Decision Support System

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This paper looks at how the article discusses the problems of unethical behavior in an organization and how decision support system can help in making more ethically sound decisions. It evaluates how the authors present an in-depth study of decision support system (DSS) and its implementation in organizations for ethical decision making. Decision support system is software that helps in analyzing various situations and presents different decision alternatives. It examines how although ethics have become an extremely important issue of debate in our corporate sector, very little attention is paid to ethicality of decisions made at managerial level. It shows how the authors cite various examples to prove that ethics is an important subject in organizations and thus DSS must be implemented to make decision-making process more precise and accurate.

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"Carlson and others have presented previous research findings in this connection to highlight the importance of ethics in organizations and to further support their argument in favor of implementation of information systems in decision-making process. Citing these researches, Dubinsky and Loken, 1989; Ferrell and Gresham, 1985; Fritzsche, 1995; Gottlieb and Sanzgiri, 1996; Hunt and Vitell, 1986; Jones, 1991; Rest, 1986; Trevino, 1986, the authors maintain that a lot of information is available on the subject of ethical decision making but there is significant fewer studies conducted ion the subject of support that should be given to the decision maker. Citing Carlson and Perrewe, 1995; Nielsen, 1990, Sims, 1991, they concur that very few well researched studies are available on support system which illustrates the fact that more in depth study is required in this area."

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