Moral awareness

Miller, Jared A.; Rodgers, Zachariah J.; Bingham, John

doi:10.4337/9781782547471.00008

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“…This study contributes to the literature on moral awareness and ethical leadership. The current literature on moral awareness is scarce (Miller et al , 2014) and mostly focuses on its antecedents (Wurthmann, 2017). This study provides empirical evidence on how the moral awareness of entrepreneurs may matter in product innovation of new ventures.…”

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The effects of entrepreneurs’ moral awareness and ethical behavior on product innovation of new ventures

Mai

Zhang

Wang

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply the social cognitive theory and social learning theory to examine the different mechanisms through which entrepreneurs’ moral awareness and ethical behavior affect the product innovation of new ventures. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected survey data from 150 founders and 389 founding team members of new ventures in China in 2015. The final sample contained 113 questionnaires from entrepreneurs and 246 questionnaires from their founding team members. Regression analyses were used to test direct effects, and Preacher and Hayes’ (2004) formal mediation test approach with bootstrapping method was used to evaluate the mediation effects. Findings The findings indicate that the ethical levels of entrepreneurs can affect the product innovation of a new venture through two paths: entrepreneurs with low levels of moral awareness tend to be more individually creative, which facilitates product innovation, and entrepreneurs with high levels of ethical behavior can make founding teams more creative, which also promotes product innovation. Practical implications The findings of this study suggest that entrepreneurs are not negatively affected by their low moral awareness as long as they exhibit high ethical behavior with founding team members. But such low moral awareness has to be genuine. The best way to promote product innovation in the long run is to create an organizational culture of ethical behavior rather than to ignore moral issues in decision-making. Originality/value This study challenges the assumption that moral awareness and ethical behavior are always consistent. It takes an initial step to resolve the contradiction in the current literature regarding the relationship between the ethical levels of entrepreneurs and product innovation in the context of founders and founding teams in new ventures.

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The effects of entrepreneurs’ moral awareness and ethical behavior on product innovation of new ventures

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Wang

2019

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“…Higher ratings generally imply that respondents notice more ethical dimensions, whereby the rating schemes differ to a certain degree (cf. Jordan, 2007;Miller, Rodgers, & Bingham, 2014).…”

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Moral Sensitivity Training – A Systematic Review

Katsarov,

Schmocker,

Tanner

et al. 2023

SSRN Journal

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“…To assess MS, it is indispensable to have an appropriate instrument. There are several instruments that measure MS, which are mostly domain-specific (for comprehensive overviews, see Jordan, 2007; Miller, Rodgers, & Bingham, 2014). While existing approaches have delivered substantial scientific insights and methodological developments, they have several noteworthy shortcomings that reduce their functionality for the purposes of research, assessment, and training.…”

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An Advanced Measure of Moral Sensitivity in Business

Schmocker

Tanner

Katsarov

et al. 2020

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Moral sensitivity, understood as an individual's capability of identifying and ascribing importance to moral issues when they arise, is often considered a key competence in professional life and a precondition of ethical behavior. With a focus on business settings, this article presents a new measure to assess individual's sensitivity to moral and business values. The measure was developed using a vignette-based domain-specific approach and validated in two studies. In Study 1, we compared our instrument and various convergent and divergent scales to obtain the first evidence of the construct validity of the instrument. Study 2 provides evidence of criterion validity by comparing the sensitivity to moral and business-related issues between a sample of business managers/bankers and employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The results demonstrate that business managers/bankers reveal lower scores of moral sensitivity than employees of NGOs. Further directions for moral sensitivity research and limitations are discussed.Abstract: Moral sensitivity, understood as an individual's capability of identifying and ascribing importance to moral issues when they arise, is often considered a key competence in professional life and a precondition of ethical behavior. With a focus on business settings, this article presents a new measure to assess individual's sensitivity to moral and business values. The measure was developed using a vignette-based domain-specific approach and validated in two studies. In Study 1, we compared our instrument and various convergent and divergent scales to obtain the first evidence of the construct validity of the instrument. Study 2 provides evidence of criterion validity by comparing the sensitivity to moral and business-related issues between a sample of business managers/bankers and employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The results demonstrate that business managers/bankers reveal lower scores of moral sensitivity than employees of NGOs. Further directions for moral sensitivity research and limitations are discussed.

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Moral awareness

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The effects of entrepreneurs’ moral awareness and ethical behavior on product innovation of new ventures

The effects of entrepreneurs’ moral awareness and ethical behavior on product innovation of new ventures

Moral Sensitivity Training – A Systematic Review

An Advanced Measure of Moral Sensitivity in Business

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