...Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection Andrew P. Fields US/101 April 16, 2013 Nakia Samuel Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection In this paper I will be discussing key concepts based on my ethical lens inventory. I will be explaining my ethical lens and academic behavior, along with; how my ethical lens influences these things. I will also be discussing the results of my reasoning aptitude, and how my ethical lens and reasoning aptitude will help me in the classroom and workplace. I feel the results of my ethical lens inventory are very valuable in determining who I am as a person. This is very interesting to me to know that my ethical lens reflects me perfectly as a person. For my core values, I value sensibility and follow my heart to make prudent choices, and I use rationality before anger. I agree with my key phrase results about making choices good for everyone. I feel that I am compassionate and free willed. My blind spot; WOW! This is very interesting. Yes I do sometimes set goals that are optimistic. As my wife says; “I am optimistic, and she is a realist.” This is very true for me. For my vise I feel everyone has a little greed in their life. Thankfully my compassion rules over my greed for the most part. My crisis is very deep and spot on. I don’t have very many friends, and I feel it is for the reasons that my ethical lens says. I do feel...
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...Week 9 Final Writing Paper Nicole Hanlin US/101 Sara Obeidat December 2, 2012 Week 9 Final Writing Paper Introduction My preferred Lens indicates none. The expression of this position does not have a blind spot. I am able to see the weaknesses of each lens; discernment helps ethical maturity provides direction in specific situations. My preferred ethical lens: I have learned in the ethical lens that it describes my personal ethical lens; also my ethical lens lists the facts about me. I have a mature ability to use the right tools in a given situation or I know how to paralyze belief that everyone can have a valid point. Some ethically mature are able to use the tools of all the lenses, adapting them to a given situation, test in the center of grid. Those without skills tend to be paralyzed and do not see all sides and try to please everyone. (“The Ethics Game”, 2012) My Blind Spot: My blind spot indicates none. I have learned that maturity expression of this position has no blind spot, so I am able to see both the strengths of the weaknesses of my lens and how to harmonize the four core values. Discernment comes from the ethical maturity and provides me specific directions for situations. (“The Ethic Game”, 2012) My strengths and weaknesses: I am able to see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens. I am able to move fluidly among them to adapt to the right tools that I need for each situation for the best outcome. I did not know about each lens until I did this study...
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...Ethical Lenses and Ethical Theories April Mallari ETH / 316 02/09/2012 Evelyn Moorman The purpose of this paper is to compare the similarities and differences between virtue theory, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics. The differences in how each theory addresses ethics and morality along with a personal experience will be addressed to help explain the relationship between virtue, values, and moral concepts as they relate to one of the three theories. A personal experience would be my character results from the University of Phoenix web based Ethics Game called the Ethical Lens Inventory. I was assigned to play the Ethics Game-Ethical Lens Inventory for class to determine which ethical perspective best categorized me. The results were surprisingly quite accurate in describing my character especially after reading the definitions of each lens and found that I fell into the Rights and Responsibilities Lens. There are four lenses in the ethics game, the Rights and Responsibilities Lens, Relationship Lens, Results Lens and Reputation Lens. Three of the four lenses will be covered in the paper as the Rights and Responsibilities Lens and Reputation lens are both categorized into two different views of the deontological theory. The Rights and Responsibilities Lens classifies me as a “person who uses my reasoning skills and (rationality) to determine your duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy)”...
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...Ethical Perspectives The Ethics Game simulations consisted of two ethical dilemmas. The first was called The Mysterious Roses and second dilemma was called Cold Feet. Each dilemma offered difficult ethical issues that needed to be addressed. Like the previous role playing simulation, the reader is in a manager type position and must make decisions that could have an effect on a lot of people. The Mysterious Roses starts by placing the reader in charge as the Marketing Director. As the Marketing Director, you receive a few emails. One email is from an employee who is worried about a co-worker who is having trouble at work. The next email is regarding anti-harassment classes followed by an email from the female who is receiving the roses. This female is stating that the roses are making her uncomfortable and she wishes that she would stop receiving them. There are a few decision making steps that are taken to ethically address these issues. As the Marketing Director it is your responsibility to identify the problem, identify who the problem effects, identify your duties to the people involved and how to solve the problem. The problem with this incident is identified as is the people involved. To solve the problem, the ethical lenses used in this part of the simulation are the Rights and Responsibility Lens and the Results Lens. When looking at the Rights and Responsibility Lens, there are a few tools that are available to assist in the decision making. The Rights and Responsibility...
