Ethical Decision Making and Behavior

7. Ethical Decision Making and Behavior As we practice resolving dilemmas we find ethics to be less a goal than a pathway, less a destination than a trip, less an inoculation than a process. Ethicist Rushworth Kidder WHAT'S AHEAD. This chapter surveys the components of Ethical Behavior moral sensitivity, moral judgment, moral motivation, and moral character and introduces systematic approaches to Ethical problem solving. We'll take a look at four Decision - Making formats: Kidder's Ethical checkpoints, the SAD formula, Nash's 12 questions, and the case study method. After presenting each approach, I'll discuss its relative advantages and disadvantages. U nderstanding how we make and follow through on Ethical decisions is the first step to Making better choices; taking a systematic approach is the second. We'll explore both of these steps in this chapter. After examining the Ethical Decision - Making process, we'll see how guidelines or formats can guide our Ethical deliberations. 235.

action—and then determined the steps that produce such behavior. He con-cluded that ethical action is the result of four psychological subprocesses: (1) moral sensitivity (recognition), (2) moral judgment, (3) moral focus (motivation), and (4) moral character.2 Component 1: Moral Sensitivity (Recognition)

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