Form random teams $($yes$,$ a chance to work with other classmates!$)$

For each scenario, there will be a proponent and an opponent. The proponent team will make their choice and provide a rationale to the opponent team who will try to poke at their rationale with another counter$-$decision. Make two sets of groups for each scenario.

In each dilemma below, what would you do$?$ Place a checkmark by your response; then provide the rationale for your answer $[$Adapted from the text: The Art of Leadership by George Manning & Kent Curtis$]$ Manning, G$.,$ & Curtis, K$.(2004).$ The art of leadership. The TQM Magazine, $16(3),225-226.$

$1.$ The citizen. You are driving your car when you come upon the scene of an accident. One person will die without immediate medical care. You take the victim and speed to the hospital. The extra speed causes another accident, in which another person dies.

How should you be judged?

Was your act right because your motive was good, or was your act wrong because its consequences were bad?

Choose one:

Right; motive

Wrong; consequences

Alternative Response was good and bad

My choice is:

Rational for your choices:

$2.$ The salesperson. You learn that your company is selling faulty equipment that could be dangerous. Your spouse needs medical treatment that costs a large percentage of your income. You have reason to believe that if you confront your employer, you will lose your job.

What would you do$?$

Choose one:

Confront

Avoid

Alternative Response employer confrontation

My choice is:

Rational for your choices:

$3.$ The supervisor. Your company is reducing the workforce, and you must dismiss one of your engineers. You have narrowed the choices to T$.$ J$.,$ an older employee who has been coasting for years, but who is capable of outstanding performance, and Morgan, a new employee who tries his best, but who almost certainly will never perform at the same level as T$.$ J$.$ Who would you let go$?$

Choose one:

T$.$J

Morgan

Alternative Response

My choice is:

Rational for your choices: