When Harm is at Stake: Ethical Value Orientation, Managerial Decisions, and Relational Outcomes

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• 作者：Amy Klemm Verbos (1)
  Janice S. Miller (2)
  
  1. Department of Management ; Central Michigan University ; 204D Smith Hall ; Mount Pleasant ; MI ; 48859 ; USA
  2. Lubar School of Business ; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ; P.O. Box 413 ; Milwaukee ; WI ; 53201 ; USA
  
• 关键词：Ethical value orientation ; Relational ethics ; Consequentialism ; Relational connection ; Expected mutual benefit
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：127
• 期：1
• 页码：149-163
• 全文大小：402 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

Relational dimensions of ethical decision making are a potentially interesting focus to enrich our understanding of decision-making processes. This study examines decision preferences and reactions to decisions in a situation of possible harm. Two ethical value orientations, just value orientation (JVO) and relational value orientation (RVO), are introduced. Participants chose relational cooperation, instrumental cooperation, or independence in dealing with an uncertain situation of possible harm. JVO contributes to a decision of relational cooperation. Only RVO was related to expected mutual benefit and relational connection. Overall, this study supports our central thesis that a relational dimension of ethical decisions provides interesting insights into behavioral ethics in organizations and could expand the scope of ethical decision research.