Ethics-Based Training for Clinicians: Moving Beyond Ethical Decision Making Models

Leading Ethical Decision - Making : Clinical Ethics Services in Australia

A Contemporary Framework for Emotions in Consumer Decision-Making: Moving Beyond Traditional Models

Traditional models of consumer decision-making are largely cognitive and sequential in nature. While there is some recognition of an emotional component in the decision-making process, traditional models assume emotions are sequential in nature with the most important emotion being the final one, negative emotions are bad and should be overcome, cognitive and affective processes and multiple em...

Organizational Ethics, Individual Ethics, and Ethical Intentions in International Decision-Making

This study explores the impact of both individual ethics (IE) and organizational ethics (OE) on ethical intention (EI). Ethical intention, or the individual’s intention to engage in ethical behavior, is useful as a dependent variable because it relates to behavior which can be an expression of values, but also is influenced by organizational and societal variables. The focus is on EI in interna...

A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making

We present a general approach to automating ethical decisions, drawing on machine learning and computational social choice. In a nutshell, we propose to learn a model of societal preferences, and, when faced with a specific ethical dilemma at runtime, efficiently aggregate those preferences to identify a desirable choice. We provide a concrete algorithm that instantiates our approach; some of i...

Ethics for Information Resource Management: The Role of Objective Ethical Standards in Decision-Making

While ethics research has gained prominence among the IS community, few have argued explicitly for an objective standard in ethical decision-making. This oversight has left many researchers using subjective standards or an amalgamation of ethic perspectives when analyzing decision-making in organizations. In this paper, we argue that an objective standard is critical to ethical research and tha...