The Impact of Ethics on Decision Making

Introduction Suppose that you are working for a well-known construction company. Your next project is a huge private school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Currently, you and your teammates are gathering the necessary paperwork, communicating with the owners regarding material and working out all the essential details. During one of these production meetings, going over the design and all the calculations, you suddenly realize that this design is very limited, and the school classrooms will only …

…prove to be essential in professional decision-making. The basis for all professional ethics is trust among the employees and employers, if here is no trust the company will fall apart. The employees should not be afraid to come to their boss with a problem, worried that it may cause a dilemma in ethics. They should develop and uphold the trust among each other and see to it that every decision is ethically and morally acceptable.