Ethical Values and Principles versus the Challenges Facing Sport Managers and Leaders

Moral knowing

The cognitive phase of learning about moral issues and how to resolve them. Recognition of
a moral or ethical problem

Moral reasoning

a personal attempt to distinguish from right from wrong and good and bad

moral valuing

What we believe about ourselves, society, and others around us

Moral values

Justice, Beneficence, respect, honestly, integrity, and responsibility 

the relative worth that’s placed in some behavior subjective, internal, immeasureable

social climate

The feel of the organization, and the activities that have ethical content

Rest 1986 Four Stage Model 

A framework developed to explain how people make moral or ethical decisions. It breaks the process into four stages, showing that ethical behavior doesn’t happen automatically — it involves thinking, feeling, and acting at multiple levels.

Trevino’s Person-Situation interactionist Model

Explains why people behave ethically or unethically at work. It shows that ethical behavior is not just about a person’s character — it’s also shaped by the situation or environment they’re in.

Ethical Leadership Decision-Making (ELDM)
Framework

A model that helps leaders make ethical choices and guide others to act ethically as well. Involving Ethics of Profession, Ethics of Care, Ethics of Critique, and Ethics of Justice.

Situational moderators

External factors in the environment that can influence or change how someone behaves ethically or unethically.

When deciding to cheat on a test, you realize that most of students are going to cheat and the teacher isn’t strict.

Example of situational moderators

moral consequences, institutional consequences, and situational moderators

What 3 main things go into making a decision?

Moral Action 

Acting based on ethical principles

Moral community

characterized by social integration and moral integration ( a set of beliefs about morality and behavior) amongst a group of people

Universal Principles

a statement (in the negative) of our values and beliefs from which all other rules are developed. The core moral rules or values that apply to all people, regardless of culture, time, or situation.