Getting started during the course of your graduate program

1. Getting Started
During the course of your graduate program of study, you will
be
introduced to many business disciplines requiring many types of
insight and decisions. Listening to the words of many different
people who speak the different languages of their discipline and
their culture will be necessary. As we listen and make business
decisions, our moral and ethical foundation must be
preeminent.
Developing a personal ethical statement is the first step in
making
ethical decisions.
Throughout this course, you will be working on the various
components of your personal ethics framework. These pre-
writing
assessments and assignments will help you measure
performance
with respect to important ethical behaviors, skills, or concepts
discussed throughout the course. This assignment will help you
identify behaviors and qualities that contribute to ethical work

2. environments and will help you to identify the related behaviors
you want as part of your ethical framework.
These pre-writing assignments are essential to your final paper
due in Workshop Six.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be
able to:
● Evaluate one’s personal ethical standards and create a
personal/professional framework to guide decision making
compatible with a Christian world-view.
Resources
● Textbook: Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership
● Article: Workplace Helping: Interactive Effects of Personality
and Momentary Positive Affect
Background Information
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

3. -Martin Luther King Jr.
Instructions
1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria
for earning your grade.
2. Read Chapter 5 in Meeting the Ethical Challenge of
Leadership.
3. In your textbook, locate and complete Self-Assessment 5.2:
The Self Report Altruism Scale (completed assessment will
not be submitted as part of the assignment).
4. With clear, insightful critical thinking, reflect and answer the
following questions:
a. What does your score on the Self-Assessment 5.2
reveal about your willingness to help others?
b. Reflect on the article Workplace Helping: Interactive
Effects of Personality and Momentary Positive Affect.
Have you experienced an emotional change after helping
someone? If you had a positive emotional affect did this
encourage you to act this way again?

4. c. How can you engage in more altruistic behavior?
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d. Explain whether you believe your identified changes in
behavior impact the work ethics of others.
5. Your reflection should be between 450 and 700 words and
include at least two scholarly sources. Be sure to use correct
spelling, grammar, and APA format in the paper. For questions
on APA style, go to OCLS APA Writing Styles Guide.
a. Note: cover pages, academic sources, reference pages,
etc. do not count towards the word length requirement
in your paper. Remember the work you do here will
benefit you in completing your final paper in Workshop
Six.
6. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for
yourself (name your assignment

5. “LastName_Ethics_WorkEthics") and submit a copy through
the Assignment Submission Page by the end of the
workshop.
View the associated rubric
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