This book is both a workbook and process guide for making ethical
system-level decisions. It is of great use to any individual or team
that is looking for support in making an ethically-justified
system-level decision - that is, a decision that will impact people in
more than one or two individual situations. Traditionally, when people
think of ethics in the context of policy, what comes to mind is
identification of key principles relevant to the work. Ethics analysis
of the policy then explores what these principles mean and how they are
balanced in the policy. The conventional approach only considers formal
policies as worthy of ethics analysis, and the method of analysis leaves
a number of key ethically significant dimensions of the system-level
decision process unaddressed. The approach in this book assists decision
leaders or teams to make better decisions and realize the benefits of
quality, legitimacy, and compliance - and most important, greater
integrity for all concerned. Applicable to almost any context, this
resource has been effectively utilized in organizations that range from
health care to civil society.