Phi/105 Appendix C

Axia College Material

Appendix C

Ethical Decisions Scenario Analysis

For each of the following scenarios answer the questions and explain whether your answers fit with traditional or modern ethical thinking. After you have finished responding to the scenarios, discuss whether you generally make ethical decisions using a traditional or a modern ethical model. Provide an example using an experience you have had in your daily life.  

Scenario One:You are a manager at your current company. You receive a call requesting a character reference for an employee you know to be unreliable and dishonest but who has not broken any rule directly.  a. What should you tell the prospective employer?  b. What type of information would you tell the prospective employer? c. How would what you share be to your advantage or disadvantage? |

Response to Questions: A) I would answer all the questions that the prospective employer had for me and without coming out and saying that this employee is the unreliable, dishonest and has not broken a rule directly I would try and explain to the best of my ability about the former employee’s performance. B) I could tell the prospective employer about attendance, and in which manner did the previous employee handle direction, or job assignments. C) The information that I would be sharing could be to my advantage if I do not sound like I am “bitter, or out for revenge”. If I handle it completely professional, with grace and dignity. This could all be at a disadvantage because no matter how professional, intelligent, and well I speak of the things the previous employee did do well, he/she (the previous employee) can say the derogatory things are all a lie, and the prospective employer has no way of know who or what to believe at that point. |

Scenario Two:Mike is currently enrolled in a challenging course. His personal life is also unusually complicated by his seriously ill mother who lives out of state. Mike...