Ethical Judgments: What Do We Know, Where Do We Go?

Bullying in the Australian ICT workplace: the views of Australian ICT professionals

“…On the other hand, Lucas and Mason (2008) found that male ICT professionals thought that ethical regulations should be less important, in comparison to female ICT professionals. Mudrack and Mason (2013) concluded that gender does not impact on ethical judgement. However, in cases when the difference occurs, women judged ethically questionable activities as being less appropriate than men.…”

Dilemmas, Conspiracies, and Sophie’s Choice: Vignette Themes and Ethical Judgments

“…Although the concept seems straightforward, decades of empirical investigation have failed to advance knowledge appreciably given tendencies, for example, toward replication of wellestablished findings (Mudrack & Mason, 2012). As suggested by these authors, an overall absence of meaningful results may be attributable to a neglect of the actual content of ethical judgments; that is, to precisely what survey respondents are evaluating.…”

“…Our point of departure was the observations of Mudrack and Mason (2012) based on their analysis of a few specific vignettes that suggested four criteria (e.g., victim salience) on which these might meaningfully be classified. With little to no prior discussion in the literature regarding vignette Vignette Themes (Revised) 4 content, there seemed no obvious alternative approach that would help to make sense of vignette proliferation and diversity.…”

“…As noted by Mudrack and Mason (2012), researchers seldom offer definitive reasons for using the specific vignettes; a practice that can be traced back to Reidenbach and Robin's (1990) seminal work. Many papers, in fact, omit vignettes altogether (e.g., Chiu and Erdener, 2003;Cohen and Bennie, 2006;Razzaque and Hwee, 2002;Schwepker and Ingram, 1996;Shafer, 2008), while others merely allude to vignette content (e.g., "offer monetary bribe to buyer", "indirect material bribe to buyer"; Stevenson and Bodkin, 1998, p. 50).…”

“…Empirical investigations could then explore ethical judgments in the context of different themes in some depth, build directly on prior research, and thus perhaps create a more meaningful understanding of such judgments than has heretofore been available. We begin by looking more closely at the specific vignettes discussed Vignette Themes (Revised) 6 by Mudrack and Mason (2012) and use four criteria on which vignettes might usefully be classified to identify two separate themes, Dilemma and Classic.…”