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...to handle cases on my own and hopefully get promoted to a higher position. The opportunities that I would make for myself improvement to allow me to be more valuable in the workplace would be to sometimes think outside the box and understand my clients with a better and clearer understanding. The opportunities that I look forward to is getting to help kids and hopefully landing a supervisor position with New York City ACS Agency. The result of my Ethical Lens Inventory was that my personal preferred Lens was None – periscope and Paralysis. This means that I see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens and I am able to move smoothly among them to adopt the right tools to each situation to get the best outcome. It also says that I listen to my intuition to decide what best for individuals as well as the virtues that will best serve the community. One way that my personal Ethical Lens will direct my academic behavior is by helping me to see the things in others prospective and also adjust to different situations quickly. My Ethical Lens influence critical thinking by letting me help others...
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...identifying, and utilizing honest ethical behavior is a key component to academic and personal success. Knowing how to apply your ethical behavior to situations, academic or personal will aid an individual to manage a successful life. The true need for sound ethical behavior is the cornerstone to the foundation of a person’s character. Character is ethical behavior combined with choices and that is what defines us as individuals. Our character is tested when a paper is due, you run out of time and there is an option to cheat. Character plays a major role in team effort when collusion can be prevalent. A university is a vast consortium and it creates a challenge to your ethical standpoint and ethics must be exercised regularly. Without proper understanding of ethics and how it affects the relationship to your own principles you could put yourself or someone else in academic danger. Your ignorance of ethical behavior may violate a universities code of integrity. I feel upholding a concise set of ethics is essential to academic and personal success. Ethics in the university is a topic that is in the background and forefront at the same time. It is assumed you should acquire and use good judgment and it should be transparent, but we talk about it all the time. An ethical behavior search on the Internet will produce over 4.5 million hits, for example, what is ethical behavior? the business of ethical behavior, there is even an institute for ethical behavior. Everyone thinks a little...
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...Ethical Lens and Dilemmas Ethical Leadership C206 April 4th, 2015 Ethical Lens and Dilemmas Ethics is the guiding force in any respectable organization. With a moral compass, especially in the leadership of organization, a company can become compromised and fall into a quagmire of legal issues, a tarnished reputation, and devaluation of company stock if it is a publically traded company. In pursuit of examine my own ethical lens I will analyze the ethical traits of an admired leader, my own traits as exhibited in the Ethical Lens Inventory, and how I make a decision concerning a particular ethical dilemma. Ethical Traits of President Obama My chosen leader for this ethics review is President Barack Obama. President Obama’s two leading exhibited ethical traits are respect and fairness. According to article Obama's Leadership & Character Traits Obama showed the first trait, respect, when he shared his views concerning diplomacy with Iran before he took office. He believed that we should recommence peace talks with Iran rather than pass a bill that would seek to label a group within their borders a terrorist threat which would lead us to locate troops near the Iranian border and escalate already heated tensions with Iran. Obama showed respect in this instance by believing that the past of an organization does not inherently infer that the organization should be disrespected by using force first rather than diplomacy. (Obama's Leadership & Character Traits...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |US/101 Version 7 | | |Introduction to University Studies | Copyright © 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description The essential information, skills, tools, and techniques necessary for academic success and personal effectiveness at University of Phoenix are introduced in this course. The course develops and applies practical knowledge and skills immediately relevant to first-year university students. Course topics include goal setting and working with personal motivation, understanding and using university resources, developing efficient study habits, making the most of personal learning styles, and how best to manage time and reduce personal stress levels. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view...
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...Course Design Guide GEN/200 Version 2 Course Syllabus College of Humanities GEN/200 Version 2 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success Copyright © 2011, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academi c strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success . Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Ellis, D. (2011). Becoming a master student (13th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. All electronic materials are available on the student website. 1 Course Design Guide GEN/200 Version 2 Week...
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...Personal Ethical Statement your name GEN/200 10/18/13 teachers name Personal Ethical Statement Developing your ethical values and acting upon your developed value is hard to master but over time you begin to see how to use it to your advantage. To master all four ethical lenses is a ongoing process which was hard to think of that way, never an end to it, always improving it, and drawing from others ideas and viewpoints is great way to start developing your own ethical lenses. My personal ethical viewpoint on this simulation was it all boiled down to maturity, the maturity to tell mark he copied my research paper and turned it in for credits risking both our credentials in school and risking his getting expelled, basically not thinking ahead of his actions and not using his own ethical lenses thus throwing us both in a bad spot legally, personally and ethically. I just found it highly childish and risky of a friend to copy your homework and risk both your reputations like that, very irresponsible. In this simulation I swayed towards, rationality, but not excluding equality for mark and Lisa's situation. I can use most lenses to my advantage moving fluidly among them to adapt to certain situations. My blind spot, well I don't really have one according my ethical lenses inventory, I'm balanced, I see both the strengths and weaknesses of each lens and I actually agree with that, my ethical lens actually does feel like its explaining who I am as a person and how I react...
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...Soto The Case of the Mysterious Roses and The Case of the Cold Feet The ethics game simulations in these scenarios took the managers of the organizations through different ethical dilemmas. Until faced with an ethical situation in the workplace you really do not know what your decision would be as a manager. In any situation you have to make the best decision for the organization without compromising your own morals and values. This paper will discuss the ethical dilemmas in these organizations and my decisions of The Case of the Mysterious Roses and The Case of the Cold Feet. The Case of the Mysterious Roses In this simulation I was the Director of Sales in the organization. I received an email from my administrative assistant and a work colleague in the organization telling me of an employee Gayle Dornier, receiving flowers from an anonymous person. The person that sends me the email assumes it is another employee sending the roses. Bill Witherspoon, a Research Scientist who also works in the company sends me an email informing me of him and Gayle’s work relationship and asking me to be lenient on Gayle because of issues she is going through. The next email I receive is from Gayle asking to speak with me in confidence but doesn’t disclose to me the reason for the meeting. The ethical issue is for me to determine how I can ensure Gayle can talk about what happened while still meeting my responsibility as a manager and to treat all employees fairly in an investigation...
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...The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Amber Williamson GEN 201 November 23, 2015 Tina Bernard The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking and ethics play a significant role within each other's decision process. They both use each other’s steps and processes to obtain a desired result. Throughout this paper, you will understand what critical thinking and ethics are and the relationship between the two. Critical Thinking Critical thinking is the ability to think rationally about a subject or material. Your brain uses a process to dissect the information into sections, then reconstruct the pieces into new connections. Using critical thinking allows a person to come up with something different based on the original idea that could open new relationships with other ideas. ‘Critical thinking is made up of a process that includes six levels’ (Ellis, 2011, para. page 2). The first level is remembering. In this level, a person focuses on whether or not they can recall important facts about the idea. Examples may be key terms or certain events. The second level is understanding. The big question here is, do I know what the idea is? Can I summarize and put the idea into my words? Level three is applying. In this level, a person needs to be able to take the idea and use it to get the results that they are looking for. On level four it is time to analyze the idea. By doing this, the idea will be broken or...
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...Continued Academic Success Samantha White GEN/201 10/01/2015 Tia McMillan Introduction Throughout a person's academic career, there are many good habits to have that will assist in the continued success of future endeavors. These include creating goals, understanding your ethical lens, being able to think critically, write formally, and knowing what resources are at one's disposal to put you on the right path. With knowledge of these habits and perfecting them to your learning level, continued academic success can be reached. Educational and Career Goals Some might not see the importance of making goals when discussing success. In all actuality, setting goals is one of the most important steps in setting out on a path towards success. In the Journal of Student Development it is said that "goals and self-responsibility represent the foundation upon which personal and academic success are built and all other academic and life skills are base" (Hughes & Marsh, 2000, para. 2). Setting goals can help lead to success by allowing you to focus on one thing at a time, and not get overwhelmed by the big picture. By knowing what you want, you can begin to focus on what steps you must take to get there. Personally, my career goal is to become a clinical psychologist. This requires a doctorate, and many years of schooling, licensing, and internships. While a good goal to have, it can be frightening to know that I have all of that ahead of me. In my case, I have broken it down simply...
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...Running Header: Continued Academic Success Continued Academic Success Angela Brantley GEN/201 October 19, 2015 Portia Jones It’s Okay to be Different Even though our styles are different in learning and writing, we all have the same goal to write a good paper. By having so many resources available, we will be able to achieve academic integrity and success. By knowing how we learn, it will allow us to write a good paper. Being able to focus and use all the resources we have available. Learning Styles “Learning Styles differ but so does the learner.” (Walker & Schutte, 2002) One of the approaches to learning styles that is considered the most powerful and simple is the VAK system. It focuses on these three styles: ▪ Visual Learning • Learning by seeing ▪ Auditory Learning • Learning by hearing ▪ Kinesthetic Learning • Learning by doing Knowing the style by which someone learns helps both the learner and the instructor. It allows the student to comprehend the subject and learn the style that works for them. In addition to personality, learning styles are an individual difference factor that represents enduring and stable approaches to processing information (Snyder, 2000). If you are a visual learner, you are more likely to get bored with auditory learning and losing focus with the...
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...with ABC, but he is also genuinely concerned about the well being of his brother. Selling the house now would mean potentially higher profits for Owen. A dilemma exists about whether or not Luke should tell his brother about the upcoming building of the adult entertainment store, which would decrease the property value of the house he is trying to sell versus disrespecting ABC Company and their confidentiality agreement. Should Luke protect his brother and advise him to not sell his house or should he respect ABC Company and keep the information to himself until it is publically announced? It is clear there is an ethical dilemma in this situation: a matter of doing the right thing and not breaching confidentiality (loyalty to the company) vs. being a good person and saving a family member grief from making a financially poor choice. ANALYSIS: Applying the ethical lenses/theories UTILITARIANISM: Utilitarianism is a theory that states that moral action is most effective when it maximizes utility, which is defined as...
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