Homework
Create a six-slide, 12 minutes presentation briefing a team on a potential ethical dilemma.
Context
In the career for which you are preparing, where will you look for ethical guidance?
i. Employer: contractual obligations, employee handbook, corporate culture.
ii. Colleagues: fellow workers, deserving respect, productive relationships.
iii. Clients: honest treatment, service with dignity, contractual obligations.
iv. Profession: fellow practitioners, counterbalance to employer, code of conduct.
v. Personal: individual commitments, personal responsibility, integrity.
All of these overlapping concerns may create conflicted situations. Professional association codes of ethics commonly deal with a number of concerns:
i. Expertise: qualifications for practitioners, continuing education.
ii. Research: informed consent, plagiarism, shared publication credit.
iii. Privacy: record keeping, protecting confidentiality, public statements.
iv. Relationships: harassment, conflicts of interest, workplace behavior.
No matter how extensively the professional code is spelled out, it cannot cover everything, and it often overemphasizes enforcement. It is more helpful to take a positive approach, thinking aspirationally about how best to handle challenging situations
Questions to Consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.
i. What concrete situations in your workplace might give rise to ethical dilemmas?
ii. Does the professional code of conduct provide
Overview
Imagine management at your future workplace tasks you with making a formal presentation to your team discussing a workplace ethical dilemma they might face. You consider an appropriate professional code of conduct, but only to the extent that it might offer useful guidance in this situation. The central task is to help everyone work together productively in resolving tricky issues.
For this homework, fulfill the management task and create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to common workplace situations. Submit your work as a narrated visual presentation in the courseroom submission box. You may develop a series of annotated PowerPoint slides, for example, using Kaltura to record the audio portion of your work. If you are more familiar with other presentation software, you may use that, so long as your submission satisfies all of the required elements of the homework.
Instructions
Include the following in your narrated visual presentation:
i. Apply a professional code of ethics to this workplace situation.
ii. Assess the advantages and disadvantages of the selected professional code of ethics.
iii. Explain methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.
iv. Describe areas of one's personal disagreement with professional standards.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.