Moral Judgment And Decision Making

The issue of moral judgment and the ethical decision-making is being mounted by the societal pressure. In this regard, theoretical models propose situational and individual factors contributing towards ethical conduct. According to Trevino (1986), consideration of the morally justified decision-making in the organization is imperative to the advancement in the organizational sciences. Recently, the organizational life depicts uncertain, complex and dynamic factors and the scenario increases the chances of ethical errors. Multiple stakeholder values and interests always remain conflicting, and the managers are required to exhibit the discretionary moral behavior to ensure the well-being of all. Thus, managers ought to be more trained over the ethical decision-making across varying situations because their ethical orientation relates to the protection and well-being of employees and the public.
Moral issues pertain to the persons’ actions that are freely performed as they have an equal tendency to benefit or to harm someone around …show more content…
Theory of moral development has been acknowledged in explaining the social responsibility and organizational ethical point of reference.

Theory and research have formed a link between moral judgments and the moral actions (Blasi, 1980). Moral rules are developed by studying the active role in the moral judgment (Durkheim, 1925). The sense lies in individual passing through the moral development and the action ought to be rational. Additionally, heteronomy focuses on being compliant and submissive moral behavior while the autonomy refers to the opposite. For the ethical action both the orientations need to be directed so that the energies should conserve into the morally acceptable attitude in either the