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    This document provides guidelines for a writing assignment on business ethics. Students are asked to play a simulation game called "Moral Minefield" and then answer 4 questions reflecting on and analyzing the scenarios presented in the game. The questions require students to copy their game scores, reflect on difficult or surprising scenarios, explain and analyze one scenario in terms of a business ethics theory covered in the course readings, and discuss how the ethics concepts could apply to their own jobs or experiences.

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    Moral Minefield

    Assignment Guidelines
    For the following questions, be sure to connect to the reading material in your book. This is a writing
    assignment, so answers should be written in complete and coherent sentences and paragraphs. Answers
    in the A range will refer to the text and fully explain how the concepts learned in the text apply to the
    question.

    You may type your answers directly into this document after the prompts, save it, and then upload it into
    the submission box.

    Play through the Moral Minefield level for this week and answer the following questions:

    1. Copy and paste (or screenshot) your Level overview and scores. You can find this information
    again in your Overview & Profile.
    2. Reflect on the scenarios presented in the game. Was there anything you found particularly
    difficult? Anything that surprised you?

    I have played two other EI simulation games before this one, and I have to say, Business Ethics has
    been the easiest one for me to get right. In real life, these decisions can be much harder to make
    due to the pushback you are almost guaranteed to get from stakeholders in any project, but from
    an outside and/or simulated perspective like this it is easy to see that of course you tell the
    shareholders that we have had setbacks in the past year, of course you tell your new acquisition
    that the stocks will go down before they go up, and of course you delay a pharmaceutical to
    protect the consumers even if it isn’t a proven risk.

    3. Explain one of the decision-making scenarios you were given in this level and analyze it in terms
    of one of this week’s theories. (Note: for full credit, be sure you name the theory you are using,
    explain the theory fully, and then explain how the scenario illustrates that theory)

    Utilitarianism, according to Mick Fryer in Ethics Theory & Business Practice, “judges the ethicality
    of actions in relation to their propensity to promote desirable things like benefit, advantage,
    pleasure and happiness, and to avoid undesirable things like mischief, pain, evil and
    unhappiness… As far as utilitarianism is concerned, an ethically right action is one which…
    maximizes the good.” Utilitarianism is a form of ethics that focuses on what will bring the most
    good (or avoid the most bad) to the most people. However, I don’t believe that it is necessarily the
    best way to approach every ethical question. For example, question 5 in the EI Games Business
    Ethics simulation concerns an executive plan to “circumvent termination practices and pressure
    an employee into leaving.” This employee has affected company performance negatively and isn’t
    necessarily an asset to the company even if she hasn’t done anything actively wrong. I believe the
    most ethical move would be to take action and inform human resources, because retaliation and
    forcing people out of a company isn’t a fair nor ethical approach. However, from a utilitarian
    perspective, it might be argued that more “good” will come from allowing the executives to push
    her out – the company will probably do better which will improve stock value, shareholder
    happiness, customer satisfaction, and even employee pay and work experience. Interfering and
    going through HR protects the individual employee. The only good for the many that this would
    provide is the knowledge that HR would probably protect each of them as well in similar
    circumstances. Would letting her be pushed out be the utilitarian thing to do? Probably. Do the
    ends justify the means? I don’t think so.

    4. How could you use the concepts discussed in this simulation in your job today? Relate these
    concepts to the other course materials and to your own experiences. (Note: for full credit, be sure
    discuss a specific scenario, a specific example from your own experiences, and a specific connection to
    something you learned from the text)

    I currently work as a shift supervisor at Starbucks, and I think I use the overarching theme of
    keeping people informed from level one of the Business Ethics simulation every day. I think it is
    one of the most important things in business to keep both employee and consumer as in the know
    and informed as possible, so that each individual can make the best choice for themselves based
    on their needs, wants, and beliefs. I believe any person in any level of power and/or more
    informed has the “duty of care to state the facts” as referenced in question 1 of the simulation. I
    also agree with the proposition in question 7 that “withholding of vital information can also be
    seen as misrepresentation.” In order to avoid this, I tend to go in the other direction altogether,
    making sure the people I manage at Starbucks have as much information as I do about what is
    going on with our store and the company overall. The Universal Declaration of Human rights does
    mention the right to receive and impart information once, and though it might not be explicitly
    stated in the text, I think that every stakeholder in a project and/or company has the right to know
    what is going on within the company, excluding highly or necessarily confidential items. The text
    also mentions the “merits of democratic decision making” in business being promoted by theorists
    and practitioners and the disconnect to the reality in which “people who are employed in large
    businesses spend a substantial part of their lives in autocratic systems that allow them very little
    say in how things are done.” I am only one step up from the very lowest ranking Starbucks
    employee – I don’t personally have a lot of power to change the way things are done and the
    decisions that are made at the very top. However, I do have the power and, in my opinion,
    obligation to provide as much autonomy and inclusion in the decision making process as I can to
    the people below me. Therefore, I strive to be transparent and invite them to be involved every
    day.

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