Managers and Moral Dissonance: Self Justification as a Big Threat to Ethical Management?

This article discusses the implications of moral dissonance for managers, and how dissonance induced self justification can create an amplifying feedback loop and downward spiral of immoral behaviour. After addressing the nature of moral dissonance, including the difference between moral and hedonis...

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Main Author: Lowell, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2012
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 105, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-25
Further subjects:B Free choice paradigm
B Morality
B Self justification
B Moral dissonance
B Cognitive Dissonance
B Management
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