Applying ethical dilemmas to professional ethics training and education: Practical implications and future directions

[...]individuals may resist their need for ethics training. To our knowledge, no conceptualizations of unethical behavior account for more nuanced fluctuations in mental state, such as negligence and recklessness. Because intentional misconduct can take the situation beyond the scope of Lefkowitz’s taxonomy, better scientific understanding of these “less-than-intentional” mental states seems especially relevant for applying this framework to training and education. [...]the level of the entity engaging in unethical behavior has important implications. [...]research on group- and organizational-level misconduct is less developed (e.g., Ashforth et al., 2008).