Ethical Decision Making: A Role-Play Exercise

Basal ganglia play a crucial role in decision making

Many studies have suggested that the striatum, located at the interface of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit, consists of separate circuits that serve distinct functions It plays an important role in motor planning, value processing, and decision making.

Ethical Decision Making in Organizations: The Role of Leadership Stress

Across two studies the hypotheses were tested that stressful situations affect both leadership ethical acting and leaders’ recognition of ethical dilemmas. In the studies, decision makers recruited from 3 sites of a Swedish multinational civil engineering company provided personal data on stressful situations, made ethical decisions, and answered to stress-outcome questions. Stressful situation...

The role of the court in ethical decision making.

The medical profession generally is uncertain both as to the circumstances in which the guidance of the courts can be sought in relation to ethical decisions regarding individual patients and the way to go about requesting such guidance. The machinery is under used although the courts encourage its use in all 'boundary line' decisions: these are decisions involving competence in its widest sens...

Investigating the Role of Self-consciousness Excitement (pride and shame) In Ethical decision-making in Accounting

    Self-conscious excitement is one aspect of human behavior that plays an important role in his life and can automatically stimulate moral judgments and act as a basis for moral decision-making. Accordingly, this study examines two self-conscious excitements (pride and shame), and aims to achieve a better understanding of the role of self-conscious excitees in the process of ethical decision-...

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