Every year, Texas Tech sponsors a contest called the Matador Ethics Video Challenge. Students compete to see who can produce the best video promoting ethical behavior at the university and in the surrounding community. Here is one of the 2010 entries:
1) Suppose that after watching the viseo, you reported an incident of academic dishonesty to one of your professors. Your actions would be most similar to those of _______ in an organization.
(A) an ethical leader (B) a chief ethics officer (C) a whistleblower
2) To be effective, codes of ethics must be supported and ________ by senior management.
(A) enforced (B) revised (C) written
On November 8, 2010, over 600 students in an MBA capstone course at the University of Central Florida sat down to take a midterm exam. By November 10, it was clear to Richard Quinn, the professor of the class, that many of those students had cheated on the exam. Research showed that approximately 200 of the students had access to the test bank from which the exam questions were drawn. Quinn was extremely disappointed in his class, especcially since he had a special section in his syllabus that contained a set of ethical guidelines related to student behavior. He announced that all of the students in the class would have to retake the midterm exam, which would contain an entirely new set of questions. In addition he told the class that although he was very close to finding out exactly who had cheated on the exam, he was willing to make them the following offer: If the cheating students would turn themselves in, they would not be punished, as long as they were willing to take a four-hour course on ethics. Quinn had arrive at this solution after discussing the matter with the university ethics committee.
When asked about the incident, several of the students inthe class said that they heard Professor Quinn say that he would be preparing the test for the class himself. They assumed that this meant he would not be using a prepublished test bank. Thus, when they received the test bank, they thought that it was a study guide. When they found out that Professor Quinn had used a test bank, they questioned Professor Quinn's ethics.
1) The way Professor Quinn chose to handle this situation illustrates the difficulty of dealing with ethics violations. Listed as follows are several ways that corporations try to encourage ethical behavior in their employees. Which of these techniques do you see used in this senario? Chech all that apply.
(A) Referring ethical dilemmas to an ethics committee
(B) Establishing a code of ethics
(C) Providing support for whistleblowers
(D) Providing ethics training for employees
2) Most professors and publishers will tell you that there is nothing unethical about using published test banks. But suppose that the University of Central Florida decided to tell their professors explicitly that using prepublished test banks is unethical at UCF and that any professor that uses such test banks will be fired for doing so. This information would be found in the university's code of ethics, more specifically in a ___________.
(A) principles-based statement (B) corporate credo (C) policy-based statement (D) vision statement