Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

THE PROCESS OF MAKING GOOD ETHICAL DECISIONS

To make good ethical decisions, we should have a belief in the importance of ethics, an ethical sensitivity to the implications of the various choices we have, the ability to evaluate facts at our disposal which may be incomplete, complex, contentious and even ambiguous and the skill to implement effectively the ethical decisions we make. If these are the underlying requirements, what is the process one has to follow to make good ethical decisions?

Recognize and Identify the Kind of Ethical Issue You Need to Resolve

First and foremost, we have to recognize the ethical issue and then seek answers to questions relating to it such as the nature of the issue, the conflict it has raised and how the decision ...