Accоrding tо Rоlаndo Avilа in the reаding "World War I and Women" assigned this week, "women’s valuable service in World War I set a precedent for women’s military service in future wars. Without a doubt, the crisis of World War I created opportunities for women to support the war effort and challenged notions about women’s capabilities." Take a stance. Do you agree with Avila? Do you disagree with Avila? At least three clear and distinct examples from the course materials needed to support your argument.
BETH 300, Ethicаl Principles in Business: Ethics Essаy Assignment Befоre yоu begin, pleаse nоte: you should not navigate away from the exam page, as this will trigger a manual review by Honorlock and will count as an Academic Integrity violation. In addition, you risk losing your work and you will not be given another attempt to complete the assessment. You are asked to write an ethics case analysis on the assigned case below. Your paper should present your position on the ethical issue(s) in the case. The goal of the paper is to convince others that your position or decision is the most ethical and is practically/managerially feasible. Start with a statement of the ethical issue(s) in the case and briefly identify several possible responses that, as the protagonist of the case, you could undertake to address the ethical issue. Use the remainder of the paper to present your argument explaining why your solution is more ethically defensible than other possible courses of action. The focus of the paper should be on explaining WHY your decision is the right ethical choice (your argument). Due to time limitations, I do not recommend spending the paper laying out each stakeholder’s interests, rights, duties, and virtues. Instead, use those elements to construct your argument. If you wish and you have time without sacrificing the quality of your paper, you may include a Four Avenues “matrix” as an appendix at the end of your written essay. If you wish to include a four avenues matrix, please format it with the avenues organized by columns and the stakeholders organized by rows, e.g.: Interests Rights Duties Virtues Stakeholder 1 Stakeholder 2, etc. An excellent paper: Clearly identifies and justifies the most important ethical question(s) facing the decision maker(s). Develops a thorough list of stakeholders. Clearly identifies the most important potential tensions among the key rights, duties, interests, or virtues that may not be resolved by any single course of action. Lists at least three possible options and presents a creative and viable course of action for the decision-maker. Thoughtfully and thoroughly explains how the chosen solution is both ethically and practically/managerially feasible. Provides a convincing rationale for the recommended course of action and rationale incorporates the key insights of the analysis of the case. Demonstrates awareness of a potential objection(s) to your argument and the response given is clear and compelling. Develops a realistic and compelling action plan that includes the most relevant and powerful enablers and levers for the case. Provides well-structured, clear, and compelling arguments. Is skillfully crafted, shows attention to detail, and uses professional and formal language. CAT-Scan with 6Ds Below you will find a copy of the CAT-Scan with the 6Ds. Please use this as a reference only -- do not fill it out as part of your case analysis. It is given to you only as an aide as you craft your essay on the case below. Case Analysis Steps (6 D’s sequence) Interests Rights Duties Virtues Describe Identify the facts, choice distorters and biases, blind spots and/or material assumptions that need to be made, relevant categories of ethical dilemmas, and four avenues considerations. How did the situation come about? Relevant facts? Choice distorters and biases? Blind spots and material assumptions – what don’t we know and what do we have to assume? From the GVV reading, “Ways of Thinking About Our Values,” does the case fit into any of the four most common categories/patterns of ethical dilemmas? Facts Assumptions and blind spots Biases or choice distorters Pattern(s) of dilemma, i.e., Truth vs. Loyalty; Individual vs. Community; Short-term vs. Long-term; Justice vs. Mercy? What are the key presenting issues? Personal level: Organizational level: Societal level: Who are the key individuals and groups affected by the situation (i.e., the stakeholders, both visible and hidden)? Who is the key decision maker? Identify interests. Are there interests involved? If yes, identify further. Identify rights. Are there rights involved? If yes, whose are they? Identify duties. Are there duties involved? If yes, identify further. Identify virtues. Are there precedents? If yes, what are they? Discern Identify the ethical issues. Select the issue to debate. What are the three most significant of the “presenting issues”—the one that might lie underneath it all? Describe which issue is the most important. Personal level: Organizational level: Societal level: Are there conflicting interests with respect to this issue, and how basic are they? Can you rate