An Advanced Measure of Moral Sensitivity in Business

Autor:	Carmen Tanner, Johannes Katsarov, David Schmocker, Markus Christen
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	050103 clinical psychology 0502 economics and business 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Competence (human resources) 050203 business & management Applied Psychology Cognitive psychology Moral blindness
Zdroj:	European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 36:864-873
ISSN:	2151-2426 1015-5759
DOI:	10.1027/1015-5759/a000564
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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