Ethical Decision-Making Models in Coaching

Ethical decision making is a nonlinear process that is principally cognitive in nature. Recurrent ethical thinking should be at the forefront of the coach’s mind and fundamental to the operation of ethical decision making. Therefore it is reasonable to say that ethical decision making is intertwined with the process of coaching.

Many models have been proposed to help the executive coach make ethical decisions, some of which have been critiqued. For ethical decision making, it is advisable that one adopt or devise a framework of the series of processes necessary to analyze the problem. It is likely that the personal principles already developed will be used as part of this process, yet as the dilemma ...

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