ABSTRACT

How do administrators and leaders in mental health management make their decisions? Intuition? Experience? Or do skilled leaders carefully collect information, weigh its veracity and relevance, and then exercise their best judgment in tandem with intuition and experience? In this era of increasing technology and fast-paced competition, those in decision-making positions face a plethora of ethical challenges. These challenges make it incumbent on leaders to use as many guiding resources and principles as possible. To paraphrase Henry Ford, it may not be important to know everything, but it is important to know where to get the correct information when you need it. Ethics is an important consideration in decision making, particularly in today's environment of technology and information.