Ethical Decision Making

Step 1:  Get ALL students to read over what is the difference between Ethics and Morals

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_Morals

Step 2:  Breakdown class in 4 corner and get them to address the following;

• What are some barriers SNCOs can face when making ethical decisions?

• What factors went into developing your own personal morals, and what drives them now?

• What kind of ethical issues and problems you have faced in your career?

• What types of ethical decisions will you likely face in the future as you assume higher positions of leadership?

• How can you, as a SNCO, personally affect the ethical climate of your organization in order to foster trust-based relationships?

• Ethics based on the action​

• In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.​

• Ethical decision based on the end result

• In ethical philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

• Morals vs ethics​

• Virtue ethics is an approach to ethics that treats the concept of moral virtue as central.​

• In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals.