PERCEPTIONS OF ETHICS ACROSS SITUATIONS - A VIEW THROUGH 3 DIFFERENT LENSES

This paper examined three approaches for understanding perceptions of ethics: moral philosophies, cognitive moral development, and ethical v alue systems. First, the dimensionality of the moral philosophy approa ch was examined. Next, an attempt was made to integrate the models. Fi nally, each of the model's various components were used in a regressio n equation to isolate the best predictors of ethicality. Results indic ated that the moral philosophies can be considered distinct entities, but the common underlying theme between the approaches was not as pred icted. Also, individuals used a variety of approaches, not always the same ones, to determine the ethicalness of situations.