Bounded ethicality explains how predictable organizational pressures and psychological processes cause us to engage in ethically questionable behavior that is inconsistent with our own values and preferences.
Moral action involves taking the necessary steps to transform the intent to do the right thing into reality. This includes moral ownership, moral efficacy, and moral courage. Here are links to the other videos in this series:
Moral intent is the desire to act ethically when facing a decision and overcome the rationalization to not be ethical “this time.” Here is the entire Being Your Best Self series:
Moral decision making is the ability to produce a reasonable and defensible answer to an ethical question. If you have not yet seen Part 1 on Moral Awareness, you can watch that video here. This video discusses how to apply those lessons. Here are links to the entire Being Your Best Self series:
Moral awareness is the ability to detect and appreciate the ethical aspects of a decision that one must make. Learn why that matters in the following video, then watch the second video. Here are links to the entire Being Your Best Self series:
Behavioral Ethics investigates why people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do in order to gain insights into how people can improve their ethical decision-making and behavior. For example, most people think of themselves as good people, yet frequently lie and cheat in minor ways. Learn how that can be in the following…
Systematic moral analysis is a tool that helps us to think through ethically complex situations. Watch this video from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas to learn about how SMA can help you make better decisions.
Media representations of individuals or groups can hurt by reflecting stereotypes and mistaken beliefs or can help by being truthful and inclusive. This video describes how stereotypes (e.g. of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, belief, ability, or age) negatively impact the groups of people being represented.
A moral agent is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong, and has the power to intentionally cause harm to another. A moral subject is anything that can be harmed. This video focuses on distinguishing between the concepts of moral agent and subject of moral worth. Also important to this relationship is the moral community, which includes…
The relationship between laws and ethics is not always clear. Although we may have a legal right to do something, this does not necessarily mean it is ethically justified. Sometimes, a law is unjust, meaning that does not achieve ethical goals. This video details the difference.
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