Moral Learning in Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Organizational Ethics
基于实用主义哲学和道德想象力概念，提出组织道德学习的三个构建模块：道德植根于具体行动、评价伴随道德行动、道德学习是行动与评价的反馈循环，并嵌入有利的道德基础设施中。
Abstract Organizations face a plethora of moral challenges. To address these challenges, they must develop the capacity for moral action. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy and, more specifically, on the concept of moral imagination, we theorize such organizational capacity building as moral learning. We propose three conceptual building blocks, which together form the framework for moral learning. First, we posit that morality may be anchored in concrete action rather than in general rules or principles. In particular, we suggest that the locus of morality may reside in action itself, and not predominantly in the inner motivations for action or the external consequences of action. Second, we hold that, by providing normative guidance, evaluation goes hand in hand with moral action. Such evaluation is related to a specific action rather than abstract values. In a third step, we suggest that moral learning represents a feedback loop between moral action and evaluation. This loop is embedded in an enabling ethical infrastructure, i.e., organizational structures, spaces, and technologies, which provide the necessary socio-material conditions for moral development and learning to occur. The value of our framework for moral learning is in its heuristic ability to render ethics in organizations both legible and practicable.