Ethical decision making helps people make difficult choices when faced with an ethical dilemma, a situation in which there is no clear right or wrong answer. For example, would it be right for a CEO to keep a contractual bonus when the business is making lower-paid colleagues redundant?
Ethical decision making typically examines three perspectives: the ethic of obedience; the ethic of care; and the ethic of reason. The ethic of obedience looks not only at the letter of the law, but also the...
