Can you explain what Ethical Competence means? In the article “The Role of Empathy, Personal Values, and the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Ethical Decision-Making” by Rico Pohling, Danilo Bzdok, Monika Eigenstetter, Siegfried Stumpf, and Anja Strobel, they explore this topic.
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Article Review
The article is all about Ethical Competence, The Role of Empathy, Personal Values, and the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Ethical Decision-Making. The article was published on the 12th of February 2015. Its article here starts with ethical competence. I describe the meaning of ethical competence. It discusses the conscious decision and the cation within the given responsibility which is provided. The article further discusses ethical decision-making. Ethical decision-making is an important part of any organization because the ethical decision-making is not taken place then the organization may not run effectively in the future.
In the article, the discussion is mainly focused on ethical work and the hope that ethically doing the work is important in the organization. It discussed the role of the empath and the hope that empathy is an important aspect of the organization as well. The discussion then further explains the five factors of personality on a facet level with moral cognition and moral conation processes. The discussion is made and for the article understanding the diagram is done so that it can be helpful to the people to understand the topic [properly without any issues. Here the author provided a detailed description relations of between personal values and ethical standards because it is clear that the organization can work properly if it follows this. The discussion then further explains the Moral cognition processes and their different levels as well.
According to the article, it can be seen that the author focuses on the ethical way of working and also provided various diagrams so that it can be helpful for the readers to understand the topic properly without any issues. The article here provides the detail of each of the works. The article provides detailed information on every topic so that it can be helpful to understand ethics. The article describes each topic and the author makes sure that he provides the full information of each topic so that the readers can have their knowledge of each of the topics properly. The article is mainly focused on the ethical and decision-making process (Pohling et al. 2016, p.450). It also provides information related to the role of ethics in the organization.
Reference
Pohling, R., Bzdok, D., Eigenstetter, M., Stumpf, S., & Strobel, A. (2016). What is ethical competence? The role of empathy, personal values, and the five-factor model of personality in ethical decision-making. Journal of Business Ethics, 137(3), 449-474.
