1.To Influence or Not to Influence?
Should Ms. Williams use her knowledge of social influence to encourage teachers to volunteer for the after-school remedial program? What are the specific ethical considerations related to this decision?
Yes, Ms.William should use her knowledge of social influence to encourage teachers to volunteer for the after-school remedial program since the remedial programs allow students to not feel bad from falling behind their peers and she has a good experience with remedial programs. I think she should do it as well since this will allow students to not have
to be help back. The specific eithical considerations related to this decision are trustworthiness, respect, fairness, caring and good citizenship. Those all need to be taken into consideration when she is trying to influence and encourage teachers to volunteer their
time for the after school remedial program. She also has to take into account that the teachers may also have kids and that would be hard for them to stay after school and teach longer.
2.What are the specific ethical considerations relevant to the decision to implement or not implement this strategy? What would you recommend and why?
The specific ethical considerations relevant to the decision to implement or not to implement is when she “
would meet with teachers individually to describe the benefits of the program. Then, she would make a very large request (e.g.,
Will you please volunteer to teach in this program without compensation for 4hrs/week for the next 9 months?
). When teachers say, “no”, she would then retreat graciously to the desired request (e.g.,
Okay, I
