25 Nov 2020
An Ethics-Focused Decision-Making Model
- Determine the Facts
- Identify the Ethical Issues Involved
- Identify All the Stakeholders
- Delineate (and/or Create) Alternative Courses of Action
- Assess How the Alternatives will Affect Stakeholders
- Seek Guidance
- Make a Decision; Act; Monitor the Outcome(s)
Make sure to Analyze the Apple Battery Scandal case that pay attention on the ethical issues involved.
Total Maximum 7 pages, no exceed allowed.
There are 7 steps on the model. Make sure to write every single one of them.
Each paragraph contains one single step.
7 paragraphs needed.
The sub-step details are posted below, also available in the file. Make sure to write the sub-step into every paragraph.
- Determine the Facts
- Resist an immediate “judgment call”
- Be aware of how sports, for example, has influenced all of us to make quick choices of what is within the rules
- Reference Librarians
- Authors
- Researchers
- Professors
- Pastors
- Check multiple sources of information
- Differentiate between “facts” and “assumptions”
- Resist an immediate “judgment call”
- Identify the Ethical Issues Involved
- Are there dimensions of “right and wrong”; “fair or unfair”; “good or bad”?
- Identify All the Stakeholders
- Who (Groups) and how many?
- Delineate (and/or Create) Alternative Courses of Action
- Generate at least two different courses (Do something or do nothing.)
- Assess How the Alternatives will Affect Stakeholders
- Determine beneficial versus harmful consequences
- Consider the Law
- Recognize your own potential “conflict of interest”
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a. Close friends
Seek Guidance
b. People you respect
c. Knowledge sources
i. Subject matter experts
ii. Reference Librarians
iii. Authors
iv. Researchers
v. Professors
vi. Pastors - Make a Decision; Act; Monitor the Outcome(s) a.Make a choice b.Do something constructive c.Be prepared to DEFEND your choice with logical, persuasive arguments d.“All Solutions Just Create Different Problems”—Follow up and Correct
Remember, It’s a very detail paper! Don’t try to skip any steps or the sub-steps ! The professor is very strict! Follow the steps and make the analysis clear is all we need!