Overview
Chapter 4.1 discusses common barriers to ethical decision-making. Please review this section and the Wells Fargo case study resources (4.23, 4.24, and 4.25).
Describe the potential barriers to ethical decision-making the leaders at Wells Fargo encountered. What are the barriers that you think influenced the decisions that led to the scandal? Were the barriers eventually able to be overcome? Use each of the four ethical frameworks discussed in the resources (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics, social contract theory) to analyze the case. How did the actions of the leaders align (or not align) with these frameworks? How do you think applying the key tenets of each of the frameworks might have influenced the decision-making process? [MO 4.1, MO 4.2, MO 4.3, MO 4.4]