13 Ethical Decision Making: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

By Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristin Smith-Crowe. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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WHY EMPLOYEES DO BAD THINGS: MORAL DISENGAGEMENT AND UNETHICAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (2012, background): “Given consistent calls to improve measurement in the field of behavioral ethics (Mayer et al., 2009; Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008; Treviño et al., 2006), we believe this contribution warrants special note.”
In Search of Phronesis: Leadership and the Art of Judgment (2014, background): “Decision frames “represent the dominant characteristics of the situational construal as perceived by the decision maker” (Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008: 564).”
A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management's bottom‐line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors (2019, methodology): “…has noted the importance of decision frames to (un)ethical conduct (Kouchaki, Smith-Crowe, Brief, & Sousa, 2013; Tenbrunsel & Messick, 1999; Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008), empirical research has not adequately considered that a decision frame can spawn a range of cognitions and behaviors…”
Moral character: What it is and what it does (2014, background): “…has been the subject of much debate and definitional ambiguity within the organizational behavior literature (Bazerman & Gino, 2012; Brief, 2012; Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008), there is now growing consensus among psychologists that what is right versus wrong should be conceptualized as…”
Cheating more when the spoils are split (2011, background): “Researchers have invested considerable effort into understanding what leads people to behave unethically in the workplace (for reviews, see O’Fallon & Butterfield, 2005; Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008; Treviño, Weaver, & Reynolds, 2006).”
Paying Attention to Mindfulness and Its Effects on Task Performance in the Workplace (2011, background): “In other words, if individuals do not perceive that a problem carries ethical implications or consequences, they are more likely to use amoral criteria to govern their behavior (Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008).”
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction (2012, background): “Morality is difficult to define precisely in terms of specific content (see Bauman & Skitka, 2009; Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008), but many would agree that it generally involves standards for how people ought to treat each other that take into account human welfare, rights, and justice (Turiel,…”
When Employees Do Bad Things for Good Reasons: Examining Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors (2011, methodology): “We rely on both emotional and cognitive consequences for our model because research suggests that both processes play a role in ethical judgment and behavior (Greene et al. 2001, 2008; Tenbrunsel and Smith-Crowe 2008).”
Organizational justice: New insights from behavioural ethics (2013, unknown): “In their review of the literature on ethical decision making, Tenbrunsel and Smith-Crowe (2008) lament the lack of agreement on what is and is not ‘ethical’ or ‘moral’.”
Unethical use of wildlife in tourism: what's the problem, who is responsible, and what can be done? (2017, background): “In such cases they cannot be making a “moral decision” (sensu Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008), e.g. tourists who are simply ignorant of the potential for ethical problems when attending WTAs.”
Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes (2013, background): “Consistent with our reasoning regarding a business decision frame, other researchers too have linked it with unethical behavior (e.g., Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008).”
The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Are Not as Ethical as We Think We Are (2010, unknown): “Factors found to influence moral awareness is a good start for such research, including ethical experience, orientation, issue intensity, and ethical culture (Tenbrunsel & Smith-Crowe, 2008; Trevino, Weaver, & Reynolds, 2006).”