moral
(adjective)
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior, especially for teaching right behavior.
Examples of moral in the following topics:
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Kohlberg and Moral Development
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Moral Leadership
- Ethical or moral leadership demonstrates responsibility for doing what is right.
- Moral leadership means making decisions that respect the rights and dignity of others.
- Moral leadership is important for protecting an organization's reputation.
- Moral leadership goes beyond doing what is legal.
- In this way, moral leaders take responsibility for the moral climate in their organizations and help others understand, share, and act in accordance with those values.
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Ethics Training
- People use moral reasoning in an attempt to do the right thing.
- Swaner, moral behavior has four components:
- Moral motivation, which is "a personal commitment to moral action, accepting responsibility for the outcome."
- Realizing good conduct, being an effective moral agent, and bringing values into one's work, all require skills in addition to a moral inclination.
- Moral creativity: Moral creativity is closely related to moral imagination, but it centers on the ability to frame a situation in different ways.
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Moral Development in Childhood
- Moral development refers to changes in moral beliefs as a person grows older and gains maturity.
- Moral development refers to changes in moral beliefs as a person grows older and gains maturity.
- At the preconventional level, a child's sense of morality is externally controlled.
- Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience - In this stage, children find it hard to distinguish between two separate moral points of view, especially in a moral dilemma.
- At the postconventional or principled level, children can think of morals and values in an abstract way and begin to realize some moral dilemmas do not have a clear-cut, right or wrong answer.
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Panic
- A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, poses a menace to society.
- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
- A moral panic is specifically framed in terms of morality, and usually expressed as outrage rather than unadulterated fear.
- Though not always, very often moral panics revolve around issues of sex and sexuality.
- Recent moral panics in the UK have included the ongoing tabloid newspaper campaign against pedophiles, which led to the assault and persecution of a pediatrician by an angry, if semi-literate, mob in August 2000, and that surrounding the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool, England in 1993.
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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
- Kolhberg's theory of moral development states that we progress through three levels of moral thinking that build on our cognitive development.
- He used the idea of moral dilemmas—stories that present conflicting ideas about two moral values—to teach 10 to 16 year-old boys about morality and values.
- After presenting people with various moral dilemmas, Kohlberg reviewed people’s responses and placed them in different stages of moral reasoning.
- Each level of morality contains two stages, which provide the basis for moral development in various contexts.
- Each level is associated with increasingly complex stages of moral development.
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Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
- In addition to adverse selection, moral hazards are also a result of asymmetric information.
- A moral hazard can occur when the actions of one party may change to the detriment of another after a financial transaction.
- For example, moral hazards occur in employment relationships involving employees and management.
- A lack of equal information causes economic imbalances that result in adverse selection and moral hazards.
- An insured driver getting into a car accident is an example of a moral hazard.
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Ethical Decision Making
- Ethical decision making is the process of assessing the moral implications of a course of action.
- Ethics are moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences.
- Ethical decision making is the process of assessing the moral implications of a course of action.
- All decisions have an ethical or moral dimension for a simple reason—they have an effect on others.
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Culture and Ethics
- Culture reflects the moral values and ethical norms governing how people should behave and interact with others.
- Culture reflects the moral and ethical beliefs and standards that speak to how people should behave and interact with others.
- They act as prescriptions for correct and moral behavior, lend meaning and coherence to life, and provide a means of achieving a sense of integrity, safety, and belonging.
- This approach is in contrast to universalism, which holds the position that moral values are the same for everyone.
- Explain the role of culture in shaping moral and ethical behavior
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Defining Ethics
- Ethics are the set of moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- Ethics are the set of moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
- These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences.