Examining the Impact of Moral Imagination on Organizational Decision-Making
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-case12072800432021-08-03T05:32:35Z Examining the Impact of Moral Imagination on Organizational Decision-Making Godwin, Lindsey Nicole Business Community Management Organizational Behavior moral imagination organizational decision-making mutual benefit social responsibility creativity moral awareness <p>In the wake of the media attention given to recent tales of bad behavior within business, the dominant question asked seems to be, "Why do some business leaders make such bad moral decisions?" Yet there are many organizations where leaders act in moral and creative ways, making business decisions that lead to both increased profits and wider social benefit. While such examples are not apt to make headlines, they are reminders that in addition to understanding what goes wrong with some business leaders' decision making, it is just as important to ask: "Why do some business leaders make good moral decisions which result in mutual benefit to the company and wider society?" The overarching purpose of this dissertation is to explore that very question. </p><p>Building on the work of Werhane (1999, 1998), Johnson (1993), and others, I argue that one critical key to solving this question is a better understanding of moral imagination in organizational decision-making. Werhane defines moral imagination as, "the ability to understand a context or set of activities from a number of different perspectives, the actualizing of new possibilities that are not context-dependent, and the instigation of the process of evaluating those possibilities from a moral point of view" (1999, p. 5). </p><p>Using a new vignette-based cognitive measure for moral imagination, this dissertation provides one of the first empirical explorations of moral imagination as a theoretical construct and its relationship to mutually beneficial decision-making in business. Overall, findings from 180 respondents supported the hypothesis that individuals who exercise moral imagination, including the ability for discerning moral issues and developing a range of possible outcomes during the decision-making process, are indeed more likely to generate a mutually beneficial outcome for a situation compared to those who do not exercise moral imagination.</p> 2008-04-04 English text Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207280043 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207280043 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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