The Impact of Moral Intensity on Decision Making in a Business Context

By B. Frey. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Linking perceived management support with employees’ readiness for change: the mediating role of psychological capital (2017, background): “The response rate was low, although not atypical of web-based surveys in organizational contexts (Frey, 2000; Klassen & Jacobs, 2001).”
Ethical Decision Making in Fair Trade Companies (2011, unknown): “Various descriptive models of ethical decisionmaking have been developed in business ethics, the most widely cited probably being those by Treviño (1986) and Jones (1991) from the management literature, and those by Hunt and Vitell (1986) and Ferrell and Gresham (1985) from the marketing literature.”
Opportunistic customer claiming during service recovery (2010, background): “…" was found to be related to the level of acceptance of unethical behavior (Muncy and Vitell 1992), and moral intensity theory (Jones 1991) suggests that the magnitude of the consequences is one of the most important dimensions of moral intensity in influencing ethical decisionmaking (Frey 2000).”
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “Thus, ethical conduct is regulated largely through “anticipatory self-sanctions” that keep behavior in line with personal standards and help the individual avoid unethical behavior that would lead to self-censure (Bandura, 1999).”
The Impact of Moral Intensity and Desire for Control on Scaling Decisions in Social Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Moral intensity is a prominent ethical construct that has been used to examine decision making in many business-related disciplines, (e.g., Singhapakdi et al. 1996; Frey 2000) and has received strong empirical support (Loe et al.”
An Analysis of the Factor Structure of Jones’ Moral Intensity Construct (2006, background): “(1996) findings, Frey (2000) developed a 12-item scale to measure perceived moral intensity, with 2 questions designed to assess the perceived level of each of the six moral intensity characteristics.”
Investigating the Effects of Moral Disengagement and Participation on Unethical Work Behavior (2011, background): “With respect to situational influences, researchers have suggested that individuals apply standards differently depending on the characteristics, or moral intensity, of the issue (e.g., Frey 2000; Jones 1991; May and Pauli 2002; Reynolds 2006; Singhapakdi et al. 1996).”
The Role of Moral Intensity in Ethical Decision Making (2002, background): “Moral Intensity and Moral Recognition Five of the 16 studies addressed the relation of moral intensity dimensions to moral recognition (Davis, Johnson, & Ohmer, 1998; Dukerich, Waller, George, & Huber, 2000; Frey, 2000; Marshall & Dewe, 1997; Singhapakdi, Vitell, & Kraft, 1996).”
Exploring the Impact of Job Insecurity on Employees’ Unethical Behavior (2016, background): “…extension to the business ethics literature because past research has failed to assess the psychological implications of job insecurity despite research suggesting that individuals apply moral standards differently depending on the characteristics of the situation (Frey, 2000 ; Jones, 1991 ).”
The Moral Intensity of Reduced Audit Quality Acts (2008, background): “increases, the perceived total “ethical heat” of the issue increases ( Frey 2000 ).”