pan and Sparks, 2012, r = .25 (five studies); Rottig et al, 2011, r = -.27, -.51, -.46;Singhapakdi, 1999, r = -.42, -.33, -.67, intentions;Singhapakdi, Vitell, and Franke, 1999, intentions;Valentine and Hollingsworth, 2012 Schepers (2003, p. 347) drew conclusions about "perception of an ethical problem", but the survey items in both studies assessed judgments, and no separate "perceptions" measure was used.…”
Section: Ethical Issue Recognition and Importancementioning
confidence: 98%
“…These have included "whistle blowing" where respondents evaluate the appropriateness of a vignette protagonist disclosing others' questionable activities (e.g., Ayers and Kaplan, 2005;Barnett et al, 1994, Vignette 19;Barnett et al, 1996;Chiu, 2003;Chiu and Erdener, 2003;Hansen, 1992, Vignettes 2 and 3;Jung, 2009, Vignette 3;Radtke, 2000;Zhang et al, 2009a,b), laying off an employee (e.g., Cohen et al, 1998, Vignette 5;Shawver and Sennetti, 2009;Valentine and Hollingsworth, 2012), paying for inside information (e.g., Valentine and Rittenburg, 1994), bribery (e.g., , software piracy (e.g., Wagner and Sanders, 2001), and behavior in the face of threats or pressure from superiors or clients (e.g., managers explicitly ordering vignette protagonists to engage in bribery and price-fixing, Smith et al, 2007; see also Barnett et al, 1994, Vignettes 3 and 18;Cohen et al, 1998, Vignette 4;Cruz, Shafer, and Strauser, 2000;Flory et al, 1992;Loo, 2004;Marques and AzevedoPereira, 2009, Vignettes 1 and 5;Patel, 1993, Vignettes 1 and 2;Shawver and Sennetti, 2009). Some vignettes involve activities that create no apparent harms of any kind and thus seem not to be ethically questionable at all, such as consumers bringing their own shopping bags to stores (Chan et al, 2008), customers applying for credit cards but rarely using them (Ding et al, 2009), refunding money to customers (Dornoff and Tankersley, 1975), extending credit or loans that violate only the lenders' "normal (internal) lending criteria" (e.g., Flory et al, 1992;Cohen et al, 1998, Vignette 2;Shawver and Sennetti, 2009), and hiring Hispanic persons for a Mexican restaurant (Schepers, 2003).…”
Section: Ethical Judgments 28mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…O modelo multidimensional de intensidade moral desenvolvido por Jones (1991) integra seis dimensões da intensidade moral suscetíveis de influenciar qualquer uma das etapas da tomada de decisão ética de Rest (1986) Embora alguns estudos (Barnett & Valentine, 2004;May & Pauli, 2002) não mostrem relação significativa, a pesquisa em geral (McMahon & Harvey, 2007;Valentine & Hollingworth, 2012) evidencia uma relação significativa e positiva entre as dimensões da intensidade moral (Jones, 1991) e as etapas da tomada de decisão ética de Rest (1986). Outros investigadores, tais como Sweeney e Costello (2009), encontraram resultados consistentes com os de Jones (1991) ao testar as relações entre os dois modelos, nomeadamente a existência de relação entre a intensidade moral (idem) e a identificação de um dilema ético, designadamente no que se refere ao consenso social (Barnett, 2001), a magnitude das consequências e a probabilidade do efeito (Singhapakdi, Vitell & Franke, 1999).…”
Section: Intensidade Moralunclassified
“…[94] De forma global, a intensidade moral relaciona-se significativamente com a tomada de decisão ética dos participantes. Este resultado é consistente com o modelo de intensidade moral de Jones (1991) e com outros estudos empíricos (Barnett, 2001;Sweeney & Costello, 2009;Valentine & Hollingworth, 2012). Em particular, foi observada uma relação significativa entre a identificação ética e julgamento ético e também entre o julgamento ético e a intenção ética.…”
Section: Conclusõesunclassified
“…Little firm guidance is available in the literature. McMahon and Harvey (2007) recommended aggregation as a general rule, but many studies have not followed this advice (e.g., Barnett et al, 1994;Valentine and Hollingsworth, 2012). Separate analyses for each vignette seem not to be excessive, perhaps, when two vignettes are used, but certainly have the potential to consume valuable journal space when analyses relevant to three (Davis et al, 2001, Tables 4, 7, and 8;Vitell, Bakir, Paolillo, Hidalgo, Al-Khatib and Rawwas, 2003, Tables 2-9), six (Cohen et al, 1993, Tables 4-7), or twenty-six separate vignettes are presented (Barnett et al, 1994, Tables 1, 3, and 4).…”
Section: Aggregated or Disaggregated Datamentioning
confidence: 99%