ETH 301 MODULE 2 SLP LATEST-TRIDENT
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ETH 301 Module 2 SLP Latest-Trident
Module 2 – SLP
ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN DIFFICULT
SITUATIONS
After reading your background readings, please
review the following scenario and address the questions at the end.
Jerry Stevens heads up an excavation crew for
the municipal utilities district in a city in Nebraska. A sewer line needs to
be replaced and it has been excavated with a back-hoe. The trench is 7 feet
deep. The municipality’s safety rules indicate that employees should not go
into the trench without a trench box. This rule is to prevent employees from
being buried if the trench walls collapse. People die every year from trench
cave-ins.
The trench box won’t arrive on site for
another 6 hours and the city promised residents that the sewer would be fixed
by the end of the day, which now seems impossible. The City Administrator
called Jerry on his cell phone and indicated that it was imperative that the
sewer be fixed as soon as conceivably possible because a City Council member is
served by that sewer line and will raise a fuss if it’s not fixed by the
promised time.
One of the more experienced workers states,
“It’s only going to take 30 minutes to dig under the pipe and loosen the
fittings. We don’t need the trench box. We used to do this all the time before
we were required to use one of those darn things.”
Jerry knows he’s right. He used to do it
himself before the rule was put in place. Also, the soil is clearly a cohesive
soil and it’s highly unlikely that it will collapse. And although there is an
organizational policy to use a trench box for trenches deeper than 5 feet, the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have
Jurisdiction over municipalities in Nebraska
because municipalities are political subdivisions of the State. The only entity
regulating safety policies is the City’s Safety Director and he took the day
off.
In this scenario, to what extent do you think
allowing the crew into the trench without a trench box would be pushing (or
exceeding) the limit?
- Discuss any ethical grey areas in this scenario?
- What in your mind is the right thing to do?
- What is the value of having an ethics program (and
related programs like safety programs) and what are the responsibilities
of front line leaders/supervisors and the workers when they face dilemmas
such as the one described?
Please take some time to review the materials
and take a position on the issue. Write a 2- to 3-page assessment of the
authors’ claims, and your assessment of what might be done in a place of
business to prevent the “moral amnesia” phenomenon from taking a foothold in a
place of business.
- Your paper should be double-spaced and in 12-point type
size.
- Your paper should have a separate cover page and a
separate reference page. Make sure you cite your sources.
- Use APA style, and proofread your paper.
- Upload your paper by the end of the module.
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