Copy URL ALL of us face challenging situations in our personal and professional lives that have required of us to make ethical decisions. It is easier at the personal level – family, relatives, friends and acquaintances – and even if the decision is later questioned, there are lessons to be learnt. At the professional level, the fall out can be ever so serious and have great consequences. However, what does one do when the working climate is one where there are many issues that do not sit well with one’s own sense of conscience? The options are to just accept the situation, dull one’s sense of conscience, adopt the majority culture, maintain silence and in many ways, be silently complicit to all the corruption, conflict of interest, cronyism and other evident compromises.