Story about stealing the button from hobby lobby and

Story about stealing the button from Hobby Lobby and her mom
making her take it back in and apologize, then about her son stealing
a pretty rock from Disneyworld and her making him take it back and
apologize
o Managerial ethics-
 Firm to employee
 Employee to firm
 Firm to other economic agents involved with them
 VIDEO- Wall Street- Douglas=firm, Sheen=employee; the firm tried to
push the employee to do unethical and illegal things
o Moral awareness- occurs when an authority figure realizes that a moral issue exists
in a situation or that an ethical code or principle is relevant to the situation
 Moral intensity- basically the degree to which and ethical issue is urgent,
how many people will it affect, harm or death?
 Moral attentiveness- degree to which people chronically perceive and
consider issues of morality during their experiences
o Moral judgement- process people use to determine if a particular course of action is
ethical or unethical
 Cognitive moral development- argues that people move through stages of
moral development as they age and each stage is more sophisticated and
wise than the last
 Pre-conventional stage- usually children, right vs wrong is viewed in
the face of the consequences attached
 Conventional stage- right and wrong is referenced to the person’s
family or the society around them, seeking approval from
family/friends
 Principled stage (post-conventional)- right and wrong is referenced to
a set of distinguished morals and beliefs
 moral principles- serve as prescriptive guides for making moral judgments
o Moral intent- reflects the person’s commitment to the moral action or doing the
right thing
 most people know they are doing the wrong thing but do it anyway because
of pressures from things like the economy or unethical behavior being the
norm in that organization
 doing the right thing is hard
 Moral identity- the degree to which a person identifies as a moral person
 Moderates the effect of moral judgment on ethical behavior
o Ethical challenges today-
 “I want my MTV”- need for immediate gratification, short term satisfaction

 “winner take all”- getting trophies for
showing up
 “Where does it end?”- leaders and lying constantly and we
let them
 “your disk is too full to complete this
function”- we Google everything we need
to know
 “where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?”- no
one ethical to look up to, no celebrities that
are not caught in a scandal, idols are
different
 Trust effects on Job performance and Organizational
commitment:
o Job performance- moderate positive effect b/c
employees that are willing to be vulnerable are
likely to have higher task performance
o Organizational commitment- strong positive
correlation b/c employees that are willing to be
vulnerable have higher levels of affective and
normative commitment
o Ability to focus- the degree to which an employee can devote their
attention to their work as opposed to covering their butt or looking out for the boss
o Economic exchange- low level of trust, basically just getting paid for the work you did
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