Assignment: Ethics and Legality in Decision Making
Activity: Summarize the Analysis of Decision Making Based on Ethics, Legality, and Fairness
Activity Description
With your analysis complete, prepare a brief summary in which you relate the components of ethics, legality, and fairness in decision making. How does effective organizational communication support ethical and legal decision making that one would also deem fair? Is it always possible to make a fair decision based on the necessary ethical and legal implications? Why or why not?
Support your paper with a minimum of two scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 2-3 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.
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Learning Outcomes
1. Appraise the influence of the following on any given decision: risk, conflict, ethics, legality, incentives, biases, and time constraints.
2. Judge the health of decision-making processes in an organization.
3. Relate decision-making, organizational leadership, and organizational communication to one another.
4. Devise appropriate decision-making approaches based on the nature and global dimensions of a given situation.
Resources
Books: McDowell, B. (2000). Ethics and excuses: The crisis in professional responsibility.
https://site.ebrary.com/lib/ncent/detail.action?docID=5003903
Read Chapter 4.