Reason and emotion
Two forces that influence ethical decision-making.
What is reason and emotion?
James Rest developed this model of moral behavior.
What is the four-component model?
A systemic approach to decision-making that includes The Four-Way Method, Foursquare Protocol, Five Timeless Questions, and Moral Brief
What is an Ethical Decision Making Format?
These are choices made by leaders to set moral tone and solve moral dilemmas.
What are ethical decisions?
This process often occurs first in moral judgments
What is Intuition?
The ability to recognize that an ethical issue exists
What is moral sensitivity?
This long decision making format may be compared to a document you would present to a court in a legal case.
What is The Moral Brief?
A failure to recognize that your behavior has moral implications.
What is an ethical blind spot?
A theory that moral judgments are driven by quick intuitions, followed by rational explanations
What is the social intuitionist model?
The process of deciding what the most ethical course of action is, often based on a combination of intuition, emotion, and conscious reasoning.
What is moral judgment?
This method draws upon established codes of ethics. And also involves gathering information on how previous issues were resolved by past leadership.
What is the Foursquare Protocol?
When people have strong opinions on what is right or wrong but cannot explain why.
They can help ethical decision making, may alert us to moral concerns, and promote empathy.
What are emotions?
A phenomenon when we prioritize ethical values over personal or organizational gain.
What is Moral Motivation?
This method involves the assumption that we have core obligations to other humans.
What is The Five Timeless Questions?
This is when we convince ourselves what is normally wrong is right.
What is moral disengagement?
Relying solely on this may lead to poor moral decisions that ignore human emotion and empathy- leading to unjust choices.
What is logical reasoning?
Having the courage, perseverance, and integrity to act on ethical decisions.
What is moral character?
The four modes of thinking used in the four-way method.
What is Truth, Consequences, Fairness, and Character?
This is what happens when people overlook the moral aspects of a decision
What is ethical fading?