...Ethics Game Simulations Finale Ethics Game Simulations Finale In the ethics game simulation Mysterious Roses and Cold Feet, I was presented with a case of harassment. I am the Director of Sales who sale representative was being harassed by another employee from research. He was sending flowers anonymously and even reached out about her performance, asking for leniency. Other employees noticed the female employees’ distress over the flowers and also express concern and she also reached out. Being the director of sales HR required a harassment course to be held. For this exercise I am using Baird’s Four Core Lenses: Ethical Decision-Making. The building blocks of the four lenses are rationality, equality, autonomy and sensibility. Rights/responsibility lens is to do right even when no one is looking. Relationship is more about the community and harmony, results is the immediate situation and reputation is about the outlook (Kennedy 2011). Tension and Stakeholders The first step in the process is exploring the values in tension; according to (EthicsGame 2013) preparing the best statement of the issue should highlight the tension, but ensuing company rules and policies are enforced. Focusing on helping everyone involved, avoiding focus on single individual and preventing an unpleasant outcome. This process lead to the statement: how to ensure that Gayle can talk about what happened while meeting my responsibilities as a manger for a fair investigation. Next I had to...
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...people to determine if something is right or wrong. They influence decisions that people make everyday. They are also the principles and standards of conduct the guide an individual or a group. In this week's assignment I opted for the EthicsGame simulations: “The Mysterious Blogger” and “The Veiled ID” The two simulations provided different ethical issues. “The Mysterious Blogger concerns the issue obtaining information that was illegally obtained to prove that an employee violated a non-disclosure agreement. Aaron Webb is an employee working in the MD department and posted confidential information in a blog concerning the company. An IT tech, Jamal Moore felt that his supervisor was not taking the situation seriously. He took it upon himself to hacked into Mr. Webb's home computer and found incriminating evidence. In “The Veiled ID” concerns the issue of protecting employees while also protected their rights and special needs. The company is beefing up security due to an unfortunate situation. The solution is to have each employee where security badges with a photo ID. Atsha Mullah religious belief is not to be seen without her veil to anyone other than her family and the photo would be in violation of that belief. In both simulations the solutions became the top priority. Steps needed to be taken in order to determine what the ethical solution is to the problems. In both cases the first step is to determine who are the primary shareholders, which are the persons...
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...Organizational Issues – Ethics Game ETH/316 December 12, 2012 Organizational Issues – EthicsGame The EthicsGame is a simulation program of University of Phoenix on real-world situations. It was written as a tool to help educate students on ethical decision-making. The simulation The Mysterious Blogger was chosen by the author to analysis is based on a company called G-BioSpot. A leading edge sports nutrition and supplements company founded by Carson Nelson, and Rian Miller. After working in the nutrition industry 10 years theydecide to open their own company (University of Phoenix, 2012). The author will review the simulation using the Barid Method decision-making process, and provide G-BioSpot with the best solution on their dilemma. The Mysterious Blogger The scenario in this simulation is the organization has a new computer security system and an employee has violated the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by posting information about the company on a public blog. The blogger posting are about the security system and products. One of the IT employees without consent of the company hacks into the bloggers account and obtains the identity. The IT employee forwards the information to the Manager of Safety and Efficiency. Jorge from IT sees the anonymous e-mail sent to the manager and reveals the identity of both. The issue the Manager of Safety and Efficiency has is to whether use the information provided illegally to discipline or fire Jamal Moore (IT) and Aaron Webb (blogger)...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week Three EthicsGame Simulation Worksheet Student Name: Andi Cruz Facilitator: Complete the interactive EthicsGame simulation located on the University of Phoenix student website for Week Three. Note. You can only go through the simulation once, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation uses the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. Take notes about your decisions or make a copy of the screen when you complete the work to ensure you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Mysterious Blogger | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be attentive. | |4 | | |Notes: How to protect the company information while respecting the right of the employee to express | | | |themselves outside of work. | | |Step 2 |Who are the stakeholders? |Screen | |Be...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week Three EthicsGame Simulation Worksheet Student Name: _________________________ Facilitator: _________________________ Complete the interactive EthicsGame simulation located on the University of Phoenix student website for Week Three. Note. You can only go through the simulation once, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation uses the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. Take notes about your decisions or make a copy of the screen when you complete the work to ensure you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Mysterious Blogger | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be attentive. | |4 | | |Notes: | | | |How to discipline an employee who publicy revealed proprietary company information without condoning| | | |the fact that the identity of the individual was discovered via illegal means...
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...University of Phoenix Material EthicsGame Simulation Worksheet Student Name: _________________________ Facilitator: _________________________ Complete the interactive Ethics Game simulation, located on the course page on the University of Phoenix Student Web site for Week Three. You will be able to go through the simulation only one time, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation will use the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. You will want to take notes about your decisions and/or make a copy of the screen when you complete the work to assure that you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Case of Fair Warning | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be Attentive | |4 | | |Your notes: | | | | | | | | ...
