RT Article
T1 An empirical study of moral reasoning among managers
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 8
IS 11
SP 855
OP 862
A1 Derry, Robbin
LA English
YR 1989
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785599992
AB Current research in moral development suggests that there are two distinct modes of moral reasoning, one based on a morality of justice, the other based on a morality of care. The research presented here examines the kinds of moral reasoning used by managers in work-related conflicts. Twenty men and twenty women were randomly selected from the population of first level managers in a Fortune 100 industrial corporation. In open-ended interviews each participant was asked to describe a situation of moral conflict in her or his work life. The results indicated a clearly preferred mode of moral reasoning among the participants who described moral conflicts. Nearly all of these predominated with a justice orientation. These findings suggest that a correlation between gender and preferred mode may be context specific.
K1 Level Manager
K1 Moral Development
K1 Moral Reasoning
K1 Empirical Study
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1007/BF00384528