Do What is Right

Abstract

What is the right thing to do in an ethical situation? Ethics is nothing more than looking at a problem, determine if it's wrong, and then making the right decision based on our values. Ethics comes from our own childhood background. The army teaches us, to deal with our ethical situations through discipline, standards and decisions to use the army values as our guide. Values are another tool that our parents instill in us, but our parents also had a tremendous influence over how we rate these values. This rating is the single best or at times the single worst factor when trying to make the right ethical decision. I believe the first step a leader must take is to understand that all the army values are of equal importance, only then can we make the best ethical decision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 04, 2006
Accession Number
AD1112073

Entities

People

  • Efrem Z. Evans

Organizations

  • United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Collateral Damage
  • Criminals
  • Discrimination
  • Geneva Conventions
  • Leadership
  • Mass Murder
  • Personnel Management
  • Prisoners
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Societies
  • Standards
  • Terrorists
  • United States

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Naval Personnel Management