Ethical Decision Making Video Summary

In the short video we watched in class, a lot of valuable information was presented about ethics in a business environment. Although the video, at times, was hard to understand, I still believe that I learned a few things. The presenter throughout the video defined some ethical terms, introduced ethics, “the code of behavior considered correct”, and explained how ethics is important in business. The video stated that Business ethics is basically used to define what is right and what is wrong within a business. A very important reality was also presented in the video, that being that the workforce today has been modelled very differently from those of the past. Another very important thing that the video presented, was the seven steps to Ethical Decision Making, which helps individuals to stop and really think about what the decisions that they have to make at times.

The video introduced the first ethical issue, that is that as our society grew and became more service based, time has become much more valuable, therefore children have begun to relieved of the responsibilities they had in the past, and lost their work ethic. The real issue however, it how this has affected business through …show more content…
The manager of the employee asked him to sign off on a document to allow a non-recyclable product into a “green” organic food store. The manager was basically trying to bribe the employee to sign the document by saying that they would both make a lot of money. Therefore, the employee was presented with an ethical dilemma, should he sign the document and make a lot of money, or should he turn the manager in. The resolution of this skit, seemed to come from the use of the seven steps to ethical decision making. The employee seemed to carefully think out his choices, and decided that the most ethical thing to do was “blow the whistle” and turn in the