Moral Minefield Assignment Week 1
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Moral Minefield
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For the following questions, be sure to connect to the reading material in your book. This is a writing assignment, so answers should be written in complete and coherent sentences and paragraphs. Answers in the A range will refer to the text and fully explain how the concepts learned in the text apply to the question. You may type your answers directly into this document after the prompts, save it, and then upload it into the submission box. Play through the Moral Minefield level for this week and answer the following questions:
1.
Copy and paste (or screenshot) your Level overview and scores. You can find this information again in your Overview & Profile.
2.
Reflect on the scenarios presented in the game. Was there anything you found particularly difficult? Anything that surprised you?
The first scenario, whether or not to discuss recent failures in a companywide CEO briefing was challenging for me to decide. On one hand, I see how leaving the failures out is a good thing. You want to motivate and look towards the future and not dwell on failures. That is something to discuss in private with the management involved and how to improve. I chose to not disclose it, which was wrong. Looking back, I see how bringing it up and addressing it head on is a better choice.
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Explain one of the decision-making scenarios you were given in this level and analyze it in terms of one of this week’s theories.
(Note: for full credit, be sure you name the theory you are using, explain the theory fully, and then explain how the scenario illustrates that theory)
In one scenario, the R&D Director is pushing for a product launch to be moved up by 4 weeks, despite the Strategist's concerns about the need for further investigation into clinical trial side effects. Opting for the accelerated schedule ensures meeting the product's introduction deadline but raises safety risks. Also, sticking to the original timetable provides more time and reduces safety concerns but opens the possibility of competition outpacing the project. This can be related to the stakeholder theory, where there are Influential Stakeholders, and Affected Stakeholders. Influential Stakeholders are individuals who can make decisions for a company, or
“people who have this first type of relationship with a business is to say that they are able to contribute in
some way to the success of the business or to influence its success.” (Fryer, 2015). Like the R&R Director, he wants to accelerate the schedule, ignoring the new clinical trials just to be able to meet a deadline and to drive the stock price up. The customers who will be taking this medicine are considered the Affected Stakeholders. This means that “stakeholders who are in some way impacted by the activities of the business.” (Fryer, 2015) If the product comes out and has a ton of negative side effects, the patient is the one who affected by the actions of the company.
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How could you use the concepts discussed in this simulation in your job today? Relate these concepts to the other course materials and to your own experiences. (Note: for full credit, be sure discuss a specific scenario, a specific example from your own experiences, and a specific connection to something you learned from the text)
Continuing on about the Influential Stakeholders, there are plenty of ways I can be aware and even use that concept at my job. I currently work at Airbus, one of the largest aircraft manufactures in the world. My job is to carry out operational tests on the avionics systems once the plane is fully assembled and functional. What if I skipped certain steps in my job, or falsified the results of a test, just to meet a deadline? Sure, I might be something small now, and the plane gets sold on time, but what happens when the plane is flying and crashes? The stakeholders would be the Affected Stakeholders, pushing to meet deadlines, and the customer and passengers flying on the plane would be the Affected Stakeholders who we have to think about in every step of our process.
SOURCES: Fryer, Mick. Ethics Theory and Business Practice. 1st ed., SAGE, 2015.
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