Moral Intensity - Six Components

[cschow]

Dear all,
anyone can help to define these six components:

Concentration of effort
Proximity
Temporal immediacy
Magnitude of consequence
Social consensus
Probability of effect

and how can they affect the ethical behaviour.
thanks

[dragoon_alex]

I'm using Kaplan book, and in my article it's shows seven position on social responsibility

Pristine capitalist
This group people just think about make profits

Expedient
This group peole will only do the benefit for social when they also got benefits

Social contract position
This group people will do a lots for social

Social ecologist
This group will try do the best for social

Socialist
This group will make the objective for social in organization

Radical feminist
This group people believe all the people in the world have same right

Deep ecologist
This group of people believe that everything in the world are equal

Exams usually come as case study and give you the details about a person, and ask you which group he belong to.

Hope these information useful to you.

[cschow]

No. you are talking about the "position" of social responsibility.
The mentioned six components are talking about the ethical behaviour which can affect professional behaviour.
In my Kaplan text book, they are in Chapter 14 Ethical Characteristic of Professionalism

[ahyee1021]

1. magnitude of consequences:greater the sums of harms,greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg: there are more and more cases of Aflu,people will be more concern about the flu.

2. social consequences:greater the degree of social agreement about the harm, greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg:everyone knows that illegal is bad but unethical is not illegal,so if people has high degree of social agreement about unethical is illegal,greater intensity people feel toeards that issue

3. probability of effect:greater probability of effect,greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg:if there is evidence shown that 99.99% who smoke will sure die with cancer,then greater intensity people feel towards that issue

4. temporal immediacy:lesser the time interval until expected time,greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg:if there is evidence shown that those people who smoke will be die with cancer in three months period,greater intensity people feel towards that issue

5. proximity: nearer to those harm, greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg:mexico people have feel Aflu is near to them, greater intensity people feel towards that issue compared to those countries does not have Aflu.

6. concentration of effort: greater harm to a smaller numbers,greater intensity people feel towards that issue

eg: if there are 1000 people lost $100,greater intensity people feel towards that issue compared to there are only 5 people lost $100