![]() Since its initiation in 1980, the editors have encouraged the broadest possible scope. The Journal of Business Ethics publishes original articles from a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives concerning ethical issues related to business. Regarding personality, we detect significant positive effects of conscientiousness on ethics of justice and of neuroticism on ethics of care. We do not find a significant effect of managerial status on ethics of justice, but do find that holding a managerial position has a negative impact on ethics of care. ![]() Although gender does not affect moral reasoning directly, we find that it does so indirectly via personality, controlling for age, professional status, and professional background. ![]() We also find that care should be split into two components, one related to protection (or compassion) and the other to the preservation of relationships. Our study further examines how personality, gender, and managerial status affect the importance of care and justice in moral reasoning. Our study tests the hypotheses that a moral agent's emphasis on justice decreases with proximity, while his/her emphasis on care increases. We report the results of an experiment designed to determine the effects of psychological proximity-proxied by awareness of pain (empathy) and friendship-on moral reasoning.
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