A mosaic of personal ethical decision making in learning organizations

Abstract

According to the Free Dictionary (2010), “a mosaic is a picture or decorative design made by setting small coloured pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface, or a composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial or photographs”. Using the mosaic metaphor is the authors’ intention to discuss four levels of arguing: 1. personal ethical decision making in learning organizations; 2. construct the mosaic for each organizational group (top management, middle management and workers); 3. if it is possible to draw a behavioural pattern of the mosaic by organizational group (top management, middle management and workers); 4. to acknowledge the truthiness about organizational culture in knowledge environments not be a “spherical” concept (metaphorical symbolism for perfect and constant) (Costa, Prior & Rogerson, 2009a), which will reflect a comparison among groups behavioural patterns.