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...Ethics Game Dilemma ETH 316 Ethics Game Dilemma Various conditions come up in the office that requires employees to sit down and think about the best solution. This usually involves supervisors and subordinates. At times answers are vague and what seems to be the most clearly defined answer, is not always the suitable choice. The Ethics Game simulation displayed two different cases: The Case of the Mysterious Rose and The Case of the Cold Feet. Both cases bring the manager across different thought procedures to make him or her comprehend the magnitude of examining the situation in dissimilar ways. In The Case of the Mysterious Rose, the simulation presented the predicament of a female employee getting flowers from another anonymous employee. I, as her boss, know about this state of affairs. The employee sends an e-mail soliciting for my assurance in a meeting. The obstacle that presents itself is how I have to answer the employee’s appeal for discretion in a meeting. Because I know about flowers and the possibility of impending harassment, I know that I cannot give her my guarantee on 100% secrecy. The simulation progresses through a sequence of steps managing the user to look at the situation from diverse ethical lenses. Both the rights and responsibilities lens and the results lens take the initial step in recognizing the primary participants. The following actions differed for the lenses. The actions I took through the lenses were different, though I came to the same...
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...Ethics Game Simulation MGT/216 October 5, 2011 Ethics Game Simulation This Ethics Game Simulation takes the user through two ethical dilemmas situations that were enthused by actual procedures in a business world. In the scenario the main user was the Quality Control Manager for G-Bio Sports, the responsibilities were to devise strategies and compose conclusions on ethical situations that came up. The first dilemma had a product that was tainted and had been attain by the community. On the second situation had a decision making process to begin advertising goods or items, which did not quantify to the safety standards of the United States. In this term paper, it will discuss the morals and values of each scenario. The issues are real cases of employees facing problems within the work environment and the choices they make. The first situation had tainted products, which slither all the way through quality control and to the community. This item contains extremely elevated point of an untested element that other products had as well. The main element or component had a small threat to any adults who are healthy. Adults with a frail protected immune system have an elevated hazard, particularly among regular utilization of this item. Throughout the predicament the user analyzes the problem and clarifies the precise issues that had to be dealt with. The corporate members were elucidated and how this would help mold the conclusion. The responsibilities and duties...
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...Option 2: EthicsGame Dilemmas ETH/316 Option 2: EthicsGame Dilemmas Introduction The project that was presented included the application of personal values in working through two different ethical dilemmas. In order to work through each of the dilemmas two analytical skill sets were used to come to a resolution. The first skill set involved the use of the four ethical lenses. The lenses include the Results Lens, Rights/Responsibility Lens, Relationship Lens, and Reputation Lens. The second skill involves the use of the Baird Decision Model which is a five-step process that gives a systematic approach to the resolution of an ethical dilemma. The five steps of the Baird Decision Model include: * Step 1: Be Attentive * Step 2: Be Intelligent * Step 3: Be Reasonable * Step 4: Be Responsible * Step 5: Be Reflective The combination of the ethical lenses with the decision model provides the groundwork to come up with, good value based, solutions to ethical conflict (Rian Brown, 2014). Mysterious Blogger The first ethical conflict that was presented was that of the “Mysterious Blogger.” In this simulation the Director of Information Technology, who is responsible for managing all internal information system functions which include systems programming, application programming, networks, and computer operations, is presented with an employee who is leaking the proprietary company information to the public through a blog sight as an anonymous...
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...COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a foundational perspective for ethics and social responsibility in relationship to individuals, organizations, and the community. Emphasis is placed on the inter-related nature of ethics, morality, legal responsibility, and social issues Week 1 - Topic 1: Ethical and Moral Perspectives Objectives Describe the difference between ethics and morality. Compare major ethical theories. Explain the relationship between virtue, values, and moral concepts. Materials Textbooks used in this course: EBOOK COLLECTION: Boylan, M. (2009). Basic ethics (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. EBOOK COLLECTION: Trevino, L.K. & Nelson, K.A. (2007). Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Readings for Week One: EBOOK COLLECTION: Chapter 6 of Basic Ethics EBOOK COLLECTION: Chapter 11 of Basic Ethics EBOOK COLLECTION: Chapter 12 of Basic Ethics EBOOK COLLECTION: Chapter 13 of Basic Ethics EBOOK COLLECTION: Chapter 10 of Basic Ethics ARTICLE: Week One Electronic Reserve Readings Other Materials for Week One: ETHICS GAME: Ethical Lens Inventory Assessment WEB LINK: Week One Individual Assignment: Ethics Essay Please see the instructor-issued syllabus for further details on individual and Learning Team assignments. Week 2 - Topic 1: Individual Responsibility in the Community Objectives Describe the responsibility of individuals to the community. Evaluate the...
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