OGL 481 Pro-Seminar I:

PCA-Ethical Communities Worksheet

Worksheet Objectives:
1. Describe the four ethical communities
2. Apply the ethical communities to your personal case situation

Complete the following making sure to support your ideas and cite from the textbook and other
course materials per APA guidelines. After the peer review, you have a chance to update this and
format for your Electronic Portfolio due in Module 6.

1) Briefly restate your situation from Module 1 and your role.

The organization hired two deaf individuals who were to be trained and work with

powered equipment. The department they were assigned to was not set up well with

accessibility options to accommodate their needs. Initially, they were meant to be assigned to

a department with more accessibility; however, a human resource mistake sent them into the

warehousing department.

2) Describe how the ethics of the organization influenced the situation.

The ethics of the organization was a significant factor in the situation. A

company with questionable ethics would not have taken the time needed to invest in the

team members and, in turn, look for opportunities to accommodate. The easy unethical

escape route would be to not offer a position to the team members who were deaf. This

would have eliminated the excess cost of the translators and the time for the additional

training. The organization took the ethical stance that people with disabilities still

deserve a chance for gainful employment.

The organization has a motto for their team “we invest in our team by giving

them opportunities to go professionally, take care of themselves, each other, and their

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 families.” The organization continues its human rights statement by stating how we

embrace diversity and strive to give everyone access to the same opportunities. Bingos

(fictional name) proved that they stood by their motto and stance on human rights by not

taking the easy way out.

3) Recommend how you would apply one of the ethical communities for an alternative
course of action regarding your case.

Regarding the ethical communities, I would use them for an alternative course of

action, and I would use caring and love. I feel that we were utilizing this community to

some extent already, but we could have invested more heavily in the framework.

“Caring- one person’s compassion and concern for another—is both the primary purpose

and the ethical glue that holds the family together (Bolman, 2017, p. 397).” We are trying

to build an organizational culture where team members are viewed as family.

Incorporating love in an organization sounds odd, but the mentality can create

results that will flow through a team and end in positive outcomes. When

accommodating the deaf team members and bringing them onto the team, the ethical

community would allow increased caring that begins with knowing, listening,

understanding, and accepting (Bolman, 2017). I believe we did try our best in order to

deliver that experience in the onboarding process.

4) Reflect on what you would do or not do differently given what you have learned
about ethics.
The Bingo’s situation had some mishandlings, HR placing the team in the wrong

department, failure to act on accommodations, and difficulty including the team members

into the culture. I feel we did a lot of things right. We took the extra time, cost, and

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 concern to make sure we did what was in our power to provide a safe and inclusive work

environment.

We could have more heavily invested in the caring community of ethics with a

better understanding. I also feel some importance has to be placed on authorship and

excellence. If we were more effective with making sure that the team members had what

they needed for their environment, they would be able to build on an ethical stance built

on authorship and excellence in their work.

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 Work Cited

Bolman, D. G. L. T. B. E. (2017). by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal Reframing

Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Paperback 6th edition– July 24, 2017

(6th ed.). Generic.