Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies
Moral choice, as a precursor to behaviour, has an important influence on the success or failure of business entities. According to Rest, 1983, Morality, Moral Behavior and Moral Development (John Wiley & Sons, New York), moral choice is prompted, amongst other things, by a motivational component...
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| description | Moral choice, as a precursor to behaviour, has an important influence on the success or failure of business entities. According to Rest, 1983, Morality, Moral Behavior and Moral Development (John Wiley & Sons, New York), moral choice is prompted, amongst other things, by a motivational component. With this in mind, data obtained from a sample of four hundred financial sector operatives, employed in a rapidly developing region of China, was used to construct a relatively stable set of motivational typologies which could be used to predict choice within an agency-based context. A non-egoist version of the agency theory was developed, which permitted the modelling of alternative heuristic patterns. Altruists and persons identified as bordering on the verge of being classified as psychological egoists, refused to reorganize their motives when responding to a problem that included both moral hazard and adverse selection criteria. It was also possible to identify certain personal and contextual issues which discriminated between the typologies. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-218132017-09-13T13:55:43Z Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies Woodbine, Gordon Taylor, Dennis Moral choice, as a precursor to behaviour, has an important influence on the success or failure of business entities. According to Rest, 1983, Morality, Moral Behavior and Moral Development (John Wiley & Sons, New York), moral choice is prompted, amongst other things, by a motivational component. With this in mind, data obtained from a sample of four hundred financial sector operatives, employed in a rapidly developing region of China, was used to construct a relatively stable set of motivational typologies which could be used to predict choice within an agency-based context. A non-egoist version of the agency theory was developed, which permitted the modelling of alternative heuristic patterns. Altruists and persons identified as bordering on the verge of being classified as psychological egoists, refused to reorganize their motives when responding to a problem that included both moral hazard and adverse selection criteria. It was also possible to identify certain personal and contextual issues which discriminated between the typologies. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21813 10.1007/s10551-005-2583-0 Kluwer Academic Publishers restricted |
| spellingShingle | Woodbine, Gordon Taylor, Dennis Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title | Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title_full | Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title_fullStr | Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title_short | Moral choice in an agency framework: The search for a set of motivational typologies |
| title_sort | moral choice in an agency framework: the search for a set of motivational typologies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21813 |