MAKING TOUGH CHOICES ETHICS IN LEADERSHIP DR. CASTRUITA

Legality, Morality, and Ethics The “Law” Regulation: Essential to sustain any kind of experience involving two or more people When ethics collapses, the law rushes in to fill the void A “condensation of ethics into codification

Legality, Morality, and Ethics Moral Temptations Right and Wrong When, in the face of a perceived injustice, do we speak up to correct obvious wrongs, and when do we remain silent to protect ourselves and others from abuse?

Legality, Morality, and Ethics What is this thing called “Ethics?” “Obedience to the unenforceable” The greater our reliance on laws, the less ethical we are as people We know it when we see it

Legality, Morality, and Ethics How Good People Make Touch Choices “The choice is not will society be regulated or unregulated, but the choice is between unenforceable self-regulation and enforceable legal regulation.” “Law and Ethics are not the same”

Core Values The Ten Commandments The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights The West Point Honor Code The Boy/Girl Scout Laws Corporate Codes of Ethics

Dilemma Paradigms Facilitate “Tough” Choices BUYING TIME ! Helps cut through mystery, complexity, and confusion Helps get to the heart of the matter Helps separate right versus wrong from right versus right choices Four Paradigms~ help to describe “the clashing of core values that makes it hard for good people to make tough choices”

Dilemma Paradigms Truth versus Loyalty What is truth? Accurate, completed and relevant “Truth crushed to earth will rise

EHICAL REFLECTION WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR WORDS CHOOSE YOUR WORDS FOR THEY BECOME ACTIONS UNDERSTAND YOUR ACTIONS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR HABITS STUDY YOUR HABITS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR CHARACTER DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTER FOR IT BECOMES WHAT YOU STAND FOR!