ethics and decision making
Ethics and Decision Making Business ethics have been a major problem area of dispute, especially now in the 21st century. Some assert that business and ethics do not and should not go together. Simply stated, business ethics is an oxymoron. Managers have had severe conflicts between choosing whether a decision is “good or bad” and/or “right or wrong“, and what outcomes will come from making these choices. The general definition of ethics agreed upon by philosophers, scholars, business people, etc. ... This conduct is individual to each and every person making various types of decisions. ... In any event, the decision or answer to a problem is left solely up to the moral thinking of the individual. Management has taken the very simplistic idea of business ethics to entirely brand new heights. For many, just the word “ethics” has spawned the relationship to some sort of religion because its very contents are preached, such as the preaching of the Gospels in the Catholic Church. Business people have some how formed the correlation of altering their own practices with company ethics and business decision making. ... “A lack of ethics at the top very quickly gives the message that it is OK to cut corners, fudge numbers -- whatever it takes to show profit” (Emery). Though many employees and workers try to make the right decision in their business ventures, there are, of course, those who blatantly act out of misguided or “bad” intentions. Those making these types of decisions are fully aware that problem-solving strategies are ideas in direct conflict with their own moral standards.