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.

Before constructing its newest site addition to the already robust facility, Switch

intended to verify that all of its buildings met the same standards, materials, and

technology. The company's overhaul required a different method. Research, requirements

collecting, development, and testing took a year. 15% of the requirements put us in a

dilemma, putting us in danger of not completing the TSCIFs promised to the clients.

TSCIFs may hold 20 to 24 server cabinets. The client needs to determine cabinet size and

server count. Climate, pressure, and electricity are regulated to standard setpoints in a

TSCIF, and certain materials and equipment are needed.

We visited with the procurement director, vendors, and sales manager. As Co-

Manager, I was responsible for communicating with the team, ensuring commitments were

met, and serving as a co-escalation point. As customer service liaison, I had to attend all

meetings to educate clients on our policies and processes. I'd go through the scope of work

with subcontractors who performed TSCIF's electrical work and provided materials to the

manager. We discussed our strategies, such as the hours and resources needed to finish

the project and the consequences of a resource and equipment deficiency. We

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 recommended delaying the project. The contractors, procurement director, and other

management teams failed to spot the critical pieces required to rectify the 15% technical

deviance. My department and other sources completed the project on schedule. However,

the budget needed adjustment due to the extra expense of using external sources to expedite

the process.

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

When Switch hired me for my second position at this business, it was following a brief

departure from the company due to my discontent with their direction. When management

realized that the organizational side of the organization was coming to me to give a

different job away from TSCIF build-outs, they indicated that the company was going in a

new direction to better their work process and department communication. The new

implementations would be implemented in response to the continuous lack of transparency

and communication. The two described features seemed excellent, so I felt I would have a

higher chance of growing my managerial skill set with the organization. During the first

six months, I noticed a reduction in lack of communication, turnover, and inefficiencies.

Some workforce members reverted to old habits not long after, and miscommunication and

political power struggle resumed. Around this time, I decided to return to Arizona.

People's values, beliefs, and pillars are fundamental to ethics. An organization's

ethical frame focuses on how its methods, processes, protocols, and vision support the

ethics it chooses to lay out. Structures serve different functions in different contexts, some

benefiting more than others depending on the circumstances. Because of the significant

shifts and uncertainties, it made sense to employ the structural frame; nevertheless, the

ethical structure was omitted in exchange for not combining other methodologies. Which

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 ultimately negatively influenced the organization, as seen by the fact that in early 2020, the

corporation laid off employees, consolidated divisions, and eliminated others. The

corporation has now undergone effective reorganization and plans to construct three new

Data Center buildings, with one facility scheduled for completion in 2023, on top of the

existing one-million-square-foot facility that is thriving.

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

It is essential to emphasize that ethics cannot make matters black and white. The murky

regions are where ethics come into play but are the most difficult to navigate. Ethics is

frequently defined as one's moral duty or obligation. In contrast, ethical communities have

the moral responsibility to engage in procedures that pursue their work's purpose while

addressing ongoing and emerging difficulties. When an institution is viewed as honest, it

is frequently associated with being competent, respected, and trustworthy after establishing

moral credibility.

Engaging with their human resources and the consumer base or communities they

serve would have been a superior alternative to the organization's selected method. Making

the decision would have been significant for the organization since it also uses human

resource, symbolic, and ethical frames to justify the substantial changes it planned to

implement. This activity may have encouraged their human resources to collaborate on

methods to improve the company. This allows the organization to get the most outstanding

feedback from people who observe what works and doesn't. Another option would have

been to solicit feedback from their clients.

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4) Reflect on what you would do or not do differently given what you have learned
about ethics.

Ethics is a fantastic paradigm because it can constantly be questioned or reviewed. As an

active member of their human resources department, I would like to promote engagement

among other people of the firm to gather their thoughts on enhancing the business rather

than selecting a small number of them to solve challenges that the greater total faces.

Knowledge is power, which holds for the corporation and its employees. Otherwise,

knowing what I know now about ethics, I might have been able to put adjustments in place.

Making more educated decisions can help me avoid ever joining an organization whose

vision I cannot see or whose mission does not align with my values.

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