My personal ethics lens includes my personal actions and behaviors, my core values, and responsibilities. My personal preferred lens is the results lens and the reputation lens. I sensibly listen to my intuition to determine the best for everyone and the character traits and ethic beliefs that will best suit my fellow classmates. I am sometimes content with too little and have unrealistic role expectations, relying too much on the virtues related to someone’s role, absent to the fact that others can fail regardless of their part in the project. However, I am very self-reliant and posses accountability.
My personal preferred lens is the Equality/Rationality in the Relationship lens. The Equality/Rationality Lens means that I use my reasoning skills to determine what should and needs to be done to ensure fairness for all. The strength of this lens is my ability to research all options and implement the options that I feel are fair to the situation and everyone involved. My weakness is that I can put too much thought into what is right in a situation, I tend to impose my will on others without looking to see that there might be other options relevant to the situation. I may also be tempted to exempt myself and others from the rules convinced that the rules were meant for others or that the actions I am taking really are fair for everyone.
It says that my gift is compassion and that is true because I am compassionate about the things I want and am trying to accomplish in life and I show compassion towards others and their problems. The Ethical Lens said that I define an ethical person as one with sound character traits and habits of thoughtful reflection. It also said that I believe that those who demonstrate strong leadership in their roles and who encourage others to do the same exemplify ethical behavior. I would have to agree with this assessment because I definitely expect others to display this type of ethical behavior. Though I know this is expected of people, I am however, not nieve to how people can really be.
I like to show the people I love that I love and appreciate them. Whenever friends and family do something to help me I always let them know that I’m grateful. By putting God first in my life I feel that it allows me to really have a conscious. I want to treat people the way I want to be treated. So I normally try to go over and beyond to make sure everyone around me is happy or having a good time.
Moral Accountability As a Result of Choices Are we as individuals morally accountable for our actions if we are forced to make a choice under duress or extreme conditions? People every day make choices under their own volition. While some decisions seem simple and straightforward, others are more complicated when ethics and morality are of concern. We are ultimately responsible for our actions, however, if we are coerced, intimidated or manipulated into making a decision that is contrary to our belief system, our moral responsibility is negated. What are the motivating factors that affect our behavior and ultimately persuade us to make a moral decision?
ETHICAL LENS INVENTORY Ethical lens Inventory is used as a way to identify what values are more important to us as an individual.The inventory allows us to see ethical issues clearly whenever we have ethical dilemma without clear option/choice and it also helps to learn how to resolve them better.People have different priorities and different values helps to respect each others point of views. There are four primary ethical perspectives. Two of them are to help us to determine using Rationality(critical thinking ) are: 1)Rights&Responsibility Lens:you use your rationality to how to live with universal rules. 2)Relationship Lens:Its about equality of community so that everybody gets treated fairly. The other two of the ethical lenses are using your Sensibility (Intuition) which means using your intuition and emotions for our behavior to be ethical are : 1)Results Lens:using your sensibility to decide your decisions which will make you happy and adds more happiness to your life.
The second guideline is accepting and confirms others. Everyone wants to feel needed, so we need to be accepting. Sometimes we disagree with others and don’t like certain things they do. Being honest with others is important because we expect real friends to be sources of honest feedback, even if it isn’t always pleasant to hear. For a relationship to work, the people in it must feel confirmed.
The Ethical Lens Inventory also implies that my blind spot is that I believe that motive justifies method. It says that I may unintentionally cause people upset and pain because I am so focused on my good motive, and that I tend to believe that ethnics is a set of universal rules that everyone should follow, just as I do. I believe that my strengths are that I will always perform my duties to satisfy the goal of my employer on my own and without supervision. I’m not dependent on a team or group. I feel my weaknesses would be that I may come across to others as bossy and everyone will be held
Another supporting argument of Ethical Egoism is that we always do what we most want to do. Also we do what makes us feel good. In addition, we do things for others to ultimately benefit ourselves. Lastly, it is better to look out for oneself and not interfere with others lives, which sometimes can cause robbery of other’s dignity and self respect. There also are arguments against Ethical Egoism.
Personal and societal values influence ethical decision making by making us look at what we believe is right or wrong and how it will affect us and family and friends. Is what I am doing the right thing to do? Sometimes we make a decision not to act because we don’t want to hurt someone else or their feelings. There are also times that we do not act because we feel that we do not have enough information to make an informed decision on what is important to us and our families. Ethical decisions that we make are based on our conscience, our own personal beliefs of right or wrong.