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Alternatives: since they have clear evidence, goodearl and ibarra should blow the whistle. evaluate each of the following ways in which they could blow the whistle
- Blow the whistle to Hughes’ Board of Directors. In this way they can stop the test skipping but will also be able to keep the whole affair “in house.”
- Blow the whistle to the local news media. In this way they will shame Hughes into compliance with the testing requirements.
- Take the evidence to the U.S. Department of Defense, since they are the client and are being negatively impacted by Hughes’ illegal actions.
- Some other mode of blowing the whistle….
Solution evaluation matrix
Alternatives/Tests |
Reversibility/Rights Test |
Harm/Benefits Test |
Virtue/Value Test (Also Publicity) |
Global Feasibility Test (Implementation Obstacles) |
Alternative One (Worst Alternative) |
Evaluate Alt 1 using reversibility/rights test |
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Alternative Two (Best among those given) |
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Weigh harms against benefits for alt 2 |
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Alternative Three |
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What values/disvalues are realized in alt 3? |
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Your Solution |
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What obstacles could hinder implementation of solution? |
Ethics tests: set up and pitfalls
Iii. solution evaluation tests
- REVERSIBILITY: Would I think this is a good choice if I were among those affected by it?
- PUBILICITY: Would I want to be publicly associated with this action through, say, its publication in the newspaper?
- HARM/BENEFICENCE: Does this action do less harm than any of the available alternatives?
- FEASIBILITY: Can this solution be implemented given time, technical, economic, legal, and political constraints?
Harm test set-up
- Identify the agent (=the person who will perform the action).
Describe the action (=what the agent is about to do).
- Identify the stakeholders (individuals who have a vital interest at risk) and their stakes.
- Identify, sort out, and weight the expected results or consequences.
Harm test pitfalls
- Paralysis of Action--considering too many consequences.
- Incomplete analysis--considering too few results.
- Failure to weigh harms against benefits.
- Failure to compare different alternatives.
- Justice failures--ignoring the fairness of the distribution of harms and benefits.
Reversibility test set-up
- Identify the agent
- Describe the action
- Identify the stakeholders and their stakes
- Use the stakeholder analysis to select the relations to be reversed.
- Reverse roles between the agent (you) and each stakeholder: put them in your place (as the agent) and yourself in their place (as the target of the action
- If you were in their place, would you still find the action acceptable?
Reversibility pitfalls
- Leaving out a key stakeholder relation.
- Failing to recognize and address conflicts between stakeholders and their conflicting stakes.
- Confusing treating others with respect with capitulating to their demands (Reversing with Hitler).
- Failing to reach closure, i.e., an overall global reversal assessment that takes into account all the stakeholders the agent has reversed with.
Public identification set-up
- Set up the analysis by identifying the agent, describing the action under consideration, and listing the key values or virtues at play in the situation.
- Associate the action with the agent.
- Identify what the action says about the agent as a person. Does it reveal him or her as someone associated with a virtue/value or a vice?
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OpenStax, Professional ethics in engineering. OpenStax CNX. Aug 29, 2013 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10399/1.4
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