Ethical Decision Making

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Have you ever wondered how a manager goes about making decisions on a day to day basis? In most cases, there may be policies and procedures that they have to follow, but there will be times when they have to make decisions based on their own knowledge, and this is where ethics in management can come into play. Managers hold a job where they must please their employees, stakeholders, and higher management, and this can cause a problem in making the ethic decision.
A few examples of ethical decisions within our profession may include; A new food service director deciding to purchase enteral formulas from a friend also in the dietetics profession, rather than a decision made based on budget and needs of the organization. A preceptor for interns not addressing a situation of drug and alcohol use with some of his employees, because he is unsure of where his duties fall in responsibility for those interns actions.
Managers in nutrition and dietetics must always follow the code of ethics, and consider the decision that needs to be made from the three ethics perspectives ethical tasks, which state what surrounds the situation, the ethical relations, which state who is involved and ethical change, which is the change that may be made in an organization due to an ethical decision that is made by a manger.

Sauer, K. (2016). Ethics in action: Ethical considerations in management practice. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 116(1), 148-149. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2015.10.032


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