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Team Work Scenarios Essay

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Team Work Scenarios

Learning Team

Each team should respond in paragraph form to the questions that follow the scenarios presented below. Any disagreements or complications that occur within the team regarding the correct response should be noted in the Learning Team Reflection Worksheet for the week.

SCENARIOS

Duty-based (Deontological):

1.
Donna was wrong for setting rules for the team without any input from Michael. He is not going to follow the rules if there was no buy-in on the rules. Donna and Michael should renegotiate the rules together and come up with a set of rules with which both are comfortable. If that doesn?t work, try to get another team member (or a member from another team) to mediate between the two. …show more content…

Goal-based (Teleological):

1.
Corin?s attitude is impacting the entire team. When it comes to team assignments, a team needs knowledge from everyone to finish the project. When he blows them off, the other team members have to pick up the slack and it makes it harder from them to complete the task.

2.
Yes, Darcie is acting on a goal-based ethic by giving up part of herself for the good of the whole team. She is adhering to the goal-based ethical theory of Utilitarianism or the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Rights-Based:

1.
Jerry and Samantha?s arguments fit into the rights-based ethical philosophy because the movie was censored by a local group, who do not make up the majority of the people in the community. Since rights-based ethics relies upon the majority of people in a community to agree on a specific behavior as acceptable or unacceptable, they are justified in challenging the local group?s actions.

2.
Buck has experienced rights-based ethics because he heard what the majority of people in the community feel about car noise levels. Both sides of an issue are debated at a town meeting and a consensus is reached.

Human-Nature:

1.
Karen falls into the human-nature section of ethics due to her egoist actions. She is only thinking of her grade and not that her actions might have repercussions. When Karen?s teacher discovers her plagiarism, she will

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