Moral domain expertise and the complement model: The marriage of virtue ethics and situationism for business ethics programs |
Posted on:2013-10-18 | Degree:Ph.D | Type:Dissertation |
University:The University of Arizona | Candidate:Howard, Laura Marks | Full Text:PDF |
GTID:1455390008982800 | Subject:Philosophy |
Abstract/Summary: | |
When a business organization designs an ethics program, should it adopt a situationist conception of moral psychology or a virtue approach to character building? In this dissertation I argue that the answer is, both. The complement model is a recommendation for business ethics programs that blends the best aspects of these two theories in social psychology and philosophy. I start by giving a critique of the experimental literature surrounding situationism and argue that older adults have different prosocial competencies than the younger college-age subjects used in the situationist experiments. I give an explanation of virtue development, which concludes with the claim that older adults are an overlooked resource to be used in formal ethics mentoring programs. I also present the findings from a study I conducted with business ethics professionals, which provided information that I used to formulate the recommendations for the complement model. |
Keywords/Search Tags: | Ethics, Business, Complement model, Virtue |
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