Managers' Moral Reasoning: Assessing Their Responses to Three Moral Dilemmas
基于科尔伯格道德发展理论，评估管理者对三种道德困境的反应，发现他们通常处于阶段3或4，但大中企业管理者比小企业或自雇者阶段更低，且商业情境下的道德推理显著低于非商业情境。
Based on Kolhberg's theory of moral development, an assessment of managers' responses to three moral dilemmas was explored. The findings indicate that managers typically reason at moral reasoning stages 3 or 4, similar to most adults in Western, urban societies or other business managers. However, differences were discovered when the organizational size of the managers' employer and type of moral issue were considered. Managers employed by large to medium-sized organizations tended to reason at lower moral reasoning stages than managers who work in small firms or were self-employed. Moral reasoning exhibited when the dilemmas were placed in a business context was significantly lower than for a dilemma in a non-business context. Implications from these findings are discussed.