Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Friday, January 1, 2010
I recently saw a commercial that showed a basketball player in the championship game give up possession of the ball by calling attention to the fact that he was the last to touch the ball before it went out of bounds. The ref didn't see it and was giving possession to the player's team, but this boy told his coach that he touched the ball last. Much to the frustration of the rest of his teammates, he insisted until the the call was reversed. The coach backed him up.
Posted by The Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Monday, December 14, 2009
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Real World Ethics
On the Responsibility Project blog, Kathy McManus introduces an intriguing question on whether the wave of air-brushed, photoshopped, lip-synched, perfect performances of Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Yo Yo Ma are a new form of responsibility.
The editor of the magazine that featured a photoshopped Kelly Clarkson on the cover insisted that a magazine cover needs to be perfect and reflect "the essence of you at your best." The producer of Jennifer Hudson's lip-synched performance of th... Continue reading...
If society wants to be civilized and to provide a stable structure for children to grow and thrive, it must not accept Woods-style misconduc... Continue reading...
Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Can you have strong values and still act unethically? Of course.
Declaring your values is not enough. Your actions must support your values. Acting in accordance to your values requires continual attention and thoughtfulness because each situation is unique.
Being able to think critically about a situation is imperative to living in accordance with your values. Critical thinkers:
gather and assess information and then interpret that information to understand a situation
Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Real World Ethics
This comes from POPS, a blog about the public relations industry by Jeremy Pepper.
Jeremy talks about the sometimes uncomfortable position that firms will put their interns in -- asking them to do things that don't seem quite right. If you are the intern, what do you do? You want (and need!) the job that the internship could lead to. You are just a newbie in a company and industry that has been around forever. You're not sure if what they are asking you to do really is that big a deal - b... Continue reading...
Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Saturday, October 17, 2009
Why do people cheat?
You might guess that it is a consideration of the potential gain and the potential risk (of being caught).
In this video, Dan Ariely, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics, speaks about his surprising findings on why people cheat- who does it and when.
His findings would suggest that rather than personal gain, and rather than level of risk, a large factor on whether people cheat are the norms of the group. In part of the video above, he relates an exper... Continue reading...
Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Monday, October 5, 2009
Chris McDonald, Professor of philosophy and ethics and blogger at The Business Ethics Blog, says that his blog deals with business ethics and includes "questions of good and bad outcomes, right and wrong behaviours, as well as questions of character."
He notes that it is sometimes hard to have conversations with people about ethics. He attributes the difficulty to three things:
Discomfort or unfamiliarity with how to talk about ethics.
Misunderstanding about what ethics encompasses.
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