Ethical Scenarios For each of the following scenarios, apply the steps listed in

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Ethical Scenarios
For each of the following scenarios, apply the steps listed in Table 6-2 of the text, Steps in Ethical Decision Making. A.You are a member of a group planning your neighborhood’s annual block party. You are charged with creating a flyer describing the party and distributing it, by mail or door-to-door for those neighbors who are unwilling to share an e-mail address. You have over thirty neighbors who will need a flyer. You don’t have a copy machine and you will bear the expense of copying the flyer yourself. At your office, there is no security key on the copy machine nor is there a counter that keeps track of the number of copies made by department. You are tempted to make the copies you need using the company copy machine. Your company has a strict policy requiring use of office equipment for business purposes only. What should you do? B.You are employed in the Human Resources Department at Anywhere Hospital. Your good friend Kim is applying for a position with Hospital. Kim asks you for advice on how to prepare for an interview. You have access to the interview questions asked of all candidates and know that if Kim had access to the questions, she would be well prepared for an interview. What should you do? C.You work in Quality Control. Your department receives new computer equipment as part of a cyclical maintenance plan. Once a year, your department inventories the existing computer equipment that is in working order but is no longer needed and identifies the equipment as excess property. Excess computers are donated to a local elementary school. This year, your department has identified ten computers and peripheral accessories as excess property ready for donation. You are asked to deliver the excess property to the elementary school. In viewing the excess property, you note that the equipment is newer than the equipment you have at your home. You are tempted to switch out your home computer equipment with some of the excess property and then deliver the equipment to a local elementary school. What should you do? Instructions Review the case scenarios and select one of the three scenarios listed below to write about Compare the steps typically taken in the ethical decision-making process to the scenario you have selected to write about 1. Clearly define the issue 2. Determine the facts of the situation 3. Determine who the stakeholders are, the values at stake, and the obligations and interests of each stakeholder 4. Determine what options are available and evaluate them 5. Decide what should be done 6. Justify the decision made by identifying reasons that support the decision 7. Implement the decision 8. Evaluate the outcome of the decision 9. Examine how to prevent the issue from recurring

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1-The issue is the dilemma of whether to use the office copying machine or not as it hits the person’s principals of doing the right thing,

2-The facts are

-should not break the company rules no matter what

-the neighbors who are not interested have not shared the email ID

3-The stakeholders are the person who is supposed to give the flyers and the company. The person has good intentions but cannot afford to break the company rule whereas the company has set rule to avoid any mishap or abuse. Both cannot cross their line unless the company grants permission for doing this activity.

4-The only option is the person should discuss this event and the flyer copy idea with his / her supervisor and get permission for the flyer copies to be printed by office machine.

5-Permission to print should be asked to the supervisor, if not granted, meet the neighbors in person to invite.

6-At no point should one person break any rule even if the cause is good as rules are set for a reason and for common good.

7-Ask permission and explain the details to the supervisor before leaving for the day.

8-The supervisor may praise the sincerity of the employee but still reject the idea. Therefore the person has to invite the neighbors in person.

9-Next time when similar event has been decided, the topic of flyer not able to be done should be brought up by the person and an alternative individual should be allocated who can get it done.

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