4.4 Project Assignment: Personal Ethics Statement (Workplace Ethics)

Getting Started

During the course of your graduate program of study, you will be

introduced to many business disciplines requiring many types of

insight and decisions. Listening to the words of many different people who speak the different languages of their discipline and

their culture will be necessary. As we listen and make business

decisions, our moral and ethical foundation must be preeminent.  Developing a personal ethical statement is the first step in making

ethical decisions. 

Throughout this course, you will be working on the various

components of your personal ethics framework. These pre-writing

assessments and assignments will help you measure performance

with respect to important ethical behaviors, skills, or concepts

discussed throughout the course. This assignment will help you

identify behaviors and qualities that contribute to ethical work

environments and will help you to identify the related behaviors

you want as part of your ethical framework.

These pre-writing assignments are essential to your final paper

due in Workshop Six.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be

able to:

● Evaluate one’s personal ethical standards and create a personal/professional framework to guide decision making

compatible with a Christian world-view.

Resources

● Textbook: ​Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership

● Article:​ ​Workplace Helping: Interactive Effects of Personality and Momentary Positive Affect

Background Information

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of

creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria

for earning your grade.

2. Read Chapter 5 in ​Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership.

3. In your textbook, locate and complete Self-Assessment 5.2:

The Self Report Altruism Scale (completed assessment will

not be submitted as part of the assignment).

4. With clear, insightful critical thinking, reflect and answer the

following questions:

a. What does your score on the Self-Assessment 5.2

reveal about your willingness to help others?

b. Reflect on the article ​Workplace Helping: Interactive Effects of Personality and Momentary Positive Affect​. Have you experienced an emotional change after helping

someone? If you had a positive emotional affect did this

encourage you to act this way again?

c. How can you engage in more altruistic behavior?

d. Explain whether you believe your identified changes in

behavior impact the work ethics of others.

5. Your reflection should be between 450 and 700 words and

include at least two scholarly sources. Be sure to use correct

spelling, grammar, and APA format in the paper. For questions

on APA style, go to ​OCLS APA Writing Styles Guide​. a. Note: cover pages, academic sources, reference pages,

etc. do not count towards the word length requirement

in your paper. Remember the work you do here will

benefit you in completing your final paper in Workshop

Six.

6. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for

yourself (name your assignment

“LastName_Ethics_WorkEthics") and submit a copy through

the Assignment Submission Page by the end of the

workshop.

View the associated rubric

Access the Assignment submission page