ABSTRACT
Conferring with colleagues is often indispensable—most especially when one is in the throes of an uncomfortable ethical dilemma or sees the potential for one developing. The best-known reflection of moral universalism in the field of business ethics and the social responsibility of business institutions is the normative version of the multiple-stakeholder perspective. However, the circumstances under which industrial-organizational psychologists conduct employee selection testing are generally recognized to provide us with somewhat greater ethical latitude. This chapter presents some decisions that reflect simultaneously varying aspects and degrees of technical competence, ethical considerations, and differences in professional judgment. This type of dilemma is almost inevitable, given the universalist, multiple-stakeholder, professional perspective that acknowledges responsibility to several constituencies. Deontologists are concerned with principled expressions of rights, duties, responsibilities, virtue, fairness, and justice. For Aristotle, happiness results from acting in accord with all of the human virtues, even the altruistic ones such as beneficence and sympathy.
