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The role of construction, intuition and justification in responding to ethical issues at work. The sense making intuition model (2007)
| Venue: | Academy of Management Review |
| Citations: | 28 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Sonenshein07therole,
author = {Scott Sonenshein},
title = {The role of construction, intuition and justification in responding to ethical issues at work. The sense making intuition model},
journal = {Academy of Management Review},
year = {2007},
pages = {1022--1040}
}
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Abstract
Proponents of a popular view of how individuals respond to ethical issues at work claim that individuals use deliberate and extensive moral reasoning under conditions that ignore equivocality and uncertainty. I discuss the limitations of these “rationalist approaches ” and reconsider their empirical support using an alternative explanation from social psychological and sensemaking perspectives. I then introduce a new theoretical model composed of issue construction, intuitive judgment, and post hoc explanation and justification. I discuss the implications for management theory, methods, and practice. Several prominent theories claim that individ-uals use deliberate and extensive moral reason-ing to respond to ethical issues, such as weigh-ing evidence and applying abstract moral principles. These “rationalist approaches ” have flourished, in part, because of their cumulative research agenda and the absence of well-
Keyphrases
ethical issue intuition model rationalist approach post hoc explanation weigh-ing evidence management theory new theoretical model empirical support popular view extensive moral reason-ing issue construction abstract moral principle alternative explanation work claim several prominent theory cumulative research agenda intuitive judgment
