article review 1
Weber, James. (1991). Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Managers’ Moral Reasoning. Business Ethics Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 293-318
Introduction
In this article review I intend to summarize and evaluate the adaption of James Weber’s article “Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Managers”. Weber’s article discusses six stages and four adaptations of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Moral Judgment Interview and Standard Issue Scoring method. An empirical investigation tested the modifications to see if they helped enhance the evaluation of a manager’s moral reasoning. If these four adaptions can enhance the evaluation of a manager’s moral reasoning, then I consider that it would greatly help a company understand its manager’s decisions when facing ethical and/or moral dilemmas.
Background Information Research shows that managers often face ethical and moral workplace conflicts, yet there is little research to help understand managers’ moral reasoning process to solve these dilemmas (p.293). Kohlberg and his colleagues constructed a method to evaluate an individual’s moral reasoning from childhood to adulthood and a scoring method to measure and individuals reasoning, these are the Moral Judgment Interview and the Standard Issue Scoring (p. 294). Weber adapts four of Kohlberg’s six stages in order to better apply the Moral Judgment Interview and the Standard Issue Scoring. The criteria that will be used to evaluate this article will be if his adaptions help the business society enhance the understanding of moral reasoning.
Summary
Weber’s article defines four adaptions of Kohlberg’s Moral Judgment Interview and Standard Issue Scoring method. These are: “(1) a mixture of less familiar and more familiar moral dilemmas, (2) followup questions which probe managers’ moral reasoning by focusing upon key organizational values, (3) the flexibility of utilizing either an oral or written interview method,
Introduction
In this article review I intend to summarize and evaluate the adaption of James Weber’s article “Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Managers”. Weber’s article discusses six stages and four adaptations of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Moral Judgment Interview and Standard Issue Scoring method. An empirical investigation tested the modifications to see if they helped enhance the evaluation of a manager’s moral reasoning. If these four adaptions can enhance the evaluation of a manager’s moral reasoning, then I consider that it would greatly help a company understand its manager’s decisions when facing ethical and/or moral dilemmas.
Background Information Research shows that managers often face ethical and moral workplace conflicts, yet there is little research to help understand managers’ moral reasoning process to solve these dilemmas (p.293). Kohlberg and his colleagues constructed a method to evaluate an individual’s moral reasoning from childhood to adulthood and a scoring method to measure and individuals reasoning, these are the Moral Judgment Interview and the Standard Issue Scoring (p. 294). Weber adapts four of Kohlberg’s six stages in order to better apply the Moral Judgment Interview and the Standard Issue Scoring. The criteria that will be used to evaluate this article will be if his adaptions help the business society enhance the understanding of moral reasoning.
Summary
Weber’s article defines four adaptions of Kohlberg’s Moral Judgment Interview and Standard Issue Scoring method. These are: “(1) a mixture of less familiar and more familiar moral dilemmas, (2) followup questions which probe managers’ moral reasoning by focusing upon key organizational values, (3) the flexibility of utilizing either an oral or written interview method,