Welcome to this course on building your ethical intelligence. My name is Blaire cook and in the previous course we raised your awareness of ethically charged situations. And in today's course, we're going to focus on approaches to dealing with such situations. In this first lesson, we're going to begin by doing a fun little quiz just to get you practice doing some decision making. Are you ready to go? All right?

All you'll need is a little scratch paper to keep track of your answers to the following five questions. Question number one, you notice that your friend Margaret has posted a new picture of herself on Facebook in which she is smoking a joint with one hand while holding a bottle of rum with the other? What would you do? Call her to say that you don't think the photo is a good idea? B, just ignore it. It's her life.

See, like the photo, or D make a copy of the photo just in case you need leverage someday. Question number two, you're having a drink in a pub and over here to coffee. Colleagues talking openly about a customer situation which is highly sensitive. They are mentioning the customer by name, as well as the specifics of the situation. What would you do? Hey, talk to them and raise your concern about confidentiality, be ignored.

It's none of your business. See, return to the office and tell your supervisor or D use your cell phone to record the situation and post the clip on YouTube. Question number three, you take your 10 year old son to a restaurant that is advertising the kids under 10. Eat free. The restaurants management does considers your son to be an adult. What would you do?

A inform the server that your son is under the age of 10 be asked for two adult menus. See, tell your son to say he's nine years old if he's asked or D ask your son what he wants to do and then do that. Question number four, one of your employees is always late to Long breaks and leaves early in a few months ago you fired someone else for doing the same thing. This employee however is the son of a close personal friend. You've talked with him in the past but the problems continue. What would you do?

A fire him and know you may be jeopardizing your friendship. Be ignore it because your friendship is more important. See, talk to him again and give a formal warning. Or D ask your friend his parrot to talk with him. Question number five, you wake up in a workday with the flu but are expecting a really important announcement to happen that day. What would you do a stay home and rest and find out about it tomorrow.

Be stay at home and work. You can call someone later to find out what was announced. See go to work but avoid close contact with other people or D go to work but only engage with people you don't like. Okay, we're going to look at the potential responses to this quiz in the lessons Come, however, let's just reflect upon the quiz itself. First of all, I'm going to ask you a question. Whether or not you recognize or perhaps even believe that each of these five situations were indeed ethical scenarios.

Most people don't even recognize that ethics is embedded in everyday situations like these. Secondly, how did you make your decisions? And each of these scenarios? Was it a toolkit of guests? Was it based on your past behavior? Was it based on how you felt at the moment?

Did you consider who may benefit? Or did you consider the risk of being caught? Most people make these decisions in an instant, they don't stop and necessarily think about the range of implications or possible outcomes. We explored these means and ends rationalizations in our previous course, and recognize that there is a lot of different rationalizations that one can use to justify their actions. So as we begin looking at the approaches to ethical situations. In this course, I want you to think about and recognize that first and foremost ethical decisions are made every day.

And they're all around us. And that secondly, that these decisions can often be much more involved than that intuitive first hunch that the right side of your brain wants to make. And instead to slow down and use the left side and the ethical intelligence of logic in evaluating each of these situations. So that's what we're going to pick up on our next lesson. We'll see you then.