ethical dilemma

Examples of ethical dilemma in the following topics:

• Ethical Conflicts

  • A person who must choose between competing moral imperatives faces an ethical dilemma.
  • Several ideas from political philosophy can guide managers in resolving an ethical dilemma:
  • Justice: Another way to consider an ethical dilemma is by considering the principle that all people should be treated equally.
  • Common good: Finally, resolving an ethical dilemma might mean considering whether one choice is more in keeping with the long-term welfare of all affected parties.
  • Discuss the innate contradictions that often arise in an ethical dilemma, where two or more different moral imperatives conflict

• Applying the Decision Tree

  • Decision tree analysis can be a useful tool for evaluating ethical decisions.
  • Decision trees can be applied to ethical considerations.
  • Consider an ethical dilemma involving a colleague.
  • The top box of the decision tree would state "Colleague Dilemma."
  • Decision trees therefore support the evaluation process and can help clarify often-complex ethical dilemmas.

• Training Ethical Decision Making

  • Organizations use compliance and ethics programs to demonstrate and reinforce their commitment to ethical practices.
  • On a more practical level, a compliance and ethics program supports the organization's business objectives, identifies the boundaries of legal and ethical behavior, and establishes a system to alert management when the organization is getting close to (or crossing) a legal or ethical boundary.
  • Most ethics training focuses on clarifying and communicating an organization's ethical code so employees understand what is expected.
  • Some ethics training will also cover the resources available to help employees when they face an ethical dilemma or suspect that someone in the organization has made an ethical breach.
  • In every type of business, ethics are needed to keep business standards high.

• Managers Role in Ethical Conduct

  • Managers are responsible for upholding the ethical code and helping others to do so as well.
  • Lastly, managers make themselves available as a resource to counsel and assist employees who face ethical dilemmas or who suspect an ethical breach.
  • Of course, managers are responsible for upholding ethical standards in their own actions and decisions.
  • In addition to following the organization's ethical code, managers may be obligated to follow a separate professional code of ethics, depending on their role, responsibilities, and training.
  • The manager has an important role in maintaining ethical conduct in a firm, but a firm's ethics cannot simply be based on a "manager to the rescue" approach.

• Applying the Ethical Decision Tree

  • Decision trees are useful analytic tools for considering the ethical dimensions of a decision.
  • Ethics are moral principles that guide a person's behavior.
  • All decisions have an ethical or moral dimension for a simple reason—they have an effect on others.
  • Decision trees can be applied to ethical matters as well.
  • If confronted with an ethical dilemma, creating a decision tree is a useful method for analyzing what the potential outcomes of each action would be, and ultimately, how to proceed.

• Corporate Policies

  • Companies often have corporate ethics statements or codes that identify ethical expectations and offer guidance.
  • It is hoped that having such a policy will lead to greater ethical awareness, consistency in application, and the avoidance of ethical disasters.
  • Jones and Parker write, "Most of what we read under the name business ethics is either sentimental common sense, or a set of excuses for being unpleasant. " Many manuals are procedural form filling exercises unconcerned about the real ethical dilemmas.
  • For instance, the US Department of Commerce ethics program treats business ethics as a set of instructions and procedures to be followed by 'ethics officers'.
  • Some others claim being ethical just for the sake of it.

• Ethics Training

  • Moral sensitivity, which is "the ability to see an ethical dilemma, including how our actions will affect others."
  • The ability to think through moral issues and dilemmas, then, requires an awareness of a set of moral and ethical values; the capacity to think objectively and rationally about what may be an emotional issue; the willingness to take a stand for what is right, even in the face of opposition; and the fortitude and resilience to maintain one's ethical and moral standards.
  • Explain the role of ethical moral reasoning in the business environment

• Journalistic Standards

  • Journalism ethics and standards describe the principles of ethics and good practice journalists adopt in response to specific challenges.
  • Journalism ethics and standards describe the principles of ethics and good practice journalists adopt in response to specific challenges.
  • Historically and currently, journalists consider the subset of media ethics as their professional "code of ethics" or "canons of journalism".
  • Codes of journalism are designed to guide journalists through numerous ethical challenges, such as conflict of interest.
  • This principle of limitation creates a practical and ethical dilemma by acknowledging that some attention must be given to the negative consequences of full disclosure.

• Moral Leadership

  • The ethics leaders exhibit reflects on their organizations, as well on themselves.
  • Acting ethically preserves an organization's legitimacy as it uses societal resources to achieve its aims.
  • Laws establish clear boundaries of what is acceptable, but ethics often involves more ambiguous questions.
  • These dilemmas are where the judgment of a leader comes into play.
  • Apply ethical standards to leadership perspectives, explaining the relevance of integrity and responsibility to leadership

• Personal ethics: four ethical approaches

  • From the earliest moments of recorded human consciousness, the ethical discipline has entailed four fundamental approaches, often called ethical decision-making frameworks: Utilitarian Ethics (outcome based), Deontological Ethics (duty based), Virtue Ethics (virtue based), and Communitarian Ethics (community based).
  • Today we call his approach to ethics virtue ethics.
  • In a constitutional democracy like ours with a fundamental commitment to "the non-establishment of religion", the Divine Imperialist is stuck with a difficult dilemma: either to make all ethical inquiry "personal" (that is, no social or political value deliberation), or take the ayatollah approach and bring no state into conformity with the revealed will of God.
  • To tell a story is to invite participation from the hearer, and it is to also a means of communicating the richness and complexity of human dilemmas.
  • The narrative invites the hearer into the complexity of issues involved in personal, professional and organizational dilemmas, and provides a road through the complexity to the simplicity on the other side.