UCSC Campus Wide Ethics Briefing Missing Pages

Today the University has required all of its employees participate in an Online Ethics Briefing. Unfortunately Several of the ethics pages went missing from the official distribution. Fortunately some of the pages been recovered and posted here. It would be ideal if people could email the missing ethics pages to ethics [at] ucsc.edu as well as share them online to ensure that future campus wide ethical briefings do not accidentally misplace these critical pages again.

Read the following scenario and consider the Standards of Ethical Conduct that apply. We'll ask you a follow-up question:

Crushing a Student Organized Ethical Career Fair

Students have organize a job fair which promotes ethical non-violent career opportunities which do not discriminate based on sexual orientation. Given the Solomon Amendment, the university must allow military recruiters on campus for UC funded Career Fairs or risk loosing federal funding. But the ECF is organized and funded by student and not subject to the same restrictions. Jane is entrenched in the system and runs the University like a well-oiled machine. Having not participate in ethic courses decides to leverage the University infrastructure to support the state power and excerpt control over all Career Fairs happening on campus whether funded by the University or not. Jane asks University administrator Steve, to develop a plan to sabotages the event while maintaining a facade of neutrality though public relations management.

What should Steve do about Jane's Request?
A. Force the Career Center to back out of the event.
B. Order the immediate blocking of the Ethical Career Center website.
C. Through careful legal maneuvering device a plan to delay approval of portions of the fair to make organizing the fair impossible while at the same time ensuring the students that the fair will take place.
D. None of the Above, publicly criticize the university for its tactics and work with the students allowing them to organize the ECF event.

http://saw.revolt.org/node/73

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for non University employee's here is the email they sent out and a sample ethical page:

The University of California has registered you to complete an online Ethics Briefing offered by Workplace Answers. This interactive briefing contains many challenging and interesting workplace situations and is designed to raise awareness in the University community about the Statement of Ethical Values and Standards of Ethical Conduct, which were adopted by the Board of Regents in May 2005. Please complete the briefing by June 15, 2007.

Online Ethics Briefing Access:

The Ethics Briefing can be taken from any computer with access to the Internet. The briefing takes about 30 minutes to complete. To begin the course, please click on the link below or copy it into the address line of your web browser (Please note, that if you have been registered for another online course from Workplace Answers, the link will take you to a table showing all of your courses. Click on UC Ethics Briefing for this program):

http://www.workplaceanswers.com/login.asp

The briefing does not need to be completed all at once; if you need to return to the briefing, the program will take you to where you last were in the course. Use the link above to resume the course, or to review material at a later date. *NOTE*: The course access link above is personalized for your account alone and will not work if transferred to another person.

Ethics Briefing Questions:

For more information about the Ethics Briefing roll-out at UCSC please visit: http://shr.ucsc.edu/ethics/.

For information on the Statement of Ethical Values and Standards of Ethical Conduct, please visit the UC Ethics Website (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/compliance/ethics). The website also includes the history of the Statement of Ethical Values and Standards of Ethical Conduct, links to UC policies, and ethics resources.

Technical Issues:

This email was sent by Workplace Answers on behalf of the University of California. Please direct all inquiries to ethics [at] ucsc.edu.

Thank you and enjoy the course!

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sample ethical question description
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Meet Edna
Edna is the Business Manager of a large department. She's been a part of the University community for years and runs her department like a well-oiled machine. Her department runs so well, in fact, that others frequently seek her out for advice.

Come along with Edna as she and her colleagues face a number of challenging situations. In each of the following scenarios, do your best to help Edna choose the path toward ethical fitness.

Read the following scenario and consider the Standards of Ethical Conduct that apply. We'll ask you a follow-up question on the next page.

[Illustration of a woman sitting on a bench speaking with another woman] Heading through the hall on her way to an appointment, Edna sees Thuvan, a staff employee who coordinates conferences and meetings for one of the Department's scientific programs. It's Friday morning, and Thuvan is on her way to meet with hotel staff to go over the arrangements for lodging and banquet service for 200 attendees of an upcoming meeting. Thuvan spends lots of Fridays out of the office and "going over arrangements." She reminds Edna she'll be gone for the rest of the day.
Thuvan loves her job because she gets to tour really fancy hotels and sample great food -- and she is always treated as royalty by conference planning managers. She knows that the business (and money!) she brings to the hotels is important to them.

Edna has heard from Thuvan's colleagues that Thuvan has been taking a lot of long weekends at some of the very same hotels that she's been doing business with. Edna thinks it's time to have coffee with Thuvan, so she can go over the rules about University employees and vendor hospitality.

Question:
Keeping in mind the situation presented on the preceding page, which of the 12 Standards of Ethical Conduct should Edna talk about with Thuvan?

A. Edna should remind Thuvan that the University complies with laws concerning the acceptance of gifts from vendors seeking to do business with UC. (4. Compliance with Laws & Regulations)
B. Edna should remind Thuvan of the University policies concerning the acceptance of gifts from vendors seeking to do business with UC. (5. Compliance with University Policies)
C. Edna should remind her that working hours are a University resource that should not be spent on non-University business. (10. Use of University Resources)
D. All of the above

Thuvan's behavior appears questionable on a number of fronts. Edna should talk to Thuvan about all of the Standards mentioned above.