The Ethic Cycle and Rationalizing Unethical Behaviors

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The Ethical Cycle and Rationalizing Unethical Behavior
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Review of the ethical cycle
An ethical cycle is a five step systematic approach to solving ethical problems. In the first step is the identification of the moral problem and making a moral statement where two or more positive moral values that cannot be realized at he same time. The problem needs to be clearly stated with the actors identified and why it is a moral problem. In the second step a problem analysis is done on the ethic problem with key elements of the problem described. The stakeholders affected, the relevant moral values and other facts should also be identified in order to be able to properly analyze a problem. In the third step, a black and white strategy for generating possible options for actions should be done. Such options may include cooperation or whistle blowing. In the fourth step ethical evaluations of different options should be carried out using ethical frameworks to evaluate their moral acceptability. A reflection is necessary to understand the outcome of previous steps and to understand the outcomes of various ethical frameworks before finally arriving at a morally acceptable action (The Ethical Cycle, n.d.).
Decision made in the workplace
I once faced an ethical dilemma in my place of interning that was very had to resolve with favorable outcomes. The ethical dilemma was whether or not to I should address the issue where a few of my team members have taken the whole credit for a team project I and another member highly contributed in, yet one of the team member is my supervisor. After reviewing the various outcomes of various options for action, I decided not to report the matter and leave it as it were.

Steps of the ethical cycle in the decision making process
Moral problem statement
As an intern in a big chain of department stores mainly dealing in foodstuffs I worked with a team of five people from the marketing department in order to come up with the best marketing campaign strategies for the companies' newest product. The company was introducing a health clinic within many of the company's stores with the aim of providing customers with easy and affordable basic medical services. The health clinic also linked patients with good and trusted medical service providers and various medical centers that provided specific services and also provided medical care fast with no appointment hassles. I suggested a "speed dating" technique to be used as a campaign tool where the marketing team would approach customers and briefly explain about the product, and then give them leaflets to refer. Speed dating was supposed to be a quick and clear strategy taking less than two ...