Does Lower-Stage Ethical Reasoning Emerge in More Familiar Contexts?  

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Snell, Robin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Business Ethics vol. 14 no. 12 (Dec. 1995), page 959-976.
Topik: Ethical Reasoning; Lower Stage; Family Context

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: BB27.24 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Four real-life dilemma cases collected from Hong Kong managers were included, along with two other cases previously used by Weber (1991), in an instrument designed to assess ethical reasoning capacity. This was completed by 86 part-time post-graduate students, all of whom were managers with at least four years working experience. Respondents' measured ethical reasoning capacity appeared to be at least as high as comparable samples in the U.S.A. The mean ethical reasoning stage varied between cases. Contrary to expectations, the unfamiliarity per se of a case did not affect ethical reasoning, which instead tended toward higher measured stages when issues of public hazard or environmental pollution were introduced, and toward lower measured stages where personal or family finances were at stake. Two methodological points were made signalling the need for caution in research of this kind. First, because of reservations about the adequacy of the standard Kohlbergian model of ethical reasoning development, a scoring guide based on a revised Kohlbergian model of ethical reasoning was used toa nalyze the replies, rendering comparisons with other samples inexact. Second, the possible phenomenon of quasi Stage Five reasoning renders problematic the identification of "true" Stage Five ethical reasoning.

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