Investigating Influences on Managers’ Moral Reasoning

By James Weber, David M. Wasieleski. 2001

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Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “Moral reasoning has also been found to be lower when individuals respond to workrelated dilemmas compared to nonwork dilemmas (Weber, 1990; Weber & Wasieleski, 2001).”
The Effect of Context on Moral Intensity of Ethical Issues: Revising Jones's Issue-Contingent Model (2003, unknown): “patient/doctor, client/lawyer, client/therapist), which would be consistent with Weber and Wasieleski’s (2001) finding that health care industry employees approached ethical issues at higher moral reasoning levels than construction industry employees.”
Investigating the Effects of Moral Disengagement and Participation on Unethical Work Behavior (2011, background): “For example, Weber (1990) found that lower level reasoning when individuals responded to work-related as opposed to nonwork dilemmas (see also Weber and Wasieleski 2001 ).”
Ethical Decision Making in Times of Organizational Crisis (2003, background): “The literature is not, however, clear as to whether these decision makers indeed are at higher stages of moral development, or, if they are, whether they use that principled reasoning in their business decisions (Fraedrich et al., 1994; Weber & Wasieleski, 2001).”