Organizational ethical development model
Developed ethical
Emerging ethical
Responsive
Legalistic
Amoral
• Stage 5 DEVELOPED ETHICAL Driven by carefully thought out principles
• Stage 4 EMERGING ETHICAL Seeks a balance between ethics and profit. – Firm has ethical artifacts such as codes and ethics
committees
• Stage 3 RESPONSIVE Seeks ways to help the local community– Recognizes socially responsible behaviour is in the
best economic interest of the firm
• Stage 2 LEGALISTIC Follows the letter of the law– What is legal is ethical
• Stage 1 AMORAL maximum profitability at all costs– Owners and managers are key stakeholdersSource Reidenbach R E and Robin D P, A
Conceptual Model of Corporate Moral Development, Journal of Business Ethics April 1991 vol 10 page 274
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