Exploring ethical judgment change in business ethics education: an essay of modelization through the Sensemaking perspective

Loréa Baïada-Hirèche (), Jean Pasquero and Lionel Garreau
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Loréa Baïada-Hirèche: IMT-BS - MMS - Département Management, Marketing et Stratégie - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management
Jean Pasquero: UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal
Lionel Garreau: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The objective of this research is to study how EJ changes in the context of a BE course. We adopted an interpretive approach to conduct a longitudinal qualitative study with four cohorts of professionals, following an executive training program, at a French university. They were asked to describe an ethical problem that they had encountered. This report was to be done twice, once at the beginning of the BE course, and once at the end of the course, when they were asked to reconsider this same problem. We thus collected the accounts of 66 people on two occasions, separated by three months, and compared the pre-course and post-course accounts for each professional. This design enabled us to analyse respondents' change of EJ from the beginning to the end of the BE course. From this qualitative inductive research, we developed a model based on a sensemaking perspective, that describes how EJ changes after a BE course. It reveals four different mechanisms through which EJ changes: complexifying, prioritizing, conceptualizing and contextualizing. It also identicates the factors that influence this change of EJ, be they linked to the course or not. Our research provides enriched explanations of EJ change in the context of a BE course, thus contributing to extending the understanding of the impact of BE education on EJ. We also contribute to theory by proposing a model of EJ change, through the concept of "sense-remaking". Besides its theoretical contribution to the field of sensemaking and ethical education, our research has practical implications for managers' ethical decision-making as well as for the teaching of BE.

Date: 2017-06-14
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Published in European Business Ethics Network EBEN Annual Conference 2017. "Searching for sustainability in future working life", Jun 2017, Jyväskylä, Finland

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