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Shaikh Introduction With the advent of ultra-modern communications technology and public awareness of suspicious business practices, the question of ethics in decision-making has become extremely important in today's business world, in commercial as well as government sectors.
Recognizing the importance and need for institutionalization of ethics, this paper suggests a practical ethical environment by reviewing the Islamic and Western thoughts on ethics in decision-making.
Hendersen proposed a situational ethic algorithm wherein he transforms Fletcher's (1386 AH/1966 AC) four factors serving as checkpoints for resolving ethics dimensions in a given situation to the business context as follows: Goals—should be compatible with respect to constituency priority, Methods—should be acceptable by constituents Motives—should be known (non-secretive), unselfish, and should possess value orientation of constituents consequences—the consequences of goals, methods, and motives should be examined with respect to time frames, constituency impact and exogenous effects Decision-Making Ethics In Pure Islamic Environment According to the fundamental Islamic belief, the Holy Qur'an (see Yusuf Ali (1366 AH/1946 AC) and Maududi (1394 AH/1974 AC)) is the fountain head of Islam.
In the context of group decision-making, it can be stated (derived based on the above guidelines) that, while dealing with participants, an individual must use righteousness, piety, justice, moderation, honesty, congeniality, generosity, and forgiveness.
In summary, the Holy Qur'an emphasizes moderation, truthfulness, justice, alont with other attributes identified earlier, and with consensus-seeking during group decision-making.
Discussion An examination of the Western and Islamic decision-making ethics indicates many similarities and some significant differences.