ABSTRACT
Research on organizational and business ethics training reveals inconsistent, unstable, and equivocal results. The researchers, Spoma Jovanovic and Roy Wood, then participated in a slow-moving and deliberate observation of the evolution of the ethics initiative over the following four years. They were actively involved in observing nearly every time and place Denver City Government convened to work on improving its ethical culture. The research team's approach did not involve teaching theories of normative ethics to doctoral students. Instead, the researchers' ethics training intervention involved explanations of what the researchers labeled "metacognitive reasoning strategies". This introduction also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows how applying the scripts of individual moral instruction used by the authority figures of our youth is not the only available, or even the most appropriate, means to leading ethical behavior in the workplace.
