Ethical Decision Making

Overview/Description
 What is an ethical decision? Many studies show that businesspeople have an intuitive understanding of right and wrong, but that they find difficulty in explaining their judgments. This course provides the conceptual framework for discussing business ethics and the tool kit for making ethical decisions.

Target Audience
 All employees who face ethical decision-making responsibility

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Ethical Dilemmas

  • identify the benefits of recognizing and dealing with ethical dilemmas.
  • match common ethical problems to examples of their related behaviors.
  • determine the type of ethical problem inherent in a given situation.
  • match strategies for removing obstacles to ethical decision making with examples.
  • apply strategies for removing obstacles to ethical decision making in a given scenario.

    • The Ethical Decision Process

  • identify benefits of using a structured process for making ethical decisions and reinforcing preferred ethical values.
  • match perspectives for making ethical decisions with examples.
  • sequence steps for making an ethically defensible decision.
  • follow the steps to arrive at an ethically defensible decision in a given situation.
  • match strategies for reinforcing preferred ethical values with examples.
  • apply strategies for reinforcing preferred values in ethical behaviors in a given scenario.

    • Course Number: PD0171