Decision-making making in an organization is a process that necessitates ethical reasoning in order to making optimal decisions. Managers and other stakeholders of the organization have an obligation to act ethically and give ethical decisions. The role of ethical reasoning in decision-making process is to enhance self-respect, honesty, fairness, integrity, and courage amongst other positive values (Schermerhorn & Bachrach, 2017). Ethical reasoning makes stakeholders or managers earn some self-respect from other workers. An organization can only trust a stakeholder who gives honest opinions. Dishonest opinions may amount to unethical reasoning. Fairness in ethical reasoning ensures that people make decisions that are not for self-interest but …show more content…
An effective ethical reasoning recognizes the problem and sticks to honesty, that is, uses facts rather than otherwise. Moreover, the reasoning should be allowable and not against the laws, both business law and the national laws (David, 2016). The reasoning should be having good will and not an intention to hurt certain people and benefit certain individuals. A good ethical decision gives direction to the management team in the way forward, how to solve an issues, or what to do from a point of confusion. Every reasoning ought to be something realistic and …show more content…
The first step is definition of organizational objectives. At this step, the management team identifies the goals, mission, and visions of the organization and how possible they are to achieve. Secondly, determining the capability of company to meet its objectives (Schermerhorn & Bachrach, 2014). This may involves assessing the available resources and business conditions that would make it possible to accomplish organizational goals. Moreover, the management may prepare and plan for the future conditions. That is planning for the future and getting ready to meet the challenges. In addition, consideration of the available alternatives and choosing the most effective that would improve business performance. Ultimately, implementation of the plan and evaluation of the results. Execution of plans makes them pragmatic and assessment of the results enables for noting the problems for future corrections (Pieterse & Caniels, 2012). In service related industry, the third the first and the third process are important for managers because they are critical and would either cause the success or failure of a service
We have one resident in the long-term facility who has stage four cancer of spinal cord and he has been suffering from intense pain. Every time when I enter his room, he cries and implore to the god that he can minimize his suffering. He has prescription of hydromorphone 8 mg every 4 hourly PRN , oxycodone 5 mg every 6 hourly and 50 mcg of fentanyl path change every 3rd day. After giving all scheduled and PRN medicine his pain level remains same as before. When I see that patients I feel like to give highest dose of medicine as well as alternative pain management therapy so that he can have some comfort but ethically I have no right to do that. He is hospice but he has no comfort at all. Following are the nine steps of Uustal ethical decision making model.
Ethical decision-making is the responsibility of everyone, regardless of position or level within an organization. Interestingly, the importance of stressing employee awareness, improving decisions, and coming to an ethical resolution are the greatest benefits to most companies in today’s world (Weber, 2015).
The method of ethical decision making which was developed by Dr. Cathryn A. Baird presented two components contained in all ethical decisions which are; The Four ethical Lenses and the 4+1 Decision process. The Four Ethical Lenses issue claims that different ethical theories and the means in which we tend to approach the situations which form part of our ethical traditions are looked at in four different perspectives. From each perspective there are different values on which to decide whether the action taken is either ethical or not and each lens also lays emphasis on determining whether the decision made is of ethical requirement. In the 4+1 Decision Process, people who are responsible for making final decisions in an organization do it using four specific decision making steps and eventually will end up with one extra decision which gives a chance to reflect. The 4+1 decision process allows the decision makers to give solutions when faced with complicated ethical issues (John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, 2000).
Abortion has been a political, social, and personal topic for many years now. The woman’s right to choose has become a law that is still debated, argued and fought over, even though it has been passed. This paper will examine a specific example where abortion is encouraged, identify the Christian world views beliefs and resolution as well as the consequences of such, and compare them with another option.
How do we make ethical decision-making when to help clients with their ethical dilemmas without going against the ACA code of ethic. As a counselor, you have to make sure you don 't oppose your moral and value, toward the clients it best that both your client and you work together to make the decision together where it is the client thought, and you support their opinion.
Ethics in business is a highly important concept, as it can affect a company’s profits, salaries paid to employees and CEOs, and public opinion, among many other aspects of a business. Ethics can be enforced by company policies and guidelines, set a precedent when a company is faced with an important decision, and are also evolving thanks to new technology and situations that arise due to technology usage. Businesses have a duty to maintain their ethical responsibilities and also to help their employees enforce these responsibilities in and out of the workplace. However, ethics and the foundation for them are not always black and white. There are many different ethical theories, however Utilitarianism, Kant’s Deontological ethics, and Virtue ethics are three of the most well known theories in existence. Each theory is distinct in that it has a different quality used to determine ethicality and allows for a person to choose which system of ethics works best with both the situation and his or her personal ethical preferences.
