Ethical Decision-Making in Management

5 Sociological view of ethical decision-making

DOI: 10.4324/9781003255604-8

While ethics calls for the use of philosophy, it proves harder when we have to judge morality as an ordinary person in real-life situations.

5.1 The everyday view on ethical decision-making

While discussing morality, we usually talk about ordinary morality in our day-to-day experiences in terms of what is good, right, wrong, impermissible, unacceptable…. Yet, we are also forced to think about the more philosophical level of morality when the conversation concerns ethical theories, moral reasoning and decision-making, different approaches to assessing and justifying which main principles we can base ourselves on in our work, and the like. At the same time, ...