Ethical Tradeoffs in Modern Organizations
Organizations face ethical tradeoffs: profit vs stakeholder welfare, short-term gains vs sustainability, efficiency vs fairness, growth vs environment.
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Organizations face ethical tradeoffs: profit vs stakeholder welfare, short-term gains vs sustainability, efficiency vs fairness, growth vs environment.
Ethical decision making weighs right vs wrong using moral frameworks like consequentialism (judge by outcomes) or deontology (follow universal rules).
Values act as decision filters that determine what you consider, ignore, and prioritize. Most values operate unconsciously until they conflict.
Consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and care ethics each answer hard questions differently. Learn which to use—and what their conflicts reveal.
Ethics studies right and wrong actions. Major frameworks: Consequentialism judges by outcomes, deontology by duties, virtue ethics by character traits.
Who benefits and who's harmed? Is it fair to everyone? Would it be acceptable if made public? Does it align with stated values?
Values are core principles guiding choices like honesty, family, or achievement. Not preferences like pizza, but priorities about what matters most in life.