Unethical decision making is best described as?

• A. Groupthink
• B. Unethical decision making
• C. Evaluate the decision
• D. Plan for implementation

Answer: (B)

Unethical decision making refers to choices that violate ethical norms, moral principles, or an organization’s codes of conduct. The key is the ethical lapse itself—the decision is wrong not because of the process used, but because of its ethical implications.

This differs from groupthink, which is about social pressure within a group leading to conformity and poor outcomes; it differs from evaluating the decision, which is the act of assessing a decision’s quality or impact after the fact; and it differs from planning for implementation, which concerns how to execute a decision. So the best description is simply that these are decisions that are unethical in nature, highlighting the conduct rather than the process or the steps involved.