The Role of Leadership Stress Describe

Ethical Decision Making in Organizations: The Role of Leadership Stress
Describe your selected ethical dilemma.Apply each one of the first 14 steps (located in Ch. 9) in the ethical decision making process to your selected issue.Explain the importance of ethical decision making in professional psychology.
1400 to 1600 words

As an Air Force lieutenant colonel, Jack commands a squadron of fighter-bombers. Like other squadron commanders in his wing, he is concerned about safety. While the record is not terrible, there have been aircraft accidents and many close calls recently. Something is out of kilter.

So when he is promoted to squadron commander—in charge of 25 pilots, 25 navigators, and 300 maintenance and ground personnel—Jack takes a different approach. Every Friday afternoon he convenes his 50 fliers in the Squadron's Bar. To pay for refreshments they each plunk down a dollar on the pool table for each mistake or close call they had while flying. And then they talk for hours, freely and frankly, about what is going on in the squadron and how to improve safety. Jack has just one standing rule: amnesty. Whatever is said within the room is to be held in confidence; nobody gets in trouble for admitting they have made an error while flying.

In the months that follow, the conversation is open and direct. Lots of issues, big and small, come to the surface concerning management, personnel, maintenance, regulations, and everything else. Jack begins to notice the hoped-for change: His squadron's safety record rises higher and higher in comparison to other squadrons in his wing.

Then one Friday a pilot recounts an experience he had earlier that week during what should have been a routine flight. He was flying in formation when the lead plane peeled off into a turn too soon. Having only seconds to adjust to the confusion, he lost his bearings—experiencing what is known among fliers as "spatial disorientation." When he came out of that potentially fatal condition, his plane was soaring upwards into the clouds, far from the formation. Deeply shaken, he headed back to the base, landed, and went home for the day.





. State the question, Dilemma, or Concern as Clearly as Possible
2. Anticipate who will be affected by the decision
3. Figure out who if anyone is the client
4. Assess whether our areas of competence and if missing knowledge skills experience or expertise are a good fit for this situation
5. Review relevant formal ethical standards
6. Review relevant legal standards
7. Review the relevant research and theory
8. Consider whether personal feelings biases or self-interest might affect our ethical judgment
9. Consider whether social cultural religious or similar factors affect the situation and the search for the best response
10. Consider consultation
11. Develop alternative courses of action
12. Think through the alternative courses of action
13. Try to adopt the perspective of each person who will be affected
14. Decide what to do review or reconsider it and take actions