University of Phoenix Material
Ethics Scenarios
ASSIGNMENT
Learning Team
Each team should respond in paragraph form to the questions that follow the scenarios presented below. Any disagreements or complications that occur within the team regarding the correct response should be noted in the Learning Team Reflection Worksheet for the week.
Individual
After the teams have completed their responses, each member should consider his or her individual responses and reactions to the various ethical perspectives. Rate yourself on the scale at the end of this document for each perspective. For each ethical perspective (duty-based, goal-based, rights-based, and human-nature), write a reflective paragraph in which you express your personal ethical statement regarding that perspective. The paragraph should state the numerical rating you gave yourself on the scale, and then supply an explanation for why you rated yourself at that level.
SCENARIOS
Duty-based (Deontological):
1. Donna and Michael are new teammates on a Learning Team. As they begin to work on a research paper for COMM 215, Donna begins to believe that Michael doesn't take the assignment seriously. Wanting the best possible grade, Donna begins to talk with Michael about the things he ought to be doing, about his duty to the team, and about how he should be behaving. She establishes a set of rules for the team, which Michael promptly breaks. From an ethical point of view, how can these teammates learn to work together, especially since Donna appears to be very duty based and Michael does not?
Dave's thoughts: Well, although it is good that Donna has taken the initiative to be the team leader, it's obviously not working out since she is having issues within the ...