Title: Our Journey
1Our Journey
- FramingThe elusive nature of an important
behaviour. - Theory of the self
- Ethical behaviour as a part of a decision making
process - Individual vs. situational variables
- Putting it all together
2Moral behaviour a mind map
3What influences peoples behaviour?
Personal variables
)Moral) Behaviour
Situational variables
4Decision Making process
An issue-contingent model of ethical decision
making in organizations / Adapted from Jones 1991
5Self-regulation and rationalization
(Moral) Behavior
Mood Positive/Negative
Later behaviour
Bandura 1999
6Rationalizations (Bandura 1999)
- Moral justification (It would have hurt her more
if I told the truth) - Euphemistic labelling (I am flexible with the
truth) - Advantageous comparison (This little lie is
better than people who steal from their boss) - Displacement of responsibility (He pushed me into
a corner I had to lie) - Diffusion of responsibility (We all decided
together that this was the right thing to do) - Disregard or distortion of consequences (A little
lie never hurt anybody) - Dehumanization (Hes a worm he doesnt deserve
the truth) - Attribution of blame (He left me no choice, I had
to lie)
7Putting it all together an example
Moral Disengagement
Moral Identity
Competitiveness
Affect Positive/Negative
Moral Behavior
Support for negative behaviour
8Ethics It is the domain of obedience to the
unenforceable. That obedience is the obedience of
a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey.
He is the forcer of the law upon himself
- Lord Moulton 1924 (in Kidder 2003)
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