- Title
- Ethical decision-making processes and frameworks utilised by industrial psychologists as external consultants
- Creator
- Minnaar, Lizette
- Subject
- Industrial psychologists, Consulting psychologists, Decision-making, Professional ethics
- Date
- 2012-06-05
- Type
- Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier
- uj:2410
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4862
- Description
- M.Comm., Industrial psychology is an evolving profession that continuously faces new challenges. In many instances these challenges are of an ethical nature and compel consulting psychologists to make ethical decisions. The profession is therefore in need of guidelines governing the ethical decision-making process of professionals. The purpose of this study was to identify the processes and frameworks utilised by consulting psychologists to make sound ethical decisions. The study was conducted with a sample of ten registered industrial psychologists who function as consultants to organisations. Semi-structured interviews with accompanying vignettes in the interpretive paradigm were employed as data-gathering technique. Content analysis was conducted to identify the most prominent frameworks informing the ethical decision-making process of consulting psychologists. The findings indicated that the ethical decision-making process does not follow a linear approach; it is, rather, an iterative process where the decisionmakers move back and forth between different steps that they utilise within their ethical decision-making frameworks. A conceptual framework of the ethical decision-making process was designed to guide practitioners in the industrial psychology profession during ethical decision-making.
- Contributor
- Prof. L. van Vuuren, Ms. A. Odendaal
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