...Ethics Game Simulation MGT/216 Michael Baney 26 August 2010 Ethics have always been an important aspect of the business world. There are a wide variety of ethical dilemmas one might face at work, at school, and even at home. The best way to prepare for any ethical eventuality is to know what ethics are and how to recognize ethical and unethical behavior in any given situation. The Ethics Game simulation at the University of Phoenix is a valuable tool for learning to recognized these situations. In the simulation one takes on the persona of a Quality Control Manager for a biotech company called G-BioSport. G-BioSport specializes in sports nutrition and supplements. In each of the two cases the simulation takes the student through, the student is asked to explore different ethical philosophies through a series of questions, and the student has to pick which one they find best. The purpose of these simulated situations is to help the student better marry ethical concepts to situations specific to their own desired industry; the point being to prepare them for managerial work and how to be a proper leader. In the scenario, G-BioSport is facing a rather large problem. Their quality control lab is behind on testing, and the products they are testing have already been released into the market. Contaminants, albeit in trace amounts, were found in one hundred percent of the samples the lab received, indicating that the problem is with one of the ingredients for which G-BioSport...
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...The ethics game simulation provided a glance into the stresses faced in the business world when confronted with an ethical dilemma. Where I do not believe this simulation provides a true representation of how one might think in the situation, I am confident that the lessons learned will assist in my remaining calm during a crisis. The Case of Fair Warning G-BioSport’s Quality Control department had been awarded a National QA award. Recently, the company had convinced the FDA to implement higher quality control standards. Meanwhile, the latest batch of products set for sampling had arrived (two weeks late). The results reflected 100% of samples testing positive for trace containments, indicating that the likelihood of the entire batch tainted is almost certain. The levels are well below current FDA standards, and should not cause adverse reactions in healthy adults; however, a chance of reaction exists in adults with decreased immune systems. Therefore, the question is whether to warn the public, and with what information. To address the situation, six steps were used. First, attentiveness was paid to the situation. One must ensure that all pertinent facts are gathered. Second, intelligence must be used to identify the primary stakeholders. Next, the situation must be reasoned by looked through two lenses: rights and responsibility and results. Next, the decision maker must make a responsible decision based on the best outcomes of the two lenses. Finally, a forward...
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...Ethics Game Simulation University of Phoenix MGT 216 November 7, 2010 G-Bio Sport’s Game Simulation Today I had the opportunity to experience the interactions of ethics and problematic dilemmas facing an organization through a game simulation. The simulation placed the role of quality control manager (QCM) as my title within an organization called “G-Bio Sport’s.” Additionally, I was tasked with two dilemmas involving ethical issues, and the various ethical perspectives that were used in my analysis and decision making to resolve the dilemmas. This journal will reflect the issues, steps, ethical perspective used to base decision on and influence it played, as well as the correlation of various concepts within the simulation with my workplace. Ethical Dilemma Issue (The Case of Fair Warning) In the first dilemma products contaminated with high levels of GBS-Fibranafren, one of G-Bio Sport’s patented ingredients, which over two-thirds of the company’s products contain where found to have slipped through quality control. The dilemma provoked an issue of what the best decision would be to initiate a resolution to the issue. The company concluded that in healthy adults there was extremely low risk, though those with low immune systems would be at a higher risk, this with repeated use. Decision Making Steps In coming to an ethical decision or basis, I first identified the issues (whether or not to recall, disseminate the information, refund or...
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...Running head: ETHICS GAME Ethics Game Simulation June 6, 2010 Ethics Game Simulation The simulation positions the idea of making ethical decisions when challenges arise in a business setting. Businesses will always go through trials and tribulations; it is how those challenges are overcome, which makes us stronger as individuals and as a company. How particular situations are handled is what people remember the most. The simulation geared us to think ethically and morally by positioning our posture to not surrender with greed, but that our customers are a detrimental part in how we should think and how we would want to be treated. Our shareholders are the number one reason why corporations excel and strive. Without them, businesses would doom as we see so much in this tough economy. During the simulation exercise, a decision was necessary when addressing two informed issues. G-Biosport was an ethical company that unfortunately went through unforeseen circumstances. The company selling domestically and internationally did not have to meet prior approvals from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The product left their facilities and the problem was made aware of the contaminant, after tests were run, which consumed 100% of their received samples of this known impurity. As being the quality manager, ethical decisions are warranted with proper decision making and planning to remedy the fluke. The simulation required decisions to be fostered, which sincerely are defended...
