Center director Sean Hannah, Wilson chair in business ethics and professor of management, is a co-author on a paper published recently by the highly-regarded Academy of Management Journal. The paper, titled “Different hats, different obligations: plural occupational identities and situated moral judgments,” addresses the way management professionals make decisions based on their occupational identities.
An engineer might address ethical problems one way, while a manager would approach problems differently. But what happens when the manager is also an engineer? The team looks at the ways that our moral “knowledge structures” get activated based on the context of key decisions.
This article is available through a variety of academic databases, including EBSCO, and from the AMJ website.