Ethical Decision MakingCritical Thinking: Strategies in Decision MakingEthical Decision MakingIn today's personal and business world, ethical decisions are made daily. Most of these decisions are based on basic business rules. The others are based on personal ground rules. All decisions can have a set of ground rules that help us determine whether our decision is ethical or unethical. Every decision, whether based on company or personal rules, will have its implications. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the impacts of ethics on decision making, I will discuss the elements of an ethically defensible decision, I will define what the ground rules are; what they could be and what they should be, discuss the ethical implications of the decision, and explain how the decision could change the ground rules. Ethics is a standard that tells us how we should behave. It is based on moral duty and includes a code of values ​​that guides our choices and actions. No person with a strong character lives without such a code. Ethics is more than doing what you have to do. It's doing what you're supposed to do. Because acting ethically sometimes means not doing what we want to do, ethics is often an exercise in self-control. Ethics involves seeing the difference between right and wrong. It is a commitment to do what is right, good and appropriate. Because doing the right thing can cost us more than we would like to pay in terms of friendship, money, prestige, or pleasure, practicing ethics, like exercising character, requires courage. Ethics refers to principles that define behavior as right, good, and appropriate. Such principles do not always dictate a single "moral" course of action, but they provide a means of evaluating and deciding between competitors... middle of paper...ttp%3a%2f%2fwww.alonben-meir.com% 2fessay%2fethic_dec_making.html&qte=0&o=0Josephson Institute of Ethics. (2002). Making Ethical Decisions. Retrieved February 14, 2004, from the World Wide Web at http://web.ask.com/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.com%2fweb%3fq%3dethically%2bdefensible%2bdecision%26o% 3d0%26page%3d1&q=ethically+defensible+decision&u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.wc.ask.com%2fr %3ft%3dan%26s%3da%26uid%3d0F5F8788ACA9AE204%26sid%3d13BFE788ACA9AE204%26qid%3dEDE06 BB086F9304CAA78A11203820368%26io% 3d0%26sv%3dza5cb0db0%26o%3d0%26ask%3detically%2bdefensible%2bdecision%26uip%3 dacc0e994%26en%3dte%26eo%3d-100%26pt%3dDoing%2bEthical%2bDecisions%2b--%2bTOC%26ac%3d24 % 26qs%3d1%26pg%3d1%26ep%3d1%26te_par%3d102%26te_id%3d%26u%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.josephsoninstitute.org%2fMED%2fMED-intro%2btoc.htm&s=a&bu=http%3a % 2f%2fwww.josephsoninstitute.org%2fMED%2fMED-intro%2btoc.htm&qte=0&o=0