article about the model that can be used to see the impact of emotion on ethical decision making.

1.     Emotion and Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations

Alice Gaudine and Linda Thorne

Journal of Business Ethics 
Vol. 31, No. 2 (May, 2001) , pp. 175-187

Published by: Springer

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25074527

In the past, numerous researches have identified the influence of emotion on people’s ethical decisions. However, little researches have been done to understand whether different emotions promote or discourage ethical decision-making. In this article, the author has designed a model to identify how emotion affects individuals’ ethical decision-making process. He believes that people’s ethical decision process has four major components that are ethical sensitivity, prescriptive reasoning, ethical motivation and ethical behavior. He mentioned that those components come from Rest’s Model of Moral Action. Those four components are defined as follow. Ethical sensitivity means the ability to realize the ethical dilemma’s existence. Prescriptive reasoning is coming up with the alternative that can solve the ethical dilemma. Ethical motivation is the time when a person decides whether to implement her idea. Ethical behavior is the action in resolving the ethical dilemma. In Gaudine and Thorne’s model, they exanimate how the feeling state (positive feeling VS negative feeling) and arousal dimension of emotion affect each component. The following graphs are the model they adapted from others’ work.