Ethical Values
Chapter 4
Addressing Individuals’ Common Ethical Problems
Contents: (Please note: the Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.)
1. Chapter Outline
2. Teaching Notes
3. In-Class Exercises
4. Homework Assignments
5. Additional Resources
Chapter Outline
I. Introduction A. Indentifying Your Values – and Voicing Them
II. People Issues
A. Discrimination
B. Harassment, Sexual and Otherwise
III. Conflicts of Interest
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
IV. Customer Confidence Issues
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
V. Use of Corporate Resources
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
VI. When All Else Fails: Blowing the Whistle
A. When to Blow the Whistle
B. How to Blow the Whistle
VII. Conclusion
VIII. Discussion Questions
IX. Short Cases
Teaching Notes - Discussion Questions
1. What do you value? Can you make a list of the three or four values you would stand up for? How will you explain to others what your values are and why?
This is the perfect place to begin linking the values exercises you (hopefully) did with your students in Chapter 2, with why it is important to identify their values. It is difficult, if not impossible, to voice values, if you have no idea what your values are! Go to the “Giving Voice to Values” website: (http://www3.babson.edu/babson2ndgen/GVV/default.cfm.
There are many exercises available there, which can help you teach the importance of identifying values and then provide tools you can use to help students begin to practice voicing their values.
2. Have you ever practiced raising an ethical issue to a professor or to your manager? What did you do? What were the results?
Again, see “Giving Voice to Values.” This would make a great homework assignment.
Addressing Individuals’ Common Ethical Problems
Contents: (Please note: the Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.)
1. Chapter Outline
2. Teaching Notes
3. In-Class Exercises
4. Homework Assignments
5. Additional Resources
Chapter Outline
I. Introduction A. Indentifying Your Values – and Voicing Them
II. People Issues
A. Discrimination
B. Harassment, Sexual and Otherwise
III. Conflicts of Interest
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
IV. Customer Confidence Issues
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
V. Use of Corporate Resources
A. What Is It?
B. How Can We Think About This Issue?
C. Why Is It an Ethical Problem?
D. Costs
VI. When All Else Fails: Blowing the Whistle
A. When to Blow the Whistle
B. How to Blow the Whistle
VII. Conclusion
VIII. Discussion Questions
IX. Short Cases
Teaching Notes - Discussion Questions
1. What do you value? Can you make a list of the three or four values you would stand up for? How will you explain to others what your values are and why?
This is the perfect place to begin linking the values exercises you (hopefully) did with your students in Chapter 2, with why it is important to identify their values. It is difficult, if not impossible, to voice values, if you have no idea what your values are! Go to the “Giving Voice to Values” website: (http://www3.babson.edu/babson2ndgen/GVV/default.cfm.
There are many exercises available there, which can help you teach the importance of identifying values and then provide tools you can use to help students begin to practice voicing their values.
2. Have you ever practiced raising an ethical issue to a professor or to your manager? What did you do? What were the results?
Again, see “Giving Voice to Values.” This would make a great homework assignment.