Ethics Awareness Inventory

Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis

Awareness and the ability to analyze ones personal and professional ethics is an essential aspect for adults in today’s highly competitive and specialized business world. This paper will interpret the results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory, explain how the educational experience has influenced my own ethical thinking, describe how I apply my own ethics in thinking and decision-making, and how I attempt to cope with people and situations that offer differing interpretations of ethical behavior.

The Ethics Awareness Inventory provides unique insight into my own ethical perspective. This tool enables me to understand my perceived ethical perspective, compared to the results of the inventory analysis. The following graphic represents the results of my profile upon conclusion of the inventory questionnaire.

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MOST 4 8 9 3

LEAST 7 2 6 9

COMBINED SCORE -3 6 3 -6

My Ethics Awareness Inventory indicates my ethics perspective is most likely based on obligation which means I believe that human beings have intrinsic value - we have a right to individual respect. Therefore, you cannot support social traditions and policies aimed at the best interests of society as a whole if any individual is denied the opportunities to which she/he is entitled as a human being (University of Phoenix, 2007). I often cannot support business decisions that are presented as being in the best interests of my company, especially if such policies deny individual employees the opportunities to which they are entitled as people. My approach to ethics is that I believe as long as people are acting within the limits of the law and humanity, they should be allowed to make their own decisions.

There are very few assignments in college which truly enlighten students. This ethics awareness inventory was a wonderful exercise. I feel that people