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Components of Ethical Decision Making

Ethical decision making requires being aware of your own and your agencys
ethical values and applying them whenever necessary. It involves being sensitive
to the impact of your decisions and being able to evaluate complex, ambiguous,
and/or incomplete facts. Three components of ethical decision making are:
1.

Commitment

2.

Consciousness

3.

Competency

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Ethical Commitment
A crisis or emergency confronts us with many situations that test ethical
commitment. Thus, you need to be very clear about your own ethical values and
have a strong understanding of ethical standards of conduct. Ethical commitment
(or motivation) involves demonstrating a strong desire to act ethically and to do
the right thing, especially when ethics imposes financial, social, or psychological
costs.
Ethical Consciousness
Understand that peoples perceptions are their reality-and so what we understand
to be perfectly legal conduct may be perceived by taxpayers as improper or
inappropriate. Ethical consciousness (or awareness) involves seeing and
understanding the ethical implications of our behavior and applying our ethical
values to our daily lives.

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Ethical Competency

Ethical competency (or skill) involves being competent in ethical decisionmaking

skills, which include.
1.
Prediction: The ability to foresee the potential consequences of conduct
and assess the likelihood or risk that persons will be helped or harmed by an act.

2.
Evaluation: The ability to collect and evaluate relevant facts, and
knowing when to stop collecting facts and to make prudent decisions based on
incomplete and ambiguous facts.
3.
Creativity: The capacity to develop resourceful means of accomplishing
goals in ways that avoid or minimize ethical problems.

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Decision Making and Stress

Decisions can be as simple as delegating a routine task or as complex as
responding to a major crisis. Decision making in a crisis is made more difficult
because of stress.
Impediments to making good decisions under stress include
1.

Perceived or real time pressure.

2.

Possible political pressures.

3.

Liquor.

4.

Sleep deprivation and resulting fatigue.

5.

Uncertainty.

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Under stress, decision makers are more likely to

1.

Experience conflict with other key players.

2.

Perceive selectively because of sensory overload, and thus perhaps

miss important information.
3. Experience perception distortion and poor judgment.
Decision makers under stress also tend to

1.

Be less tolerant of ambiguity and thus perhaps make premature

decisions.

2.

Experience a decreased ability to handle difficult tasks and work

productively.

3.

Experience a greater tendency toward aggression and escape

behaviors.

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They may also

1.

Choose a risky alternative.

2.

Succumb to groupthink.

3.

Consider only immediate survival goals, sacrificing long-range

considerations.

4.

Get tunnel vision.

An important key to effective decision making in a crisis is being systematic. A

good way to be systematic is to use the problem

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