Ethical Game-Assignment|Ethical Lens and Leadership

Assignment: Ethical Lens and Leadership

To begin this assignment, you must take the Ethical Lens Inventory in the EthicsGame. Then, you will examine times in your life where you’ve applied your preferred lens, either well or not so well. You will also examine the ethical theories and theorists associated with your lens.

In this assignment, you will be assessed by the following Course Outcome:

GB590-1: Synthesize consequentialism (results) theories within business conflicts of interest.

This assignment requires that you complete the Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI), for which you will receive 15 points. Once completed, you will write a paper that answers the following questions:

1. Report the findings of your ELI. Include your overall type and the strength of the type as reported on the two axes. Be sure to cite your findings and do not copy and paste information from your ELI results into your paper. Use your own words.
2. Summarize the ethical theories associated with your type. This section requires at least three scholarly references. Again, assure you use your own words, and do not copy and paste information from your research into your paper. Assure you discuss the theories and seminal theorists behind your lens (see the conceptual maps that precede the chapter covering your specific lens for guidance).
3. Provide AT LEAST one example of how you have applied your preferred lens in a personal or professional setting that reflects your lens’s strengths, with special consideration to the consequences of your action.
4. Provide AT LEAST one example of how you have applied your preferred lens in a personal or professional setting that reflects your lens’s weaknesses with special consideration to the consequences of your action.
5. Discuss how you will use your knowledge of your preferred lens when managing or leading others, with special consideration to the consequences of your actions.
6. Discuss how you will overcome the challenges of your lens when leading or managing, with special consideration to the consequences of your action.
7. Because this week’s focus is on the Results Lens, using your first example, what would you have done had your ELI showed you preferred the Results Lens? Be sure to apply Utilitarian Theory in your answer. (If your ELI outcome was the Results Lens, there is no need to do this part.)

Criteria:

• Your assignment should have a cover sheet with the following information: Title of the paper, your name, course and section number, and date.
• It must be a minimum of 2–3 pages long (excluding title page, references, etc.).
• Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion.
• Be sure to include the criteria located in the rubric below within your paper.
• It must be APA 7th edition formatted with citations to your sources and your last page should list all references used. Review the APA formats found in the Writing Center.
• You must use at least three scholarly, high quality, and current sources. Peer-reviewed articles, articles published in journals, textbooks, and library resources found in the Library are examples of high quality resources.

Note that Wikipedia, Investopedia, etc. are not considered as reliable resources for this research.

Access the Assignment grading rubric located in the Course Resources area.

For assistance with current APA 7th edition, see the reading area of this unit.

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Descriptions of my ethical lense found in the ethics game:

Your preferred ethical lens is: Blended Results and Reputation Lens

Considered Sensibility and No Preference between Autonomy and Equality (CSNP)

Your listen to your intuition and feelings (sensibility) to determine the greatest good for yourself and others (autonomy) and to determine what virtues you should develop to demonstrate ethical excellence in community.

Your Primary Values show how you prioritize the tension between rationality and sensibility as well as autonomy and equality.

Your primary values are Sensibility and no preference between Autonomy and Equality

Your value preferences place you between two lenses, the Results Lens and the Reputation Lens. Those with a Results Lens focus tend to define ethical success as having their actions and attitudes create good results for themselves and others. Those with a Reputation Lens focus tend to define ethical success as having others who are important to them in their various communities think highly of their expertise and character—when they have a good reputation.

You have a considered preference for the value of sensibility (CS)— following your heart—over rationality—following your head. As a CS, your passions and emotions provide you with energy as you seek your heart’s desires. You eloquently frame the narrative of your life in terms of being all you can be. You strive to embody the ideals of your roles and attain your chosen goals as you seek the greatest good.

You have no preference between the values of autonomy and equality. Defending the right of everyone to choose how they will live is important to you—but not if those rights come at the expense of the community’s wellbeing.

Your balance between these values may be a struggle, where you believe everyone should choose their own path but worry that such freedom could lead to anarchy or a lack of integrity. Or, your balance could be a more harmonious blend of the two values.

Know Yourself

Pay attention to your beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

The first step to ethical agility and maturity is to carefully read the description of your own ethical lens. While you may resonate with elements of other lenses, when you are under stress or pressure, you’ll begin your ethical analysis from your home lens. So, becoming familiar with both the gifts and the blind spots of your lens is useful. For more information about how to think about ethics as well as hints for interpreting your results, look at the information under the ELI Essentials and Exploring the ELI on the menu bar.

Understanding Your Ethical Lens

Over the course of history, four different ethical perspectives, which we call the Four Ethical Lenses, have guided people in making ethical decisions. Each of us has an inherited bias towards community that intersects with our earliest socialization. As we make sense of our world, we develop an approach to ethics that becomes our ethical instinct—our gut reaction to value conflicts. The questions you answered were designed to determine your instinctual approach to your values preferences. These preferences determine your placement on the Ethical Lens Inventory grid, seen on the right side of this page.

The dot on the grid shows which ethical lens you prefer and how strong that preference is. Those who land on or close to the center point do not have a strong preference for any ethical lens and may instead resonate with an approach to ethics that is concerned with living authentically in the world rather than one that privileges one set of values over another.

Each of the paragraphs below describes an ethical trait—a personal characteristic or quality that defines how you begin to approach ethical problems. For each of the categories, the trait describes the values you believe are the most important as well as the reasons you give for why you make particular ethical decisions.

To see how other people might look at the world differently, read the descriptions of the different ethical lenses under the tab Ethical Lenses on the menu bar. The “Overview of the Four Ethical Lenses” can be printed to give you a quick reference document. Finally, you can compare and contrast each ethical trait by reading the description of the trait found under the Traits menu. Comparing the traits of your perspective to others helps you understand how people might emphasize different values and approach ethical dilemmas differently.

As you read your ethical profile and study the different approaches, you’ll have a better sense of what we mean when we use the word “ethics.” You’ll also have some insight into how human beings determine what actions are—or are not—ethical.

The Snapshot gives you a quick overview of your ethical lens.

Your snapshot shows you pursuing goals to create the greatest good while building an ethically excellent community.

The Results Lens represents the family of ethical theories known as consequentialism, where you use your emotions and intuition to determine your highest and best results in life, including the kind of person you want to become. Identifying which lofty goals contribute to the greatest good provides normative guidance for determining which actions in a specific situation should count as ethical.

The Reputation Lens represents the family of ethical theories known as virtue ethics, where to determine what actions are ethical, you consider what habitual qualities of being—virtues—are required to demonstrate ethical excellence in the various roles you have in your community.

At times, you may find either of these theories persuasive. In your virtuous pursuit of your goals, you explore your own desires and strive to become the best expression of yourself. Your character and conscience might set the boundaries for your goals to keep you from becoming too greedy. Or, your focus on goals might help shape your idea of a good character, so you better serve the community by guiding it to better outcomes.