Case study of GVV- Glorious Five

Know ourselves, know our professional purpose and be aware of common rationalisationss

Scope

Listen to others opinions about the ethical dilemma

What is GVV process?

Work out a process to take action and perform research to back up our arguments

• Background to the case

• Self-knowledge

Develop and practice scripts and accept that values conflicts are normal; and

Acknowledge that we always have a choice

• Purpose and choice

• Motivators and enablers

• Virtue ethics
• Aristotle - Everyone has a moral compass and possesses values
• People want to express values and act on them
• Universal set of core values people want to express

• The process

• Research and data

• Our GVV script

• Integration

Any questions?

Recommendations

• Conclusion and recommendations

Defining Purpose and Choice

Scripts

Integration

Motivators and Enablers

Broader purpose

• Empowering to appeal to a set of positive goals

• The protagonists broader purpose: being fair and honest

Specific purpose

• The broader purpose could have been used to guide the protagonists decision

• Disablers not to act is often absence of enablers

• What do I want to achieve by addressing the issue?

• Silence would cause the company to go insolvent

• Short-term VS long-term perspective

• Where the protagonist can find motivators and enablers?

Set up of the script

Manager's office

Allies

Incremental steps

Mary has asked her team leader,

Fred into the office for

a private conversation.

They are good friends, so Fred is happy to talk with Mary.

1.Build Scripts

One-on-one private conversation

Long-term

or

short-term?

• Ask question / Raise concern

Buys time while working on reaching on the common goal

2.Reframing the situation

• Research on company laws

• Reviewed existing contract

Build stronger arguments

3.Practice the conversation with Management

Build ethical muscle!

Incremental

steps

she obtains more confidences

Achieving smaller goals

Break into smaller steps

Self-knowledge

The process

• Pragmatist

• Core values

Rationalization:

• False dichotomy (reputation vs profit)
• Authority (Boss is always right)
• Self interest (Promotion)
• Pandora's box

Have broader purpose, recognise strengths, make allies, and do research

Rationalizations:

• Denying the impact of insolvency(Ostrich syndrome)
• Overoptimistic
• Legality rationalisation

Enabler:

• Locus of Loyalty
• Long-term vs short-term gain

Loyalty

Honesty

Trust

Compassion

Open-mindedness

Balance

• Assertive about problems

Raise her concern

Have conversations

with team leader

Rationalization :

Heuristic

(Business is Business)

Enablers:

• Reframing
• Honesty
• Loyalty
• Showing common goal

Keeping silent was an

unusual behaviour

Find allies

Rationalization:

• Materiality rationalization
• Common standard practice

Research & Data

What is the story...

Practice scripts to build ethical muscles

Other

Data resources

A case of Denise Foley in GVV

• Contract & clause in this case

• Company & Labour law

Get ideas of how to take action

• Financial statement of the supplier

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GIVING VOICES TO VALUES CASE ANALYSIS

Team 10 -- Glorious Five