The Role of Moral Intensity in Ethical Decision Making

By Douglas R. May, Kevin P. Pauli. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions, Information Systems and Management

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The Role of Individual Variables, Organizational Variables and Moral Intensity Dimensions in Libyan Management Accountants’ Ethical Decision Making (2016, methodology): “As in the case of much previous research (Leitsch 2006; May and Pauli 2002; McMahon and Harvey 2006; O’Leary and Stewart 2007; Sweeney and Costello 2009; Valentine and Hollingworth 2012; Valentine et al. 2013; Yang and Wu 2009), single-item scales were used to measure the three stages of ethical dec”
A Qualitative Investigation of Perceived Executive Ethical Leadership: Perceptions from Inside and Outside the Executive Suite (2003, background): “…focus on ethical awareness is important given that awareness and recognition of ethical issues is acknowledged to be a key first step in the ethical decision-making process and a step that is receiving increasing research attention (e.g. Butterfield et al., 2000; Jones, 1991; May & Pauli, 2000).”
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “…research has demonstrated that characteristics of a moral issue influence moral awareness (as well as ethical intentions), particularly the magnitude of consequences and social consensus dimensions (Flannery & May, 2000; B. F. Frey, 2000; May & Pauli, 2002; Singhapadki, Vitell, & Kraft, 1996).”
Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, background): “These issue-cues have been found to have an impact on all four components of ethical decision-making: from moral sensitivity to moral behavior (Jones, 1991; May & Pauli, 2002).”
The Impact of Moral Intensity and Desire for Control on Scaling Decisions in Social Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “For example, what happens if a social entrepreneur considers a scaling decision with a high magnitude of consequences but a low probability of effect? While these relationships are important to understand, much of the work in the area of moral intensity and ethics has not yet begun to explore these ”
Values and person‐organization fit: Does moral intensity strengthen outcomes? (2011, background): “Additionally, since the construct is somewhat recent, a large portion of the empirical studies have focused on the relationships between moral intensity and moral recognition, evaluation, and intention that were originally advanced by Jones’s (1991) research (May and Pauli, 2002; Singhapakdi et al.,”
The Impact of Perceived Ethical Culture of the Firm and Demographic Variables on Auditors’ Ethical Evaluation and Intention to Act Decisions (2010, background): “…components of Rest’s model have been found to apply in audit (e.g. Shafer et al., 1999, 2001) and non-audit settings (e.g. Barnett and Valentine, 2004; May and Pauli, 2002), little testing of the model has been carried out in the context of the types of auditor behaviours examined in this study.”
Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-making: An Empirical Examination of Undergraduate Accounting and Business Students (2009, background): “May and Pauli (2002) found that moral intensity was significantly related to identification in only one of their two scenarios and the social consensus component was not significant in either scenario.”
The role of construction, intuition, and justification in responding to ethical issues at work: The sensemaking-intuition model (2007, background): “While these parts of rationalist models are more consistent with the alternative I present below, moral awareness is often viewed as binary—you either recognize the ethical issue or you fail to do so (Jones, 1991: 380; May & Pauli, 2002: 97).”
A Comparison of Models Describing the Impact of Moral Decision Making on Investment Decisions (2008, methodology): “Regarding moral intensity, existing studies (Carlson, Kacmar & Wadsworth, 2002; Flannery & May, 2000; May & Pauli, 2002; Weber, 1996) did not concern moral behavior, but remained on the level of intentions.”