This document discusses 15 concepts related to ethical decision making:
1) Determine the facts of the situation. 2) Consider our various roles and responsibilities. 3) Compare and weigh alternatives. 4) Monitor and learn from outcomes. 5) Make a decision. Cognitive and perceptual barriers like change blindness, inattentional blindness, and normative myopia can impede ethical decision making.
This document discusses 15 concepts related to ethical decision making:
1) Determine the facts of the situation. 2) Consider our various roles and responsibilities. 3) Compare and weigh alternatives. 4) Monitor and learn from outcomes. 5) Make a decision. Cognitive and perceptual barriers like change blindness, inattentional blindness, and normative myopia can impede ethical decision making.
1. Second step A. Determine the facts of the situation
B. When decision makers fail to notice gradual changes over time
2. Moral imagination
C. Involves considering our role as friend, son, spouse, institutional and
3. Bounded ethically might be institutional as manager, teacher, students that carry a range of expectations, responsibilities and duties 4. Sixth step
D. Involves considering roles and responsibilities of a specific
5. First step profession attorneys, accountants, auditors, financial analysts, and broader questions of social responsibilities and justice 6. Cognitive barriers E. Compare and weight the alternatives 7. Change blindness F. Ignorance, considering limited alternatives, choosing simplified 8. Third step decision rules, satisfying the minimum decision criteria "satisficing", lack of courage, respond to peer pressure 9. Personal decision making G. Identify and consider all of the people affected by a decision often 10. Fifth step called stakeholders
11. Fourth step H. Monitor and learn from the outcomes
I. Creativity in identifying options, consider all the available
12. Inattentional blindness alternatives
13. Perceptual differences
J. Identify if it is an ethical decision or issue
14. Professional decision making
K. Inability to recognize ethical issues or shorsightedness about values
15. Normative myopia
L. Make a decision
M. Demands of the executive life, causes an overreliance on intuition
rather than on intentional deliberation due to no time for reflection
N. How individuals experience and understand situations (this can
explain many ethical disagreements)
O. Focusing failures, missing all of the surrounding details when we