Craig E. Johnson, Organizational Ethics, Third Edition
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Lecture Notes
Chapter 3
Ethical Decision making and Action
Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach (3rd ed.)
Emotion in Moral Decision Making
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•Traditional perspective: focus on reason and reject emotion
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•Contemporary perspective: emotions are central to ethical decision-
making
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•Evidence from brain damage
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•Evidence from neuroimaging
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•Social intuitionist model
Dual Process Approach
Both logic and emotions are important to making good choices
Emotions are most important in life/death, bodily/personal harm
and deeply held belief situations
Cognition more important when balancing competing claims or
when engaged in abstract reasoning
Craig E. Johnson, Organizational Ethics, Third Edition
Instructor Resource
Components of Ethical Behavior
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•Theorist: James Rest
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•Research question: “What must happen psychologically in order for
moral behavior to take place?”
