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Discussion on: Toughest Ethical Decision you faced and how you handled it

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Angel Paudel

Life is always about making hard choices. And, with people always considering oneself and the people around them at the forefront, maintaining ethics is difficult as well. Thinking about the toughest ethical decision takes me back about a year ago when I had got an offer to join ICIMOD. The offer wasn’t that compelling for me but the opportunity it presented was certainly something that drove me to wonder what next.

My ethical decision doesn’t involve any other person but two different organization and my mental fight/thought process around it. At that time of receiving the offer, I was with Imagine Designs supervising three different teams, one of which was working on the biggest project of all time for the company. The project was close to completion with ETA for it to be delivered being under 2-months. The offer from ICIMOD required me to get back instantly. However, it won’t be correct of me to leave a vital project of the company near completion as someone else coming in need to be fully educated about the project and way around by which time the project deadline would already cross. This got me thinking.

On one hand, I had a job which was paying me very well and providing me a lot of leadership exposure while the other one had presented a good networking opportunity and a platform to learn how a multi-national organization functions.

I got in consultation with my family member, current colleagues and even John himself (Head of Operations at Imagine). I took the feedback I received from them all. I used that as a base but used my own logic to compose an email back to ICIMOD stating clearly of my current situation and me only being able to join after 2-month from the current date. I didn’t receive back an email for around a week. It came soon after and the email provided a new joining date which was in accordance with my requirement. That just made the decision much simpler with me being able to complete the current ongoing project while also passing on my knowledge on the other projects to my colleagues at the similar role to take anything forward.

From the entire experience, what I learned is that such instances come often in ways we might not have expected. Some of these also have implication on other person’s life making the decision even harder to make (Williams, 2008). It is always important to know your ground reality and not divert much for your values and beliefs. As these decisions will shape up your behavior and your decisions moving ahead (Hagberg, 2015). I holding my ground and thinking of the organization am currently with ensuring that my move won’t hamper them as much as possible is something that I truly believed in. And, that ensured that the organization could deliver their project on time and had a smooth transaction as well. It all worked out very well. This is something I always try to take with me moving forward which is to think from the brains and not just from the heart as much as possible.

References

Hagberg, G. (2015). On the Ground of Ethical Criticism. Philosophy And Literature , 39 (1A), 5-6.

Williams, N. (2008). New ethical grounds. Current Biology , 18 (12), 497.