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Topic4:MakingDecisionsinBusinessEthics:DescriptiveEthics

Businessethicsisnotjustaboutworkingoutwhatistherightthingtodo--normativetheories.

Itisalsoaboutunderstandinghowandwhypeoplemakecertainmoralchoicesandwhythey

actastheydoinethicalsituations--descriptivetheories/behaviouralethics

新的观点和表明，Palmer2013：moralundoings道德其实很普遍，而且对错的

界线很模糊，犯错的很可能是平常人或者有道德的人，而且可以发生在任何组织内。

Whatisanethicaldecision?

Ethicaldecisionsareconcernedwithajudgmentaboutrightandwrong.

Basiccharacteristicsofanethicaldecision:

a)Thedecisionislikelytohavesignificanteffectonothers

b)Thedecisionislikelytobecharacterizedbychoice,inthatalternativecoursesofactionare

open.Amoraldecisionrequiresthatwehaveachoice.Whendecisionmakersactually

recognizethattheyhaveethicalchoices,thentheyfaceanethicaldilemma.

c)Thedecisionisperceivedasethicallyrelevantbyoneormoreparties.Regardlessof

whetherthedecision-makerseesadecisionashavingethicalcontent,ifothersdo,thenthe

decisionimmediatelyincurssomedegreeofethically.

Modelsofethicaldecision-making:

Allmodelsseektorepresenttwothings:thedifferentstagesandinfluences

Rest’sModel:

Rest’smodel—basedonafour-stageprocessofethicaldecision-making,thesestagesare

intendedtobedistinct:distinguishesbetweenwantingandknowing,knowinganddoing.

Problems:

a)Manystagesandinfluencesareinterdependentandcannotbebrokendownintodiscrete

units

b)ModelsareoriginatedintheUSsothatgiveanationalorculturalbias

Researchevidenceshowsdiscrepanciesbetweenintentandactualbehaviorssomeethical

decisio