Kant's Categorical Imperative Model Of Ethical Decision Making

Ethical Decision Making Model Ethics plays a very strong role in all forms of communication. From a conversation being held between family members to a supervisor speaking to a lower level employee, there is a code of ethics involved. Ethics is something that has been engrained into us from the time we were first brought into this world. It continued to be shaped and molded through family experiences and interactions. These experiences that we have from adolescents to adulthood have shaped our beliefs and what we determine to be right and wrong or appropriate and inappropriate. When it comes to conversation, these learned behavioral boundaries are what helps guide us with having what is considered to be appropriate etiquette within these interactions. Of course, what is appropriate in one …show more content…
Keeping information confidential is apparent in most business related environments. For example, teachers should not be speaking about their students out in public. Doctors should not be sharing patient information with another not approved by the patient. Lawyers should not be discussing their client with others not involved in the case. All three of these examples require confidentiality. I feel that Kant 's Categorical Imperative model of ethical decision making is the best way to approach a communications related ethical problem involving confidentiality. If you use Kant 's model when approached with this ethical dilemma due to self-preservation you would not share this information. As a human, we have certain duties we should uphold, understanding confidentiality as being a personal matter that should stay quiet. If you apply Kant 's model you would remain morally correct as you would be acting in a manner that you would be willing to have everyone else act in the same situation. "Right is right and must always be done, regardless of the circumstance" (Ethical Decision,