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Guidelines to Opening up Spaces for Shaping and Training Moral Judgement in Organizations. A Proposal Based on Neuro(Advances)

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One of the aims of organisational ethics is to guide the way organisations shape, develop and train the moral judgement of those who work for them. The last three decades have witnessed a revolution brought about by three new fields of study, neuroethics, neuroeducation and organisational neuroscience, and these have made significant advances in our knowledge of the neural-cerebral foundations of moral judgement. Drawing on these insights, the aim of this chapter is to propose that organisations create spaces for participation and deliberation in order that the critical moral character of these organisations can be forged more effectively, and the knowledge of the neuro disciplines put into practice.

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    This study is part of the Scientific Research and Technological Development Project FFI2016-76753-C2-2-P, financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España, and part of the work undertaken by the research group of excellence PROMETEOII/2014/082 funded by the Generalitat Valenciana.

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González-Esteban, E. (2019). Guidelines to Opening up Spaces for Shaping and Training Moral Judgement in Organizations. A Proposal Based on Neuro(Advances). In: Calvo, P., Gracia-Calandín, J. (eds) Moral Neuroeducation for a Democratic and Pluralistic Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22562-9_9

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