Ethics

Ethical Decision Making
Ethics can be defined as a set of principles of right conduct, or a theory or system of moral values. High ethical values are very important to have as individuals, and even more important to have within a corporation. Yet ethics do not always seem to get the focus that they deserve. All one has to do is turn their attention to “last year’s high-profile scandals [that] cast a shadow over corporate America, reminding us about the consequences of unethical behavior and shady business practices” (Fetrow 54) to realize that high moral ethics are not getting the attention that it deserves. This paper will deal with an ethically defensible decision and will answer the following questions based around this decision; 1.) What are the ground rules?, 2.) What could they be?, 3.) What should they be?, 4.) What are the ethical implications of the decision?, and 5.) How might the decision change the ground rules?
The situation that I will be writing about deals w...