Rachel Nilles

OGL 345

Moral Minefield 5
1. Copy and paste (or screenshot) your Level overview and scores. You can find this information
again in your Overview & Profile.

LEVEL 5: LAUNCH
Question Actions Result Points

1. Targets View question View outcome ✘ 3

2. Targets Bonus View question View outcome ✔ 3

3. The Union View question View outcome ✔ 7

4. The Union Bonus View question View outcome ✔ 3

5. Bots View question View outcome ✔ 7

6. Bots Bonus View question View outcome ✘ 1

7. The Whistleblower View question View outcome ✔ 7

8. The Whistleblower Bonus View question View outcome ✔ 3

9. The Whistleblower View question View outcome ✔ 7

10. The Whistleblower Bonus View question View outcome ✔ 3

Rachel Nilles
OGL 345

2. Reflect on the scenarios presented in the game. Was there anything you found particularly
difficult? Anything that surprised you?

The very first scenario stumped me, the “Targets” scenario. Where the leader needs to be
held accountable for the actions of the team. Yes, the team was putting in false info to meet quotas,
but you must look at why they are doing this. They were being pressured by superiors. I thought
both would be held responsible for the actions done, but it makes sense that the leader is the one
that should be held responsible for this big mistake. It is tricky, but when leadership is not doing
their job and helping their team, but instead pressuring them into doing things like this, it should
be an obvious answer.

3. Explain one of the decision-making scenarios you were given in this level and analyze it in terms
of one of this week’s theories.

In the “Bots” scenario it reminded me of Friedman’s description of shareholders. He

believes, “shareholders want to make as much money as possible out of the company that they
own – that, after all, is usually why people buy shares in a company,” (p. 368). They wanted 200
students to speak positively over something they have never taken in their life. They wanted to
show people how positive their product is and how it changed many people’s lives, although all
these people never took it. Doing so, would make Ulban a lot of money, which is what they want,
but in an unethical way.
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OGL 345

4. How could you use the concepts discussed in this simulation in your job today? Relate these
concepts to the other course materials and to your own experiences.

At Starbucks, we have multiple shift supervisors and sometimes one supervisor will tell a
barista to do a task and they may tell them how to do the task quickly and out of standard. For
example, we have tasks we need to do once a month, like completely emptying the big ice machine
out and washing it. This is a huge task and takes hours. They tell the barista to not empty it out
fully, but to wipe down the main parts of the machine and make it “look presentable.” The barista
does not know any better, until another supervisor comes and asks them to do this task a month
later, and we find out what the supervisor told them to do with the ice machine. This is poor
leadership and does not look good for the company. We want to uphold our standards and teach
our baristas the best way of cleaning, not skip cleanliness. This reminds me of the section in the
textbook, “separation of ownership and control in large companies: one set of people,” (p. 364).
We need to keep the standards the same across the board, so employees do not get confused or
even frustrated with the different statements.

Works Cited

Fryer, M. (2015). Ethics theory & business practice. SAGE.