Introduction to Organizational Moral Psychology: Understanding, Explaining, Diagnosing, and Intervening to Build More Ethical, Humane, and Sustainable
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What determines whether a person behaves ethically within an organization? Why do some teams develop cultures based on trust, cooperation, and accountability, while others gradually normalize harmful practices, internal conflicts, or questionable decisions?
The answer cannot be found solely in individual values, codes of conduct, or institutional policies. Organizations are complex human systems where emotions, moral intuitions, shared beliefs, incentives, social pressures, leadership styles, cultural narratives, and contextual factors interact to profoundly influence how people interpret what is right and make decisions.
INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL MORAL PSYCHOLOGY presents a new perspective for understanding how human behavior emerges, is sustained, and evolves within workplaces and organizational environments. This work proposes the field of Organizational Moral Psychology (OMP) as an integrative framework that connects insights from moral psychology, organizational psychology, behavioral science, sociology, and argumentation theory.
Unlike traditional approaches that focus exclusively on business ethics, regulatory compliance, or the personal characteristics of individuals, this book examines how people construct moral judgments within organizations and how those judgments are shaped by culture, social norms, reference groups, reasoning processes, and the design of the work environment.
Through a scientific and applied approach, the book explores fundamental questions such as:
- How are perceptions of fairness, responsibility, and commitment formed within organizations?
- Why do people sometimes justify behaviors that contradict their own values?
- How do leaders influence the development of moral cultures?
- Why do some organizations promote cooperation while others facilitate distrust or corruption?
- How can the factors affecting ethical organizational behavior be diagnosed and addressed?
The book introduces a conceptual model of Organizational Moral Psychology (OMP) designed to understand, diagnose, and intervene in essential organizational phenomena such as cooperation, trust, conflict, decision-making, moral leadership, organizational corruption, and the development of healthy workplace cultures.
In addition, it presents evidence-based tools and models, including contemporary behavioral science frameworks such as COM-B and EAST, along with concepts related to social norms, choice architecture, behavior change, and the design of organizational environments that encourage positive behaviors.
This work is intended for business leaders, executives, consultants, human resources professionals, psychologists, researchers, managers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the human dimension that sustains-or weakens-organizations.
Rather than offering a definitive formula for creating ethical organizations, this book proposes a new way of observing organizational life: recognizing that every organization is also a moral system in which people continuously define what is acceptable, what is right, and what is worth defending.
Because before transforming an organization, it is necessary to understand the psychology that guides the decisions of the people who make it what it is.
Building more ethical, human-centered, and sustainable organizations begins with understanding the invisible morality that lives within them.
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