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Name: Theory Building Activities: "Responsibility and Incident at Morales"
ID: m15627
Language: English (en)
Summary: The "Incident at Morales" dramatizes a fictional industrial accident that occurred at a chemical plant in the village of Morales. Produced by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics with a grant from the National Science Foundation, this video raises a series of important ethical problems that engineers and other professionals face when they make decisions and solve problems in the dynamic, competitive context of business. This module provides a theory-building activity where students plan and carry out an imaginary public hearing into who is responsible for the incident. It sets forth summaries of the different senses of the concept of moral responsibility, outlines the different constituencies participating in the public hearing, and provides a time line for preparing for, carrying out, and debriefing on the public hearing. Students learn about moral responsibility by using different responsibility frameworks to prepare public statements, raise questions, and reach blame assessments about the incident at morales. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Business
Keywords: Business, Ethics, Incident at Morales, Professional, Responsibility
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: Dec 14, 2007 5:25 am US/Central
Last revision to module: Jul 12, 2008 12:27 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m15627_1.4.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.4 Jul 12, 2008 12:27 pm GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
Minor edits on sharing responsibility and responsive adjustment sections.
Version: 1.3 Jul 12, 2008 9:28 am GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
Deleted sections and tables on sharing responsibility.  Added section on principle of responsive adjustment.  Reformatted sections, added stakeholder role of government regulatory agency, and put instructor in charge of commission.
Version: 1.2 Feb 7, 2008 1:59 pm US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Minor stylistic edits
Version: 1.1 Dec 15, 2007 6:09 pm US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
First Version

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