22A BUSINESS PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO RESOLVING MORAL DILEMMAS
Employing a Location Map1 to define boundaries of permissible behavior
Introduction and purpose
What are moral dilemmas? How do business practitioners confront them? And how often do they do so? In the article Morality and Ethics that appeared in the July 1942 issue of the Journal of Philosophy, Paul Weiss declared that “A man is moral if he conforms to the standard practices and customs of the group in which he is. He is ethical if he voluntarily obligates himself to live in the light of an ideal.”2
Three decades later, in 1975, James Rest developed a test of moral development known as the Defining Issues Test (DIT). It incorporated Rest’s Four ...
