Ethical Decision-Making

Nowadays, public trust is rather shaken in the USA because of recent corporate scandals. Therefore, ethics should play important role in decision-making process as it gives thinkers an opportunity to make such a decision won’t oppose anybody’s suggestions or preferences. It is necessary to improve decision-making process because it plays crucial role for building ethical organizational environment. Ethics is defined as a standard of human behavior that offers how to act in many situations with friends, family members, employees, business people, professionals, etc.

It is necessary to mention that to make really ethical decision means to use trained sensitivity to ethical issues. Moreover, making ethical decision involves, firstly, explorations of ethical aspects of a decision to be made up. It means that it is required to weight all proposed considerations being able to affect human’s choice. Therefore, ethical decision-making method is an essential part of a thinking process. If a person needs to make difficult ethical decision, he should rely on other team members meaning he has to discuss and dialogue with others.

Thus, the article enhances understanding of the Tyco International scandal because the authors discuss main faults and violations of ethical standards. Moreover, they provide innovative model for dealing with ethical decisions in contemporary business environment. The goal of the strategy is to ensure that making up decision will serve organizational needs, not the needs of particular individuals.

Strategic Collaboration for Ethical Leadership recommends relying on the following principles: trust and evaluation. Actually, ethical decision-making model allows organizations to conceptualize and solve different ethical dilemmas and conflicting situations. According to model, organizations should combine empowerment evaluation, mentoring and appreciative inquiry. In such a way companies involved in international ethical scandals will be able to restore public trust.

References

Ncube, L., & Wasburn, M. (2006). Strategic Collaboration for Ethical Leadership: A Mentoring Framework for Business and Organizational Decision Making. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 13, 1, 77-93.