Moral Reasoning at Work: Rethinking Ethics in Organizations

1. Front Matter

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2. Beyond Compliance

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3. Moral Dilemmas

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4. Duties and Outcomes

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5. Moral Luck

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6. Two Ethical Principles

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7. The Navigation Wheel

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8. From Responsible to Responsive

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9. Loophole Ethics

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10. Conflict of Interest

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11. Character and Circumstances

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12. Moral Neutralization

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13. The Invisible Gorilla

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14. Back Matter

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This book is open access under CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional approaches to ethics to prepare for moral dilemmas.

• compliance
• conflict
• ethics
• morality
• organization
• organizations

• BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

  Øyvind Kvalnes

Øyvind Kvalnes is an associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School. He has facilitated moral reasoning sessions in a range of organizations in the private and public sectors. His main research and teaching interests are in ethics, moral psychology, leadership, and excellence in organizations.

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