Kohlberg's theory outlines six stages of moral development within three different levels. In recent years, Kohlberg's theory has been criticized as being Western-centric with a bias toward men (he ...

Kohlberg's theories can help business owners and managers assess how their employees and other key stakeholders interact with the organization and its leadership at various stages of growth.

Kohlberg found that people will give different answers, but their reasons for giving these answers are different at different stages. Only very young children are at stage one or stage two.

[2] Stages five and six are called postconventional ... The son of a Jewish father, Kohlberg participated during the 1940s in the struggle to save lives of persecuted Jews in Europe, and in ...