Assignment
In this paper (not a memo), you will be analyzing one potential ethical issue related to your project in this class. Each person in your team is responsible for writing about one of the below scenarios (the instructor will assign these based on your project if not obvious).
Your paper must be 3-5 pages and have the following sections:
1. Project and Scenario Introduction
1.1. Brief Introdution of your project
1.2. Identify your ethical scenario and how it relates to your project that answers the following:
- Who are the stakeholders?
- What are the relevant facts to the scenario?
- What do you feel is missing from the information provided that you would like to know?
2. Ethical Codes and Theories
2.1. Identify relevant professional codes of ethics related to your scenario
2.2. Identify relevant ethical theories related to your scenario
3. Alternatives Generation and Comparison
3.1. Identify at least three alternative actions to your scenario
- What are the consequences to each action?
3.2. Discuss how this scenario and your alternative actions might effect the stakeholders
3.3. Evaluate those alternative actions by applying the professional codes of ethics and ethical theories
- Note: each could have competing reasoning based on the code/theory selected
4. Action Selection and Justification.
4.1. After carefully evaluating your options, select an action
4.2. Justify your decision thoroughly.