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Ethical Decision-making Craig Dunn, Ph.D. MEET U.S. program. Ethics Overview. What is the most serious ethical dilemma you have faced in the workplace?. Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making. Ethics is concerned with the following: Good vs Bad Right vs Wrong
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Ethical Decision-making Craig Dunn, Ph.D. MEET U.S. program
Ethics Overview • What is the most serious ethical dilemma you have faced in the workplace? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Ethics is concerned with the following: • Good vs Bad • Right vs Wrong • Fair vs Unfair • Praise vs Blame MEET U.S.
Social Contract Theory Morality consists in the set of rules, governing how people are to treat one another, that rational people will agree to accept, for their mutual benefit, on the condition that others follow those rules as well. MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Deontology: • An ethical theory that holds that actions are right or wrong independent of their consequences MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Utilitarianism: • An ethical theory that holds that actions are right if they produce, or tend to produce, the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of persons MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Justice: • Consists in giving each person his or her due, treating equals equally and unequals unequally • Distributive • Procedural • Compensatory • Retributive MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Ethic of Care: • Asks us to recognize and take seriously the moral worth of relationships, particularly those characterized by caring MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? • Promote caring relationships? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Libertarianism: • Suggest right action consists in maximizing the capacity for free, informed personal choice MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? • Promote caring relationships? • Advance personal liberty? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Virtue theory: • Focus is on achieving our personal ethical ideal–a matter of who we are, not what we do MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? • Promote caring relationships? • Advance personal liberty? • Stimulate personal ideals? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Land Ethic: • A thing is right when it tends to preserve the beauty, stability, and integrity of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? • Promote caring relationships? • Advance personal liberty? • Stimulate personal ideals? • Contribute to sustainability? MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Gather the facts • Does the contemplated action: • Conform to important principles? • Create more good than harm? • Lead to fair outcomes? • Promote caring relationships? • Advance personal liberty? • Stimulate personal ideals? • Contribute to sustainability? • Think creatively about potential actions • Check your gut MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Avoid all appearance of impropriety MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Do not sacrifice the public good for private gain MEET U.S.
Executive Entrepreneurial Training Program Ethical Decision-making • Operate at all times with humility, never underestimating your capacity for self-deception MEET U.S.
Ethical Decision-making MEET U.S.