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Ethical Decision-Making—Synthesizing S. K. Chakraborty’s Classification of Ethics with Levels of Moral Judgement and the Four-Component Model

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While a large body of research is available on integrating various approaches to add to the understanding of Ethical Decision-Making (EDM), this paper will discuss and attempt to synthesize SK Chakraborty's seminal work on business ethics from the Indian ethos with that of two other well-established contributions from the West. These include SK Chakraborty’s three classifications of ethics: compliance, cognitive and consciousness; James Rest's four component model of EDM: recognize, judgment, intention and action; and Bebeau, Thoma & Walker’s three levels of moral judgment: abstract or general principles, professional codes, and organizational codes.

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Savur, S.G. (2022). Ethical Decision-Making—Synthesizing S. K. Chakraborty’s Classification of Ethics with Levels of Moral Judgement and the Four-Component Model. In: Mukherjee, S., Zsolnai, L. (eds) Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1158-3_9

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