A Decision Tree for Strategy Selection in Cases of Cross-Cultural Ethical Conflict

Dealing with cross-cultural ethical conflict is a complex, difficult, and increasingly frequent challenge for managers. Our position is that no one strategy is always best, and in this paper we propose a decision tree to guide managers in choosing among a number of alternative strategies for addressing these conflicts. Appraising the issue’s moral significance, the urgency of the situation, and the relative influence of the parties to the conflict provides the basis for the evaluation of strategies.