CHAPTER 3
Ethical Foundations for Organizational Decision Making at the Operational and Strategic Levels
Thomas G. Pittz and Melissa Cast
New Mexico State University
Introduction
The field of business ethics is routinely bifurcated along two lines—normative ethics, which guides the behavior of individuals, and descriptive ethics, which is concerned with explicating and predicting the behavior of individuals (O’Fallon and Butterfield 2005). Both aspects are important but this review utilizes normative ethics in order to provide a framework for effective teaching of the discipline.
The objective of teaching a course in ethics is to equip the student with the ability to recognize and address ethical questions, and to do so with intelligence and ...
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