General Principles of Intellectual Property: Concepts of Intellectual Proper...
Ethical Decision Making
1. Welcome to Ethical Fitness Brad Lund (Caulfeild) Phil Pereira (Rockridge)
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3. Ethical Fitness “ is a vehicle for reflective dialogue to be absorbed quietly without the pressure of a looming ethical dilemma– so that, when the moment for the action arrives, the thinking has already been done, the impulses internalized and the intuitions prepared to lead to resolutions that make the world a better place .” R. Kidder
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5. Moral: having to do with right and wrong conduct Ethical: pertaining to the study of standards of right and wrong behaviour Value: that which has intrinsic worth; a principle, standard, or quality that is worthwhile Definitions: According to Rushworth Kidder
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10. ``It doesn't bode well for the future that so many kids are entering the workforce to become the next generation of corporate executives and cops, politicians and parents, journalists, teachers and coaches, with the dispositions and skills of liars, cheaters and thieves.” Josephson
11. How accurate are the students' responses? 27% of those surveyed said that they lied on at least one of the questions. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYvMinAiKtPk&refer=us
14. “ Ethics is not an inoculation. It’s a process. I’ve never met anyone who has good judgment simply because they once had good judgment. They have it because they keep exercising it. That’s what ethics is all about: practice, exercise, and doing right at every turn.” Rushworth Kidder, How Good People Make Tough Choices How is this quotation relevant to your context?
15. Testing for Right-versus-Wrong The legal test The professional-standards test The gut-feeling test The front-page test The role-model test
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23. Test: Right vs Wrong Decision Legal Code of Ethics Gut Feeling Newspaper Role Model Analyze: Right vs Right Dilemma Truth vs Loyalty Self vs Community Short Term vs Long Term Justice vs Mercy Resolve: The Higher Right Ends Based Rule Based Care Based Fails 2 Tests Stop Don’t do it . Doesn’t fit a paradigm Stop Not at dilemma Fails a caution test Resolve one way Trilemma Third Way Out Resolve the other way
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