Abstract
A study that examined factors that could be expected to influence the moral reasoning of managers at work is presented. Two hundred forty-three managers from 4 manufacturing firms participated in the study. Factors examined were the perceived ethical climate of the organization, as measured by the Ethical Climate Questionnaire, and the extent an individual focuses on the situation in deciding how to behave, as measured by the Self-Monitoring Scale. Moral reasoning, as the dependent variable, was measured using the Defining Issues Test. Results show that contrary to expectations, neither perceived ethical climate nor self-monitoring are related to managers' moral reasoning. Several interesting descriptive finding are obtained, including the the finding that age was negatively related to moral reasoning. Implicatons for further research are discussed.