Lily Morse

I am an Assistant Professor of Management at West Virginia University.

I study how organizations can reduce unethical behavior in the workplace. My first research stream examines how employee attitudes, biases, and individual differences affect the decision to engage in misconduct. My second research stream explores ways to improve the ethical decision making of AI systems in the workplace.

My work has been featured in journal outlets such as:

• Academy of Management Perspectives
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Journal of Research in Personality
• MIS Quarterly
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Research in Organizational Behavior

Companies

• Assistant Professor West Virginia University (2019)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Boston College (2018 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business (2016 — 2018)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business (2011 — 2016)
• BA The University of Texas at Austin (2007 — 2011)

Publications

Morse, L., Teodorescu, M. H. M., Awwad, Y., & Kane, G. C. (2021). Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms. Journal of Business Ethics. Link to online advance publication

Aven, B., Morse, L., & Iorio, A. (2021). The Valley of Trust: The Effect of Relational Strength on Monitoring Quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 166, 179-193. Link to article Special Issue on “Behavioral Field Evidence on Ethics and Misconduct”

Teodorescu, M. H. M., Morse, L., Awwad, Y., & Kane, G. C. (2021). Failures of Fairness in Automation Require A Deeper Understanding of Human-ML Augmentation. MIS Quarterly, 45(3b), 1483-1499. Link to article *Co-first authorship: both authors contributed equally. Special Issue on “Managing AI”

Morse, L., & Cohen, T. R. (2020). The Importance of the HEXACO Model in Behavioral Business Ethics: Comment on Ashton & Lee (2020). European Journal of Personality, 34(4), 535-536. Link to article Response to Ashton & Lee’s (2020) Special Issue Article “Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure–And Why Those Objections Fail” Link

Morse, L., Keeney, J., & Adkins, C. (2019). Morality in Groups. In D. W. Wasieleski & J. Weber (Eds.), Business Ethics (pp. 181-209). Emerald Publishing Ltd. Link to book

Morse, L., & Cohen, T. R. (2019). Moral Character in Negotiation. Academy of Management Perspectives, 33(1), 1-14. Link to article

Morse, L., & Cohen, T. R. (2017). Virtues and Vices in Workplace Settings: The Role of Moral Character in Predicting Counterproductive and Citizenship Behaviors. In A. Sisón, G. Beabout, & I. Ferrero (Eds.), Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics (pp. 761-771). Springer. Link to article

Cohen, T. R., & Morse, L. (2014). Moral character: What It Is and What It Does. Research in Organizational Behavior, 34, 43-61. Link to article

Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L., & Kim, Y. (2014). Moral Character in the Workplace. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 943-963. Link to article Received ‘Outstanding Article Award’ from International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)

Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L., & Kim, Y. (2013). Agreement and Similarity in Self-Other Perceptions of Moral Character. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 816-830. Link to article