Assignment:

Getting Started

During 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 have worked on the various components of your personal ethics framework. Your reflections were designed to help you measure performance with respect to important ethical behaviors, skills, or concepts discussed throughout the course.

The ability to make ethical decisions in the increasing multi-cultural work environment requires an important skill for the global manager. 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.

The most potent defense against erosion of ethics is a robust, pre-determined ethical framework for personal decisions. This assignment will lead you through the process of establishing your personal framework for ethical decisions.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

1. Evaluate one`s personal ethical standards and create a personal/professional framework to guide decision making compatible with a Christian world-view.
2. Select the appropriate and ethical response to a crisis.
3. Synthesize the inter-relatedness of biblical principles and the ethical and legal fabrics in American society.

Resources

Textbook: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Create a personal code of ethics and framework that will guide you in professional and personal decision making.

1. Your Ethics Statement/framework should discuss the following

• Reflect on the values that are most important to you. Examine your responses from the devotions. What principles do you believe should guide your actions and decisions?
• Consider the consequences and effects of your actions on others and the broader community. How do your actions align with your values?
• Reflect on the secular ethical theories we discussed in class. How do these theories align with your values? What can you extract from these theories to guide you in ethical decision making?
• Based on your values and the insights gained from ethical theories, articulate your personal ethical statement.
• Describe the principles and behaviors that you aspire to uphold in both personal and professional contexts.
• How can utilizing your personal ethical statement when faced with an ethical decisions contribute to positive change in society.

2. Your paper should be between 1,200 and 1,500 words.

3. Be sure to use correct spelling, grammar, and and include at least five scholarly sources.