Workplace ethics engages in judgements and collective agreements regarding a suitable guide of behaviour. The ethical decision making framework (EDM) presents, business decision is ethical or unethical.EDM provides an indication of traditional decision making process and issues that manipulate ethical decisions. Employees tend to fraud because they can experience the unfair treatments or situation that they face. Manages may ask employee to work long hours, and then they can take additional time off. Good performance leads to remunerations and appreciation managers than workers.
In the profession of Dental Hygiene, ethical dilemmas are nearly impossible to avoid, and most hygienists at some point in their professional life will have to face and answer ethical questions. Some ethical conflicts the dental hygienist may encounter can be quite complex and an obvious answer may not be readily available. In the article Ethical Decision Making, Phyllis Beemsterboer suggests an ethical decision-making model can aide the dental hygienist in making appropriate decisions when confronted with an ethical situation, and that the six-step model can serve dental hygienists in making the most advantageous ethical decision (2010).
I have chosen the business profession topic of higher education administration. I am extremely familiar with this profession; as it is the job that I currently hold. There is a plethora of different activities and task that are dealt with on a daily basis within this profession. Some of these items consist of assisting both full and part time staff and faculty, maintaining order within budgets and finance, including all purchase orders and check requests, facilitating student awards, including scholarships, staffing and training within the department, as well as dealing with public policy and laws within the college. It is immensely obvious that this job would keep anyone busy. This alone is one of the reasons I love this profession so much. Each day brings something new, and important group of items to accomplish. Anyone who holds this job, would go into work everyday knowing that the tasks that they are about to perform, will create a difference to not only to the departments and its students, but will also make a difference within the entire college. This person alone has the responsibility of making ethical decisions every single day as well as watching out for others who may need help being pointed in the proper ethical direction based on their knowledge of the school’s ethics plans that have been put in place. If someone were unaware of the ethical standards in this profession, there is a lot of room for things to head in a corrupt direction rather quickly.
For this paper Washington Mutual has been selected to show how the ethical decision making process can be achieve. When it comes to business ethics in the workplace Washington Mutual has designed what can be considered a well balanced workplace with behaviors that are aligned with their moral values and business ethics. Business ethics are sometimes depicted as resolving conflicts where one option can appear to be the correct choice. There are many different ethical dilemmas that are faced by managers and leaders everyday that are highly complex and have no clear choice or guidelines to assist in making the choices for resolution. There are times when an employee has to decide whether or not to cheat, lie, steal, or break their contract. These ethical decisions are real-life situations where they are forced to make on a daily basis. This is why it is ultimately important that all employee know the six steps to ethical decision making that the company uses.
An organization needs to adhere to ethics in order to effectively implement its mission, vision, and objectives in a way in which offers a solid foundation to management and their subordinates to properly develop and implement its strategies. By doing so, the organization as a whole is essentially subscribing to one commonality that directs all of the actions of the employees of the organization. Additionally, it assists in preventing such employees from divergence in regard to the proposed strategic guideline. Ethics additionally ensures that a strategic plan is developed in accordance to the interests of the appropriate stakeholders of the organization, both internal and external (Jin & Drozdenko, 2010). Likewise, corporate governance that stems from various regulatory parties makes it necessary for organizations to maintain a high degree of ethical standards; this is done by incorporating ethics within the organization’s strategic plan so as to foster a positive corporate image for the stakeholders and general public (Min-Dong Paul, 2009).
Making good ethical decisions requires a trained sensitivity to ethical issues and a practiced method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact our choice of a course of action. Having a method for ethical decision making is absolutely essential. When practiced regularly, the method becomes so familiar that we work through it automatically without consulting the specific steps.
Beginning in the 1930’s, Brazil began to develop itself as an industrialized nation, building factories, inviting foreign investment, and moving away from traditional agriculture. As a result, many displaced agricultural families and impoverished workers moved to cities, settling in huge shantytowns known as favelas. By examining the causes of Brazil’s urban migration, as well as the development of and lifestyle within favelas, one can attain a better understanding of the overall picture of Brazilian internal migration. There are many factors that led to and sustained the migration of Brazilians from a rural to an urban setting. The major factor that originally kicked off Brazilian “rural exodus” was increased industrialization within the country
7.1 Professional Ethics Dilemma Surya is an 18-year-old Indian American who struggles with issues of gender identity, sexuality, self-harm, self-acceptance, depression, and anxiety. Surya lives with her parents and older sister Akila in Madison, WI. Akila is still in elementary school and is very girly and feminine presenting. This is in stark contrast to Surya.
However, when in business a person confronted a problem it is necessary that he utilize ethical reasoning. The ethical reasoning requires that the individual evaluate its own moral and ethical views in order to make a decision. This reasoning primarily focuses on two crucial features. The first is known as Duty-Based Ethics, which is concentrated in doing