Shaping risky choices: Ethics and the effects of organizational decisions.
Choices to live "at risk" are complex and challenging and can be structured by organizational policy. Some individuals genuinely wish to live in situations that are, or are perceived to be, high risk because this affords them an important benefit. However, it is likely that these choices are significantly affected by context and might not be made under different circumstances. The following argues for a responsibility to be attentive to the effects of organizational decisions on choices to live at risk and the overall distribution of risk.
Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. marika.warren@dal.ca.
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D002755:Choice Behavior; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012306:Risk; D012309:Risk-Taking