Home Run Ethical Analysis

Organizational Issues: The Responsibility Project: The Home Run Cleveland Ivery ETH/316 Version 2 09/01/2013 Ryan Busch

In life, we as conscious, responsible and humane individuals all have the responsibility of doing the right thing, even if others may not think are actions are justified. Good ethics is the key to achieving this goal. Ethics can best be defined as doing the right thing in a religious aspect, abiding by what the law requires as well as the standards that society accepts. Ethics often will require
Ethically, I thought that the team did their best but had just unfortunately come up short to close out the game due to the injury sustained. The ethical lens that I used to make my decision in this scenario was the rights lens: individual/reflective, which denotes that an ethical action is doing one’s duty and following ethical standards of action. This lens as applied to the scenario, The Home Run, would have prompted the Central Washington University team to accept their loss due to respect for the rules and regulations that govern the game as a whole. For me it was completely unexpected for the opposing team to come out and give the injured player help because they didn’t have to and it would have sealed a definite win for their team. The rights lens denotes following the ethical action standard, which is to do the right thing even if it is of no benefit to you. The injured player would have had to physically go back and touch the bases and make it to the home plate for the homerun to be redeemable, but she was unable to because of her injury. The rights lens would have prompted the injured player to take a loss because it was