This text is designed to appeal to individuals in academic, governmental, business, health care, and various other professions. It describes the organizational and individual factors that come into play when ethical issues are confronted in organizations. It does not prescribe how to make ethical decisions but rather describes how either ethical or unethical decisions are made, providing information about the pitfalls, barriers and circumstances that may tend to lead towards unethical outcomes while proposing how an organization can increase its odds of consistently arriving at ethical ones.