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As part of our mission to promote the exploration of ethics and critical thinking across the discipline we host a Brown Bag Luncheon series. These monthly lunches provide an interdisciplinary forum for university faculty, students, and staff to discuss ethical issues and projects that arise or are underway throughout the academic community.

If you would like to attend and would like us to supply a lunch, please send Adam R. Thompson an email roughly seven days before the scheduled luncheon. Please, indicate any dietary restrictions. And always feel free to bring your own lunch and/or just show up for the conversation.

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Next Brown Bag Luncheon

April 8, 2022

Moralizing Commerce: Moral Judgments of Work and Wealth

Dr. Varkey Titus, Jr. Associate Professor of Management, College of Business

Izuchukwu Mbaraonye Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Management, College of Business

Organizations and organizational leaders are judged on a variety of dimensions, though one largely overlooked in Organizational Studies relates to moral judgements. In this talk, we will discuss our ongoing research on this topic in two distinct “high-identification” contexts: entrepreneurs in craft-based industries, and leaders of non-profit organizations. In the first context, we draw from the Sacred Values Protection Model to theorize that moral judgements about craft-based entrepreneurs may be driven by evaluators’ characterization of the entrepreneurs’ source of success as sacred or mundane. In the second setting, we draw on frameworks on moral reasoning and communication to posit that the evaluation of non-profit leaders may be driven by the leaders’ displays of wealth. We will tie both studies together to discuss the broader implications of moral judgements directed at organizations and their leaders.

April Flier

2021/22 Brown Bag Luncheon Schedule

Schedule

Join us Noon-1:30pm Remotely via Zoom--registration required (Registration Link:

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