The RESOLVEDD Strategy for Making Ethical Decisions*1. RReviewthe facts of the case.•What are the details?•What is the backgroundor history?2. EEstimate(specify) the conflict or problempresent in the case.•What is at issue or at stake?3. SList main possiblesolutionsto the case.4. OState important and probableoutcomesor consequences of each solution.•What will happen?•What is likely to happen?•Whatmighthappen?5. LDescribethelikely impactof each main solution on people’s lives, and onthe interests and concerns of entities (i.e., institutions, organizations, companies, governments and states), as well as nonhumans and the environment.•Who will be benefited?•Who will be harmed?•Who else will be impacted and how?6. VExplain thevaluesupheld and those infringed by each main solution.•Refer to relevant moral principles, e.g.,honesty, harm, fidelity, autonomy, confidentiality, lawfulness, equalconsiderationofinterests;•Characterizesalient moral rights, e.g.,knowledge, privacy, life, free expression, due process, safety, property;•If relevant, include consideration ofthe interests and rights of future generations.7. EEvaluateeach main solutioninterms of outcomes, likely impact and values upheld or infringed.8. DDecidewhich solution is best, state it, clarify its details, and justify it.9. DDefendthe decision against objections to its main weaknesses.*Based on Raymond Pfeiffer and Ralph Forsberg,Ethics on the Job: Cases and Strategies 4th Edition (Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning,2014).
