Ethical Decision-Making

The purpose of this paper is to define and discuss the elements of an ethically defensible decision. I am to answer the questions: what are the ground rules?, what could they be?, what should they be?, what are the ethical implications of the decision?, and how might the decision change the ground rules?
In the textbook “Management: Leading People and Organizations in the 21st Century” tells us that ethics refers to “the principle of conduct governing an individual or a group, and specifically to the standards you use to decide what your conduct should be” (pg. 70). In online resource “Holistic Education Network” tells us that ethical decision making refers to “the process of evaluating and choosing among alternatives in a manner consistent with ethical principles” (http://www.neat.tas.edu.au/hent/world/rss/files/ethics/ethical_decision.htm).
Ethical decision making is weighing the options of right verse wrong. The ground rules for making ethical decisions, are �...