Ethical Awareness Inventory Analysis
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Ethical Awareness “You tend to base your ethical perspective on what it is good to be, rather than what it is good to do” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). My ethical awareness inventory scored predominantly high in the character-based perspective. As this inventory states, “Good people demonstrate good actions” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). I believe the basis for this ethical perspective comes from the fact that I was raised in and still practice Christianity.
“The process of living out one’s values is more important than the outcome of a decision” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). I don’t know that I would consider this to be true of myself. I had a negative number in the results perspective. As an entrepreneur I do value results. I have owned businesses before where I had to let employees go because they negatively affected the bottom-line. I knew that if I allowed the current arrangement to continue the entire business would close and everyone would be out of a job not just the employee who role was no longer a contribution to the bottom-line. That being said I would never make a decision that was dishonest, deceptive or intestinally destructive to anyone for self-preservation.
The section of the EAI that identified frustrations are both accurate and ridiculous. The ridiculous is from the foundational pre-supposition that “not everyone has an equal opportunity to develop virtues” (The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management, 2012). While it’s true that I do sometimes get frustrated that not everyone shares my values it’s not because people lack opportunity. I am frustrated because our culture down-plays virtue and character, removing the basic tenants of ethics from our schools, the media and the way in which we govern our