Ethical Blindness
Guido Palazzo, Franciska Krings, Ulrich Hoffrage
Journal of Business Ethics · 2012 · Volume 109 · Issue 3
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1130-4
Abstract
Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However, people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sensemaking approach, we argue that ethical blindness results from a complex interplay between individual sensemaking activities and context factors.
Keywords
Ethical decision-making, Ethical/unethical behavior, Ethical fading, Moral disengagement, Bounded awareness/ethicality, Rigid framing
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