them in order of importance? Are there rights in conflict with interests or with other rights? Are some weightier that others? Does duty come into the picture—and are there tensions with rights or interests? Can I prioritize these claims? Is character an issue in this case—are here habits that bring us to this point or that will be reinforced later? Display Based on the facts and ethical issues, identify options you can consider. What are the principal realistic options available to the decision maker(s) in this case, including possible branching among suboptions—leading to an array of action sequences or plans? Decide Choose one of the options and design a plan of action to implement it. What, finally, is my considered judgment on the best option to take from those listed above? The Moral Point of View is here joined to the Administrative or Managerial Point of View. Defend Justify your choice from the perspective of each avenue. Which of the avenues predominates in my choice of options, and can I give good reasons for preferring the ethical priorities I have adopted in this case -- reasons that are consistent with other such cases? Define Construct a detailed, GVV-based Action Plan and Script. Referring to the GVV materials on tools, levers, reasons & rationalizations, construct a detailed action plan, including a decision tree (if necessary) for your chosen option, addressing the following questions: 1. What are the main arguments you are trying to counter? That is, what are the reasons and rationalizations you need to address? Can you recognize and unpack any relevant false dichotomies to respond to these rationalizations? 2. What is at stake for the key parties, including those who disagree with you? 3. What levers can you use to influence those who disagree with you? 4. What is your most powerful and persuasive response to the reasons and rationalizations you need to address? To whom should the argument be made? When, in what order, and in what context? Case: The Forgotten Client1 Luis, the client portfolio manager and Isabel’s boss, flashed a sardonic grin, shook his head and directed her out of his office with explicit instructions to revise the numbers. Isabel was apprehensive; all the performance figures had come from the electronic systems scrupulously maintained by the company’s analysis team and were in line with the portfolio’s underlying investments. Additionally, she quickly realized that the issue lay not with the figures and charts, but with the investment decisions that had yielded such poor results. And that was one tale that her portfolio manager did not want told. Instead, Isabel was urged to find a “better” blended benchmark to replace the original, and to do so in time for the client meeting that was taking place that very afternoon. The original benchmark was based on the appropriate market indices that best reflected the portfolio’s asset mix, but which had unfortunately outperformed the portfolio since inception. Consequently, Isabel was not so subtly advised that accuracy was to be superseded by a desire to conceal this knowledge from the client. The principle (owner) of this portfolio was one of the bank’s smallest clients in terms of net worth and had remained on their platform only as a personal favor to a senior banker. He had decided only two years ago to invest the bulk of his wealth with the bank. An 85-year-old man who admitted that luck had been on his side, the client had acquired a small fortune by creating a franchise of clothing shops, specializing in low-priced fashion-forward clothing throughout Mexico. He was happily enjoying retirement, hoping to grow and eventually disperse his self-made wealth to his nine grandchildren. It was not surprising that the portfolio’s performance woes had gone unnoticed by both the portfolio manager and client. After all, the portfolio manager was new and there had been enormous turnover on Isabel’s team in the past eighteen months and a subsequent focus on their largest accounts. Everyone had been operating in fire drill mode, trying to keep the existing base of clients and acquire new ones to replace the few clients that had left during the turmoil. A small portfolio not at risk for defection would have been at the bottom of the group’s priority list. For the client’s part, his lack of financial expertise was the reason he turned to this firm in the first place; he gathered his information almost exclusively from their scheduled meetings. Isabel uneasily considered the directive to find a benchmark that would obscure the portfolio’s underperformance. As a new team member, she worried that she didn’t have the credibility or the relationships to raise the issue without personal cost, having only joined the team two months prior. Sent back to her desk and with the client meeting looming, Isabel pondered to herself: “What’s the right thing to do and how do I do it?” 1. This case contains minor adaptations of a Giving Voice to Values case written by Gentile et al. This version of the case has modified some names and details for teaching purposes.
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