ETHICAL DECISION MAKING STYLE

Stanley Krolick developed the individual primary and secondary Ethical decision making styles.

Individualist Style:
- Driven by natural reason, personal survival and preservation .
- The self is the source and justification of all actions and decision.
- The moral authority of individualists is their own reasoning process based on self interest.

Attruists Style:
Concerned primarily with other people
- Attruists relinquish their own personal security for the good of others.
- Attruists are close to universalists and philanthropists.
- Attruists enter relationship from a desire to contribute to the common good and to humankind.

Pragmatists Style:
- Pragmatists are concerned primarily with the situation at hand, not with the self or with others.
- Facts and situational information are justification for the pragmatists action.
- Pragmatists may be abondon significant principles and values to produce certain results.

Idealists Style:
Idealists are driven by principles and rules reson relationships or the desired consequences
- Idealist moral authority and motivation are commitment to princples and consistency.
- Values and rules of conduct are the justification that idalists use to explain their actions.