Training professional managers in decision-making about real life business ethics problems: The acquisition of the autonomous problem-solving skill

In the present study business managers in Kabi Pharmacia Company were trained in the use of the autonomous method in their decision-making about solving real life business ethics problems. According to the psychological theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Kohlberg, it is possible to promote the acquis...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 1994
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 1994, Band: 13, Heft: 5, Seiten: 379-386
weitere Schlagwörter:B Cognitive Ability
B Business Manager
B Business Ethic
B Educational Programme
B Economic Growth
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Zusammenfassung:In the present study business managers in Kabi Pharmacia Company were trained in the use of the autonomous method in their decision-making about solving real life business ethics problems. According to the psychological theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Kohlberg, it is possible to promote the acquisition of the autonomous ethical skill by instruction and training. Indeed, participation in a one-day educational programme which focused on the training of the autonomous cognitive ability and not on the transfer of moral content, was sufficient to provide a shift in the mode of decision-making about business ethics problems towards the autonomous ethical function. This change was still stable one month later. A test was constructed by items representing current business ethics conflicts in order to assess ethical function.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00871765