1. LET’S GET REAL: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
Oklahoma Association of School Business Officials
September 25, 2019

2. POWER OF CONVERSATION

3. UNDERSTANDING VALUES Achievement/Accomplishment Advancement Autonomy
Balance
Belonging
Challenge
Compassion
Creativity
Decisiveness
Equality
Fairness
Harmony
Health
Helping Others
Honesty
Influencing People
Independence
Integrity
Leadership
Loyalty
Leisure
Personal Development
Physical Activity
Receiving recognition
Respect
Risk-taking
Safety
Security
Self-expression
Stability
Status
Success
Teamwork
Truth
Wealth

4. WHY ARE ETHICS IMPORTANT?

5. ETHICAL DILEMMAS

6. ETHICAL DILEMMAS WHEN TWO “RIGHT” VALUES ARE IN CONFLICT EXAMPLE:
Your best friend is Jane. She is an art teacher at the elementary school.
You recently participated in a confidential budget discussion where you learned that art funding at the elementary level would be drastically reduced. While you do not know if that reduction means a loss of head count, you do know the reduction will affect Jane.
At the Friday night high school football game, Jane asks about the budget meeting and the rumors about upcoming reductions.

7. UNDERSTANDING VALUES Achievement/Accomplishment Advancement Autonomy
Balance
Belonging
Challenge
Compassion
Creativity
Decisiveness
Equality
Fairness
Harmony
Health
Helping Others
Honesty
Influencing People
Independence
Integrity
Leadership
Loyalty
Leisure
Personal Development
Physical Activity
Receiving recognition
Respect
Risk-taking
Safety
Security
Self-expression
Stability
Status
Success
Teamwork
Truth
Wealth

8. STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

9. WOULDA, SHOULDA, COULDA

10. ETHICAL DECISION MAKING TREE
OPTION I
PROS
CONS
OPTION II
PROS
CONS
OPTION III
PROS
CONS
OPTION IV
PROS
CONS

11. AWARENESS
VALUES
STAKEHOLDERS
OPTIONS
DECISION

12. ETHICAL DILEMMA SCENARIO
On a Friday afternoon, your boss is out of town at a conference and will not be returning until Wednesday. Her signature is required to enroll students in AP classes. Her best friend has called her and requested her child be added to the AP course before Monday.
Your boss calls and tells you to ask the friend to fill out the form. Your boss also asks you to sign the friend’s form with the boss’s name to expedite the enrollment.

13. ETHICAL DILEMMA SCENARIO
On a Friday afternoon, your boss is out of town at a conference and will not be returning until Wednesday. The concessions vendor has a delivery for the football game this evening and requires a signed invoice to drop off the goods.
Your boss’s signature is required on the invoice. You call your boss and she asks you to sign her name on the invoice.

14. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS AND THE POWER OF WHY
SETTING BOUNDARIES
FORCING ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION
OPENING THE CONVERSATION FOR YOUR POSITION
FINDING ALLIES
INCREASES ACCOUNTABILITY!

15. SUMMARY Power of Conversation How to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas
Awareness
Stakeholders
Options
Decision Making
Power of Why and Accountability