RT Article
T1 Assessing Managers’ Ethical Decision-making: An Objective Measure of Managerial Moral Judgment
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 73
IS 3
SP 263
OP 285
A1 Loviscky, Greg E.
A1 Treviño, Linda K.
A1 Jacobs, Rick R.
A2 Treviño, Linda K.
A2 Jacobs, Rick R.
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785627872
AB Recent allegations of unethical decision-making by leaders in prominent business organizations have jeopardized the world’s confidence in American business. The purpose of this research was to develop a measure of managerial moral judgment that can be used in future research and managerial assessment. The measure was patterned after the Defining Issues Test, a widely used general measure of moral judgment. With content validity as the goal, we aimed to sample the domain of managerial ethical situations by establishing links to dimensions of managerial performance, as well as to the types of organizational justice issues managers encounter. Proposed scenarios were evaluated for realism by ethics officers and human resource managers. Results indicated that the new measure is reliable and correlates with a number of relevant variables in the hypothesized manner, demonstrating evidence of construct validity. Implications for future research and for human resources management are discussed.
K1 Manager
K1 ethical decision-making
K1 Measurement
K1 Moral Judgment
DO 10.1007/s10551-006-9206-2