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Every scenario has multiple solutions. Try to come up with several solutions to each scenario and then examine your solutions using the following value assessment criteria. If you are working in a group, have each member select their personal course of action. Then use the discussion folder assigned to you to evaluate each members' course of action using the criteria below. Remember, no solution should be discounted; make no judgment as to whether a solution is right or wrong.
In examining a solution, consider these concepts:
- Your aversion to punishment.
- Is your solution legal?
- Does it comply with company or school policies?
- Your image.
- Would you like to be analyzed on 60 Minutes?
- Would you be proud to tell your friends or family?
- How will the decision make you feel about yourself?
- Your responsibility.
- Would your decision be fair for all people?
- Do you owe any loyalty to anyone? To what extent?
- How would you behave in a similar situation in a different setting?
- Does your solution actually solve the problem? How long term of a solution is it?
- Your capacity to affect others.
- If you were one of the others involved, how would you see it?
- Could your decision hurt or injure others?
- What if everyone took your course of action?
- How would your decision affect the organization or school as a whole?
Mr. Peace found an excellent article on getting a job for teens, which was published in Scholastic Magazine. He thinks that it would be really valuable for students to read and suggests that you reprint the article. Assume you are the editor of your school newspaper. You are in charge of deciding what goes into the paper. What do you do?
Diane is a design engineer who uses the Internet in her work. She has found a web site published by another furniture manufacturer in the same geographic region as her company's. The web site gives detailed specifications for some furniture that Diane thinks her company can produce. She gives the exact same design and specifications to her supervisor as if it were her own work. She e-mails a co-worker with the truth of the situation. The owner is pleased with this new design and makes plans to produce and market the product. Diane receives an award and bonus check for $8000 for "her" ideas. What should this co-worker do?
Finally, the day has come; the teacher is handing back the computer printout of all of your grades and your semester average. You did great; you earned your "A" and will still graduate as valedictorian of the your senior class. It was a lot of pressure, but you made it. That evening you sit down to look over the grade sheet and you note that the teacher entered several scores which were not yours. In recalculating the grade with the correct scores, you determine that your semester grade will no longer be an "A."
Jane was mailed an incorrect bill for $4,000 from IRS. She cannot afford the payment and desperately needs the $1,300 that she is actually due. She has been counting on the $1,300 to help pay her bills, which include the car payment that she has not been able to pay because of the hospital bills for her sick son. Jane calls the IRS to explain the error and they inform them that "it will take 4-8 weeks to correct the compute error, if one has been made." In the meantime, Jane worries and cannot sleep at night. The bank takes her car away because she cannot make the payments. Two months later she receives the correct check and an explanation. There were two people in the same city with the same name and the IRS's computer had mailed the check for $1,300 to the wrong "Jane." What might Jane do?
