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Vignette Themes and Moral Reasoning in Business Contexts: The Case for the Defining Issues Test
Journal of Business Ethics ( IF 6.331 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 , DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04944-8
Peter E. Mudrack 1 , E. Sharon Mason 2
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Some researchers interested in assessing moral reasoning among business practitioners or students have developed their own vignettes or scenarios set in business contexts, based on assumptions that the situations presented in the often-used Defining Issues Test (DIT) will somehow be inappropriate for these specific types of respondents. This paper is the first to examine in depth both the actual details contained in these business-oriented scenarios and empirical findings emerging from them. Among this paper’s conclusions are: (1) assumptions underpinning the presumed superiority of business-oriented vignettes have yet to be tested; (2) the DIT possesses considerable advantages unavailable in alternative measures; (3) many business-oriented scenarios have underlying Dilemma themes that seem inherently ambiguous and thus of questionable relevance for assessing moral reasoning; (4) these scenarios have no obvious equivalent in the DIT and thus cannot definitively be placed under the umbrella of the latter’s demonstrated construct validity; and (5) meaningful empirical findings have not clearly emerged from investigations using business-oriented vignettes. In light of these conclusions, we recommend that investigators interested in moral reasoning advance knowledge in a coherent and unified way by using the DIT that seems entirely appropriate for use among respondents with business experience or training. Although alternative measures may have value for assessing ethical judgments, evidence of their validity as a measure of moral reasoning is lacking.



中文翻译:

商业环境中的小插图主题和道德推理:定义问题测试的案例

一些对评估商业从业者或学生的道德推理感兴趣的研究人员根据经常使用的定义问题测试 (DIT) 中呈现的情况在某种程度上不适合这些特定类型的假设,开发了自己的小插曲或在商业环境中设置的场景的受访者。本文首次深入研究了这些面向业务的场景中包含的实际细节以及从中产生的实证结果。本文的结论包括:(1) 支撑面向业务的小插曲假定优越性的假设尚未得到检验;(2) DIT具有替代措施所不具备的显着优势;(3) 许多面向业务的场景都有潜在的 Dilemma 主题,这些主题似乎本质上是模棱两可的,因此与评估道德推理的相关性值得怀疑;(4) 这些情景在 DIT 中没有明显的等价物,因此不能明确地置于后者已证明的构念效度的保护伞之下;(5) 使用面向商业的小插曲进行的调查没有清楚地得出有意义的实证结果。根据这些结论,我们建议对道德推理感兴趣的调查人员通过使用似乎完全适合具有商业经验或培训的受访者使用的 DIT,以连贯和统一的方式推进知识。尽管替代措施可能对评估伦理判断有价值,但缺乏其作为道德推理措施有效性的证据。

更新日期:2021-09-16
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