Model of the Ethical Decision Making Process

In the previous post, I have presented the general Framework for Understanding Ethical Decision Making in Business and the Ethical issue intensity. See the model below.

We will continue with the organizational factors. According to the statistics, organization's values often have greater influence on decisions than person's own values. Research has further showed that corporate culture is one of the most important key factor in ethical decision making in Business.
Corporate Culture is known as set of norms, values and ways of solving problems that employees of an organization share.

Another factor that shapes the ethical decision making is the Opportunity. Opportunity represents the situation that limit ethical or unethical behavior in an organization.Opportunity relates to individual’s immediate job context, which includes the motivational carrots and sticks. I have briefly introduced the other factors and starting from the next posting, we will discuss our main topic: Individual factors in ethical decision making.