ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the field of organizational ethics is beginning to catch up with the current trends in moral psychology and neuroscience. The social intuitionist model (SIM) seeks to correct that oversight by highlighting the important role communication plays in this process. Haidt and Joseph (2004) theorized how universal moral intuitions can result in such diverse cultural variation: First, some cultures may emphasize the importance of one moral intuition and attempt to pit it against another in their cultural ways of talking. This foregoing discussion regarding the relationship between universal moral intuitions and their variable expression in culturally esteemed virtues might make it seem like all cultures disagree about what virtues are praiseworthy. The advances in moral psychology and neuroscience described thus far have begun to catch the attention of organizational ethics researchers. Readers see embedded within Rest's model the assumption that ethical decision making is a deliberative, effortful, and thoughtful process.
