I attented a workshop dealing with Ethics. To be honest, the word ethics always gets me. For some reason, I couldn’t remember what it meant. However, after this workshop, I understand. Ethics has to do with morals, basically what’s right and wrong. We did a few activities, the first of which was to pick a side of the room representing our agreement or disagreement on a certain scenario. An example of one was whether or not we’d keep a TV given to us by a potential client even if it was against business policy. Only one person said they would. Haha.
The next activity was to decide whether certain examples of writing were plagerized or not. The last was the most fun where we were all given a scenario and we had to decide whether we would act “right or wrong”. One of them asked if we would steal some medication a doctor was charging too much on in order to save our spouses life. YES WE WOULD!
I agree with Sabrina. This workshop was very helpful and i never really knew exactly what ethics was – until now. I always thought ethics would have just one meaning. But it turns out that it is a lot more.
The examples used in the workshop were fun, entertaining, yet very educational. It indirectly taught us how to use ethics in real life and how we really do use it in everyday life. One activity was figuring out what documents were plagerized from a list of a few excerpts. It wasn’t too hard to figure them out. Another activity was that there could only be 7 people on a lifeboat, and we had to choose from about 12 people. Some of us students were used as the different characters on the list and we went through all of them to see which ones were the most important. That was the most interesting activity.
There were many more activities but the whole point of the workshop was to teach us young freshmans about ethics and how to use them as we grow up and get more mature.
I found this workshop extremely helpful.