Question

Create a Personal Social Responsibility plan based upon your Core Values and Personal Ethics. The PSR should contain-Your value chain, your personal life along with your business life.

How will you balance the Strategic, Altruistic and Ethical responses in your life, especially when applying for a job or promotion, dealing with work when what they want is not right or just finding the balance between personal and professional?

How will you use Dobrin or Kohlberg or the Sleep Test (or any of the other models) to make sure you have the proper balance?

Answer 1

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. Also, I have not answered some parts of the question where you have to talk about you personal values and ethics. I have marked those places with “-----” You may fill in your personal views in those spaces. Also, all definition below come from cited sources. If you have further doubts, please comment below.

(Answer) Personal Social Responsibility Plan:

Core Values – ------------

Personal Ethics - -------------

Strategic Response – “The strategic response plan (SRP) is a management tool for response and supports decision-making by the humanitarian country team. It has two interlinked components: a country or context strategy, with strategic objectives and indicators; and cluster plans, with objectives, activities and accompanying projects.” (Source: Humanitarian Project)

Altruistic Response – “Behavior is normally described as altruistic when it is motivated by a desire to benefit someone other than oneself for that person’s sake.” (Source: Stanford Philosophy Encyclopaedia)

Ethical Response – “Application of fundamental ethical beliefs including autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, justice and fidelity. These align with the Rules/Principle paradigm” (Nash, 1991).

Strategic, Altruistic and Ethical responses combined is when one does the right thing for a right cause to achieve a fair goal. The combination of these three, form an ideal response model for all situations.

Applying these values at the time of a job or promotion application: -----

Applying these values when faced with an ethical dilemma: -----

Dorbin – Arthur Dorbin came up with 8 questions that would help solve ethical dilemmas. They are:

1. What are the facts?
2. What can you guess about the facts you don't know?
3. What do the facts mean?
4. What does the problem look like to the eyes of the people involved?
5. What will happen if you choose one thing rather than another?
6. What do your feelings tell you?
7. What will you think of yourself if you decide one thing or another?
8. Can you explain and justify your decision to others?

Kohlberg – Kohlberg’s three stages of solving an ethical dilemma are:

Pre-conventional – Applying personal views and set of ideals to the problem.

Conventional – Analysing it in terms of the proper law

Post-conventional – Handling the problem based on social contract and principled conscience.

Sleep Test – “A person who has made the right choice can sleep soundly. A person who has not made the right choice cannot. Follow your heart when your mind is confused.” (Source: Gloria Fanning)

Applications of Dorbin, Kohlberg and Sleep Test: ---------