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...Ethics Game Simulation Luz Del Solar MGT/216 Lurleen Evans October 2011 Ethics Game Simulation Nowadays it is very hard to manage a business with good ethics and making profitable decisions at the same time, especially in a business world where the moral, values, and ethics are acceptable only after the profit is ensure. A valuable professional would make the difference and face the situations taking in to consideration ethics first. The ethics simulation game would provide two different dilemmas that would help the students to practice their managerial skills trying to make the best ethical decisions possible. In the simulation game, two dilemmas were presented. First the laboratory communicated to Quality Management that the analysis has shown that there is contaminant in the GBS – Fibranafren, which is an ingredient used in the majority of the company products. The results from the laboratory arrived after the products were already released and after taking into consideration the facts that everything indicates that the products are contaminated. However, the contamination is bellow FDA standards, and it would only affect a limited group of people with continued use of the product. The dilemma in this case is, whether the company should warn the consumers about the contamination and what kind of information should be provided to them. In the second scenario the FDA increased the official standards and under this new regulation the contaminated...
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...Ethics Game Simulation: Reflective Journal Susan Lopez University of Phoenix Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility/MGT/216 Dr. Arnold Bereson December 07, 2009 Ethics Game Simulation: Reflective Journal In the ethics game simulation I was the quality control manager and was given the responsibility of making some very difficult ethical decisions. The first decision I had to make was regarding fair warning. The company had determined that there was a contaminant in products that were already distributed for sale. They were looking at me to tell them what should be done about those products. In this case, I was asked to look at the dilemma through two lenses, first the Rights/Responsibility Lens and the Results Lens. Even though one lens focuses on the duty of doing what is ethical and the other focuses on creating the greatest good for the greatest number of people, I think that my decision was based on both of these. I decided the proper thing to do would be to publicize the information that would warn the consumers about the increased risk to specific groups of people and to replace or refund purchase price for a product they may already have. It turns out that this was the best option in the Results Lens. The reason for this decision is that I was considering what was best for both the company and the people. I believed that people definitely had the right to be warned so that they were not consuming a product that could cause them harm, but...
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...Ethics Game Simulation Jasmine Zeno BUS/216 June 4, 2012 Steven Fletcher Ethics Game Simulation G-Bio Sport is a business that provides their customers with health care enhancements. The ethical issues arise because the product had passed the FDA standards, however it did not pass its own in house standards. It was confirmed that the samples received had traces of contaminant in it. The quality control manager must identify the problems and come up with the best solution to save the business. G-Bio Sport has a very serious problem that cannot be sweep under the rug. The first question is what group of consumers to warn and provide information about the contaminant. G-Bio Sport has learned that the product on the market that is contaminated puts a small percentage of their consumers at risk. G-Bio Sports will need identify those consumers offer them a replacement of the tainted product or refund the purchase price. As the quality control manager the first thing that needs to be addressed is the product that is contaminated. The quality control manager also needs to provide their consumers that are at risk with the information on the increase risk of using their product. This allows the consumer to make their own choices on rather to use the product or not. Consumers have the right to know that if a product they are using will cause the harm. Businesses have to remember that their customers keep them in business by buying their product. The quality control manager...
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...The Ethics Game Simulation November 11, 2010 The Ethics Game Simulation This paper will discuss the ethical issues, the decision-making steps, perspectives used, and lenses chosen which helped to influence management decisions. These concepts will show strong correlations within the current workplace environment. The Quality Control Manager is responsible for documentation of test results and drafts regular production reports. This position helps G-BioSports to maintain their high standards and quality assurance within their industry. The first scenario took place after the Lab Director informed the Quality Control Manager that specimens received at his lab were found with a trace contamination of 100% in all the samples. Unfortunately these results were two weeks late and products from these specimens had already been released and shipped out to consumers. Although the contamination found was well below FDA standards, the QCM is faced with many concerning issues and decisions to be made. A few examples are; who needed to be informed and how quickly, how would information should be disseminated without creating a threat or scare to the public and stakeholders. How serious was this contamination and how much product was actually sent out. This also includes to what degree of ethics and legal concerns would need to address. Nevertheless, there are many concerning factors. As a manager, gathering all the facts is an important first step. Who to inform and how this information...
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...Ethics game simulation A principle exists as a feature or quality believed to be ethically outstanding and therefore is appreciated as a base of ethics and good start for a decent living being. Personal qualities are features cherished as promoting personal and communal comfort. G-BioSport is a business that supplies sports nourishment and supplements to its consumers. The company adheres to the modern Foodstuffs and Drug Administration (FDA) principles with their commodities. Nevertheless, new lab tests disclose traces of contagion in the total of the GBS-Fibranafren tests carries out. The liability is present in the Quality Control (QC) executive to recognize the problem and put the solution into practice. These recreations lay out the QC executive with numerous states of affairs and resolutions to two primary problems. Each recreation presents confronts in cooperation with the ethical and honest aspects involved. The first recreation displays the QC executive with lab results exemplify 100% pollution of the products investigated. A number of these tests are acquired from the commodities themselves in the market and under the ownership of the consumers. With such information, the matter shifts from whether or not to caution and what knowledge to offer to customers concerning the control of the contaminated commodities. What decision-making steps did you take to ethically address these issues? Considering the fact that business ethics exists as an outline of functional...
