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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?
You are working in a teacher's office and notice another student downloading copyrighted software to a recordable CD. The student is proud of his accomplishment and shows you how to complete this download and asks if you want a copy.
You work part-time for a local computer programming company. One of the programmers lends you a software program that he developed and plans to market. No one has registered the program with the copyright office. A friend at school asks you to make him a copy. After you refuse, he asks to borrow it for one day. What would you do?
You recently purchased a software program. You discover that the program does not meet your needs. You realize, however, that it would meet your needs if you "broke into" the coded program and made a few changes. Should you change the program?
Mary and Tim are best friends. Both owned home computers and were experience programmers. They are also very knowledgeable about how their school's computer system is used. It is used to manage student records, to schedule classes, to maintain inventories, and to manage the school's financial records. In fact, Tim knows more about the system than most of his teachers. He helped the principal with the school's system. The principal has a great deal of trust in Tim and is quite lax about the security of the system whenever Tim is around. Although Tim was never granted access to confidential files, he knows that he could easily break into the system. He could do so by using either the school computer or his home computer.
For the first time in her life, Mary has failed a class. She strongly believes that her teacher was unfair in giving her the "F." Mary is afraid of what her parents would say and do when they see her report card. She is also concerned about the effect the grade might have on her attending college. Mary is thinking about changing her grade, which is stored in the computer file, before the report cards are printed. To change her grade, she needs the system's password to gain access to the file. She asks Tim for the password. Tim does not want his friend to receive a failing grade. What should he do?
Suppose that Tim refuses to help Mary, but Mary does so on her own. She tells Tim about it, after he has promised not to tell anybody "her secret." Now, what does Tim do?
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March 5th, 2001.
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