Ethical Blindness

Adopting a sensemaking approach, it is argued that ethical blindness results from a complex interplay between individual sensemaking activities and context factors.

Abstract

Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However, people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sensemaking approach, we argue that ethical blindness results from a complex interplay between individual sensemaking activities and context factors.