Ethical approaches and methods of decision-making in the future

One of the emerging issues in science decision is that how ethical concerns enter into models. Studies in this area are inconsistent and don’t show Fundamental ethical orientations in decision science. Ethical theories are a suitable source for categorizing ethical approaches of OR. Due to the gaps in this area, the present study aims to identify the influencing ethical currents of field on organizational decision making.
In terms of target, the present study is applied and in terms of data collection, is a descriptive research. Themes analysis was used for analyzing data. For this purpose, in the first articles of four journals in OR was considered. Then, using theoretical sampling, 68 articles were selected for extraction of themes related to ethics.
After analyzing the themes, four main themes were identified. These themes are: entry way of ethics into models, human will, human nature and ethical foundation. According to these themes, a comprehensive classification of ethical streams of OR was presented. The ethical currents are: classic, critical realism, interpretative, normative, post-structuralism, pragmatism.
The results will be impressive in recognition of ethical values on organizational problems, entry method of values into models and combination way of models.