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Group Context, Social Identity, and Ethical Decision Making: A Preliminary Test

Ethics in Groups

ISBN: 978-0-76231-300-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-405-8

Publication date: 11 July 2006

Abstract

Researchers have proposed a variety of models to depict, explain, and understand ethical decision-making processes. Rest (1986) proposed a four-stage, individually oriented model, in which a person who makes a moral decision must (1) recognize the moral issue, (2) make a moral judgment, (3) establish moral intent, and (4) make moral decisions. Similarly, Ferrell, Gresham, and Fraedrich (1989) developed a five-stage model that included awareness, cognitions, evaluations, determination, and actions. Finally, Trevino (1986) proposed a slightly different model that begins with the recognition of an ethical dilemma and proceeds to a cognition stage in which individuals make moral judgments that further affect their ethical or unethical decisions (see Jones, 1991, for a review).

Citation

Zhong, C.-B., Ku, G., Lount, R.B. and Murnighan, J.K. (2006), "Group Context, Social Identity, and Ethical Decision Making: A Preliminary Test", Tenbrunsel, A.E. (Ed.) Ethics in Groups (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 149-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1534-0856(06)08008-X

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