Behavioral ethics

In ethics teaching and research, ethics is arguably the "next big thing" because its investigation agenda has generated many knowledge on why and how people choose and act when being confronted with ethical subject, which was unknown previously.[6] Based on the extant body of ethics course books and course plans from fields such as medicine, teaching, accounting, and journalism, "moral reasoning" - along with associated skills - is often an established objective.[7] Behavioural ethics, however, is distinguished from the concept of moral reasoning because ethical behaviour is primarily driven by a diverse set of intuitive processes over which individuals have little conscious control. Behavioural ethics calls for a model of ethics in education that focuses not on directly modelling good ethical reasoning but on the way people think clearly and impartially about ethical problems.[7]

Philosophical views about morality has been supported traditionally by theoretical reasoning and introspection, with at best passing reference to actual human behaviour. Models of human morality advanced by behavioural ethics based on the fact that morality is a new and still developing quality of the evolutionary dynamic that leads to our species.[8]

Clarifying the difference between behavioural law and economics(BLE) and behavioural ethics(BE) is of importance. Compared to BLE, BE has reduced its ability of influencing broad legal academic circles. In addition, unlike BLE, BE was advanced as piece of the management literature, which is less related to legal scholarship than BLE is, and thus less likely to have impact on it.[9]

Behavioural ethics researchers have found the relationship between employees' justice perceptions and also, ethical and unethical behaviour. In the 1990s, organizational justice became one of the most studied organizational themes. The term organizational justice is created by Greenberg(1987) to involve employee's perception of organizational events, policies, and practices as being fair or not fair. Classic work on distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice has been built. This research has focused on theoretical advance and empirical testing about the formation of justice judgements as well as the result of these justice evaluation. Justice and injustice perception have been related to an extensive variety of employee attitudes and behaviours consisted of trust, satisfaction, turnover and plenty of opposite formal negative behaviours such as theft and unethical behaviours which are more common.[10]

Ethics can be defined as going beyond what is legal and doing right things, even no one is paying attention to. So unethical behaviour in business is about actions that don't obey the acceptable criterion of business operations, failing to do right things in each condition.[16]