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...Ethics Game Simulation Preston Anderson HCS/478 11-03-2014 Dr. Lora S. Lee, RN What are Ethical Issues? The first ethical dilemma presented was between a parent's religious beliefs and wanted the safety of their daughter to be left to God and what was ethically and legally the responsibility of the hospital. The parents wanted limited medication and medical assistance for their daughter. The limited use of medication caused the labor to be prolonged and was starting to put the fetus in distress. The nursing supervisor had to determine when to intervene so that mother and fetus would continue to safe, and the mother could have a healthy delivery. The fist steps were to determine whom the stakeholders were and how any decision made by the supervisor would affect each of them. Determining what ethical lens was being used and how to use that lens would ultimately determine how to solve the dilemma. The rights and responsibility lens were used. The rights and responsibility lens was used in this case. It was necessary to be attentive, intelligent, responsible and reflective. I first needed to be aware of the facts of the case. While evaluating the facts, I realize that the parents wanted the child to feel the pain and shame of what she had done based on their religious beliefs. I do not, however, believed that the parents wanted their daughter to suffer irreparable harm. I Identifying the stakeholders and how they would be affected and which stakeholder would be affected...
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...University of Phoenix Material Ethics Game Simulation Worksheet Student Name: ________________ Facilitator: ______________ Complete the interactive Ethics Game Simulation, located on the student website. You will only be able to go through the simulation once, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation will use 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 assure that you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Case of the Troubled Teen | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be Attentive | |4 | | |Your notes: | | | | | | | | | | |Step 2 ...
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...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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...Reflective Journal on Ethics Game Simulation Maria R. Brook HCS/478 Health Law and Ethics January 23rd, 2012 Caroline Etland, PhD, RN Reflective Journal on Ethics Game Simulation In this journal I will write my reflections on two ethical dilemmas presented in Ethics Game's online simulation, which has been designed to teach students how to make ethical decisions through a practical and repeatable decision model. Ethical Issue #1 Presented During my Shift Near the beginning of my shift last night, we admitted a 16-year-old mother, RB. She's in her tenth hour of labor now. Her parents have been with her, and they have chosen to limit the amount of medication and other medical assistance we've administered for personal reasons. Given the length of her labor, however, her situation could worsen. Fetal distress is not currently critical, but it has been increasing gradually, as has RB’s own distress and fear. We have been keeping a close eye on her. I'm not sure her parents understand how dangerous her situation could get because RB and the baby may be moving toward irreversible medical danger if some intervention is not made. Ethical Issue #2 Presented During my Shift One of our ICU's patients, AT, has been unconscious for nearly a day and as yet no definitive diagnosis has been reached by doctors. AT was brought to the hospital by his domestic partner, YM, who was with him while he was in the ER, but was prevented from visiting him in the ICU by CB, the shift supervisor...
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...goals, not gaming or fun. On the other hand, the ‘entertainment’ strand of children’s software is more geared towards attracting children. By featuring an open-ended, exploratory online environment and fantasy worlds rather than goal-oriented games, the entertainment genre advertises to a more youthful target audience comprised of children who seek adventure, imagination, pleasure, exploration, and creativity, in contrast to the academic strand’s learning and reflecting goals. However, I would like to focus on the last genre, construction. After defining what the constructivist approach symbolizes, I will use the example of the online gaming series, “The Sims,” to show how this genre differs from the academic and entertainment types in terms of content, benefits, and advertising techniques. The construction genre is often also called authoring, for it involves a player who is the writer, builder, or creator. “This constructivist approach focuses less on conveying academic or cultural content and more on providing tools for construction and tinkering… They draw less on explicit educational ideologies or images of play and more on images of mastery and control” (101). This genre integrates both education and entertainment, in a way. The games...
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...The online business simulaTion game ThaT makes learning fun! Player manual Contents game basics Starting a game Finding your way around 2 3 Core activities Ordering product Making sales Increasing your sales Hiring staff game score Key Indicators Game characters 4 6 Checking progress Current week Stock levels Purchase reporting systems Check effect of promotions Financial reports Customer comments options a-Z system requirements faQ: game sites 7 8 8 9 The online business simulaTion game ThaT makes learning fun! Game basics The Small Business Game is an educational game where you run your own sport franchise store (The Sports Store). Each full game starts at week 1 and moves through to week 52 when the game ends. You can leave and come back at any time – we will save the game from your last week of inputs. A game week is pretty much like any week in a retail sports store business. Each week customers come in, browse and (maybe) buy a product from you. Each week you need to make sure that you have enough stock for people to buy, manage your cash and keep you eye on what is happening. starting a game During the registration process you assigned a team. This selection will set up the branding to be used in the game. Once you have been registered for the game, to get started, follow these steps. Click, ‘play now’ from any screen in the web site. To start a new game, click on the ‘new game’ button. To restart...
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