Course Schedule
Week 5 - Framing the context of moral problems and shaping a culture of ethics
Meet online at 6pm
Read F. Clark Power, Building Democratic Community
Watch my video blog, Lenses for thinking about moral dilemmas
Watch Amy Edmondson, Learning from Failure
Read Fab Five Case Study Narrative available in Blackboard. News coverage and supplemental materials are not required but available if interested.
We will discuss Fab Five case in class. As you read the case study there are a few possible lenses you may use to analyze the case:
a) The moral schemas used by the central characters in the case
b) The dominant frames
c) The stages of decision making and obstacles that made it difficult to successfully move from one stage to the next
You do not need to exhaust each of these three lenses and in fact I am leaving it to you to choose how to structure your thoughts. So that means that you should feel free to choose any of the approaches we have used in this class to think about the moral issues in this case. As always, try to consider the role of the leaders (broadly defined) on this campus and how you suggest they might have handled this situation more effectively.
In the Week 5 journal entry for today I want you to consider the learning from failure video. What are the barriers you see in learning from your personal failures (think of the 3 and others I had you think about last week) and how can leaders create organizational cultures that support a positive approach to processing failure, learning from it, and incorporating those lessons in to future behavior or decision making?