Ethics Awareness Invertory

Ethics Awareness Inventory

An ethical awareness inventory will highlight the way one perceives ethics based on four categories; character, obligation, results and equity. Awareness and understanding of how one values these categories is a continuous process, and the particular category that guides you in your personal life may or may not be the guiding category in your professional life.

I received personal insight that the categories that you align with can and most times do shift, the first time I took the assessment "Character" was the ethical profile that I most closely aligned with, and the second time I took the assessment "Results" was the ethical profile that I most closely aligned with. In both takings "Equity" was the profile that I was least closely aligned with.

That Equity was the profile that I was least closely aligned with caused me to pause and consider ~ Why am I least likely aligned with equity? Then it did not surprise me so much because I personal feel that today's environment is trying to make everyone equal and taking away our personal accountability, meaning today's environment want me to not only respect everyone individually but to agree with them. I'm willing to respect everyone's individuality but I don't appreciate the unwillingness to accept that I do not need to agree with that individuality to accept it.

Character and Results are intertwined categories for me, so that they rotate was not such a surprise for me. If one has solid critical reasoning skills their character and the results they achieve should be ethically solid, maybe not totally equal for all involved but presenting the best outcome possible with the facts at hand.

My educational experience continue to highlight that results and character are the categories that I personally value most and that I need to remember to take steps to ensure that I give others the opportunity and not always take the lead to get to the results. I am self-aware to know that if things are not moving along my willingness to jump in and get things done can overwhelm others and that I need to ensure that there is equal opportunity for everyone to participate. If everyone has the opportunity to participate but they choose not to participate the decision is theirs to make.

References:

(2011). Ethics awareness inventory. (6 ed.). The Williams Institute for Ethics and Management 2011. Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/Vendors/TWI/EAI/

(Ethics awareness inventory, 2011)

Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2006). Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your professional and personal life (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall