The Ethics Awareness Inventory provides tremendous insight into an individual’s personal perspectives and reasoning in decision making. Through a series of carefully crafted questions, the Ethics Awareness Inventory uses four potential categories of ethical perspectives to provide an overview of one’s ethical considerations and how these are used in personal decision making. In completion of my personal Ethics Awareness Inventory I learned, only somewhat surprisingly that my decisions are based primarily on consideration of obligation and least based on equity.
The results of my Ethics Awareness Inventory show that I make decisions based on my duty and obligation to do what I believe is right and just. In reflection of my personal life, and in keeping with this finding I note that I have strong tendencies to consider the intention behind actions rather than judging actions based solely on their own merit. I also find this to hold true in my professional life. I hold an inclination that actions and decisions the individual should reflect the obligation and the duty to provide for the rights, responsibilities, and collective goal of the whole. I value the means as much or more than the ends that they produce. This may very well also be reflective of my educational career. I hold strong opinions on honesty and integrity in completion of school work and I find that my sense of personal responsibility makes plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty to be deplorable. My educational experience has taught me that others may make decisions differently than I; it is in the best interest of the community to develop respect even for those who approach problems from different ethical perspectives.
Others who make personal and professional and educational decisions based on different ethical perspectives may have once found me cross with their decision making. This is due to