Personal & Business Ethics

Good day!

So far, you have done a lot of "setup" for the year. You have:
   1. set up your email account,
   2. made sure your email is working
   3. created your Google Account
   4. sent your first 'shared document' from Google Drive (aka... GoogleDocs)

Between now and Friday, you should also create a blogger site (from http://www.blogger.com), which will use your Google Account information to set up your 'online portfolio'. Please email me the address of your blog site when you have finished this (thanks).

Now...

ASSIGNMENT #1:
Theme:  Personal & Workplace Ethics
   Start Date:  February 5th, 2014
   End Date:  February 7th, 2014

Before we look at creating, learning, and applying skills that will help you in your future workplace skills, we'll take some time to look at "Workplace Ethics". [In the future, I may add this into other coursework, as a reminder].

Employers always appreciate when people act "ethically"... but what does that mean? Ethics refers to the reasons why people do what they do... is it for selfish reasons? is it to help other people? is it to work together to solve problems?  The ethics a person has will guide how a person acts in many different situations.

The goal of this first assignment is for you to describe your personal ethics, and how you will be able to show it in this class. You'll also be able to analyze different situations in business where ethics guides decisions that people make.

What to Do:

1. InfoPro 10-20-30:  Create a 'Google Drive Presentation' and add a Title Slide with your name, the class, and the theme you see above. WHEN YOU ARE READY TO HAND IN, share the presentation with Mr.Hackl.

2. From slides #2 to #5, (a) find any 3 definitions of 'ethics' (cite your sources), and use them to develop your own definition of the term ETHICS. (b) Describe where you think your ethics comes from, and why it is important to be "ethical" in your workplace (and general life, too). (c) Finally, explain why it is true that a "good student" in this class will also be "ethical". [Use appropriate pictures to highlight all of these thoughts.]

3. Finish the Presentation:
> InfoPro10:  Use the 3 files in the  >Public  >InfoPro  >10  folder:  "Honesty/Integrity.pdf" , "Beginning a New Job.pdf", and "Workplace Health.pdf". On your powerpoint...
           a) Type ANY 1 (ONE) of the case's word-for-word [one for each file], and then
           b) Answer the questions provided for ALL the cases in the file.

> InfoPro20-30: Use the file in the >Public  InfoPro  >20 30  folder: "Professionalism in the Office.pdf" and finish these on your presentation:
          a) Project 2 and Project 3,
          b) define each of these with an example, and explain [with an example] how it can hurt a business:
                       rationalization, breach of confidence,
          c) what is the benefit to a business of a positive self-image, and how can you develop one?
          d) explain the value of a 'positive work environment', and how you can contribute to a 'positive class environment'
          e) Project 7
          f) Project 8
          g) Project 9
          h) explain how you can contribute to positive morale in class