Assignment 1

A- Defining Ethics and Morals

1-What is ethics: Ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in
workplaces.

2-What are morals? Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

3- How you think you would respond to these situations. Write down the things you consider
when making your decision.

Senario: Money is tight, and your spouse’s birthday is coming up. One of your clients offered
you free tickets to a major gala coming up, complete with a hotel room. The problem is that your
company prohibits accepting these kinds of gifts.

My response: My company prohibits accepting gifts of the kind that my client is offering, in this
case I would tell my client that I’m grateful for his or her gift, but I can’t accept it and I hope my
client would appreciate my ethical decision. In this way I would be rejecting my clients offer
respectfully and abiding by my company’s policies.

B- Identifying Stages

Scenario: Jacob was out gambling and lost a significant amount of money. He considers taking it
from the savings account he shares with his wife. He decides not to because he knows she will be
very angry with him.
4- What is his Level of Development?

Jacob took the decision based on how his wife would feel and in this case she would be angry, if
we consider that Jacob fears that, then it is level 1 preconventional morality.

5-What his Decision at Level Three would be?

Case of Post conventional morality: Jacob is convinced that taking the money from the saving
account is wrong, it would be like stealing someone’s money and this person is his wife, Jacob
tells his wife the truth and tries to stop gambling.