Managerial decision-making on moral issues and the effects of teaching ethics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 207-223

  Awasthi, Vidya N ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Framing; Judgment and decision making; Managerial decisions; Schema; Teaching ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349130260     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9328-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (43)

1. Adams G. B., Balfour D. L. (1998) Unmasking Administrative Evils. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications
2. Arbuckle J. L., Wothke W. (1999) Amos 4.0 User's Guide. Chicago, IL, SPSS Inc
3. Bentler, P. M. and D. G. Bonnet: 1980, 'Significance Tests and Goodness of Fit in the Analysis of Covariance Structures', Psychological Bulletin 88, 588-606.
4. Bransford J. D., Johnson M. K. (1973) Considerations of Some Problems of Comprehension. In: Chase W. G. (ed) Visual Information Processing. New York, Academic Press
5. Brown M. W., Cudeck R. (1989) Simple Sample Cross-validation Indices for Covariance Structures. Multivariate Behavioral Research 24: 445-455
6. Daft R. (2000) Management. New York, NY, Dryden Press
7. Dienhart J. (2000) Business, Institutions, and Ethics. New York, Oxford University Press
8. Dienhart, J.: 2005, Syllabus for MBA512, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Winter Quarter 2005, Seattle University
9. Duska R. (1991) What's the Point of a Business Ethics Course? Business Ethics Quarterly 1(4): 335-354
10. Fiske S. T., Taylor S. E. (1984) Social Cognition. New York, Random House
11. Handy C. (1994) The Age of Paradox. Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press
12. Hellriegel D., Slocum J. W. Jr. (1986) Management. Cincinnati, OH, South-Western College Publishing
13. Jackall R. (1988) Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. New York, NY, Oxford University Press
14. Jensen M., Meckling W. (1976) Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure. Journal of Financial Economics 3: 305-360
15. Jensen M., Meckling W. (1992) Specific and General Knowledge and Organizational Structure. In: Werin L. Wijkander H (eds)Contract Economics, Oxford, Blackwell
16. Jones, T.: 1991, 'Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue-Contingent Model', Academy of Management Review 16(2), 366-395.
17. Kahneman D. (2003) A Perspective on Judgment and Choice. American Psychologist 58(9): 697-720
18. Keeny, R.: 1994, 'Creativity in Decision-Making with Value-Focused Thinking', Sloan Management Review, Summer, 33-41
19. Marnburg, E.: 2003, 'Educational Impacts on Academic Business Practitioner's Moral Reasoning and Behavior: Effects of Short Courses in Ethics or Philosophy', Business Ethics: A European Review, 12, 403-413
20. Mayer, P.: 1995, 'A Surprisingly Simple Way to Make Better Decisions', Executive Female, March-April, 13-14
21. McDonald, M.: 2001, A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making, Version 6.0, Ethics Shareware (Jan. '01), http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/people/mcdonald/ decisions.htm
22. McNeil, B. J. et al.: 1982, 'On the Elicitation of Preferences for Alternative Therapies', New England Journal of Medicine, 306, 1259-1262
23. O'Fallon M., Butterfield K. (2005) A Review of the Empirical Decision-Making Literature: 1996-2003. Journal of Business Ethics 59: 375-413
24. Paolillo J. G. P., Vitell S. J. (2002) An Empirical Investigation of Influence of Selected Personal, Organizational, and Moral Intensity Factors on Ethical Decision Making. Journal of Business Ethics 35(1): 65-74
25. Rest J. (1986) Moral Development: Advances in Research and Theory. New York, Praeger
26. Rest J., Narvaez D., Bebeau M., Thoma S. (1999) A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach: The DIT and Schema Theory. Educational Psychology Review 11(4): 291-324
27. Rummelhart D. E. (1977) Introduction to Human Information Processing. New York, Wiley
28. Simon H. A., Hayes J. R. (1976) Understanding Process: Problem Isomorphs. Cognitive Psychology 8: 165-190
29. Sims R., Sims S. (1991) Increasing Applied Business Ethics Courses in Business School Curricula. Journal of Business Ethics 10(3): 211-219
30. Singer M. S. (1996) The Role of Moral Intensity and Fairness Perception in Judgments of Ethicality: A Comparison of Managerial Professionals and the General Public. Journal of Business Ethics 15(4): 469-474
31. Singhapakdi A., Rao C. P., Vitell S. J. (1996) Ethical Decision Making: An Investigation of Services Marketing Professionals. Journal of Business Ethic 15(6): 635-644
32. Singhapakdi, A., S. J. Vitell and G. R. Franke: 1999, Antecedents, Consequences, and Mediating Effects of Perceive Moral Intensity and Personal Moral Philosophies, The Journal of Academy of Marketing Science 27(1), 19-35
33. Taylor, S. E. and J. Crocker: 1981, 'Schematic Bases of Social Processing', in E. T.Higgins, C. P.Herman, and M. P. Zanna (eds.), Social Cognition: The Ontario Symposium, Vol 1. (Earlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), pp. 89-134.
34. Trevino L. (1986) Ethical Decision-making in Organizations: A Person-Situation Interactionist Model. Academy of Management Review 11(3): 601-617
35. Tversky A., Kahneman D. (1986) Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions. Journal of Business 59 :S251-S278
36. Tversky, A. and D. Kahneman: 1992, 'Advances in Prospect Theory: Cumulative Representation of Uncertainty', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 5, 297-323.
37. Velasquez, M. G.: 2006, Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ).
38. Velasquez, M. G., C. Andre, T. Shanks and M. J. Meyer: 2005, "A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making". Retrieved August 14, 2005 from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/framework.html
39. Wagoner, R.: 2005, 'Text of GM Address', Wall Street Journal, June 7
40. Weber J. (1996) Influences Upon Managerial Decision Making: Nature of the Harm and Magnitude of Consequences. Human Relations, 49(1): 1-22
41. Yates J. F. (1990) Judgment and Decision-making. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall
42. Young J. (2005) Changing Our Questions: Reflections on the Corporate Scandals. Accounting and the Public Interest 5: 1-13
43. Zimmerman J. (2006) Accounting for Decision Making and Control. New York, McGraw-Hill Irwin