Throughout this course we have been analyzing ethical dilemmas related to the field of Organizational/Industrial Psychology. We have studied the different types of ethics related to these dilemmas; personal, group, organizational and societal, and explored many of the trending issues as described by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

For this final assignment, you will be analyzing the Gulf Oil spill that happened in 2010 year. This case study ties in the material we have learned in previous sections through the individual ethics lessons, group (leadership/followership) ethics, and now, organizational ethics.

Assignment Instructions

Below you will find links to information about Deep Water horizon incident. Enough information is provided via the links to complete the assignment or you are welcome to search for additional information to include in your assignment. You will need to utilize all of the information you have studied, discussed and applied throughout this course to thoroughly complete this case study.

Remember to use your Assignment Worksheet [DOC] to help you outline your work and organize your resources.

• Review the following links:
  • Roundup: Gulf Oil Spill Hits 100 Days as BP Struggles for Fresh Start explores the fallout from the Deepwater Horizon explosion, one hundred days after its occurrence.
  • The Spill, a Films on Demand video of a PBS presentation reviewing the Deepwater Horizon explosion, and the impact BP’s questionable business practices and corporate culture had on the disaster.
• Once you have reviewed the documentation, complete the following:
  • Analyze and prioritize the systemic problems at BP. Be sure to address the issues from the Individual, Group (Leadership/followership), Organizational, and Societal levels.
  • Identify the legal issues and ethical dilemmas related to the BP case study. Make sure to reference the documentation provided in the materials that helped you complete your analysis.
  • Address the following:
    • The case study identified what BP provided employees after the Texas city incident. When an accident occurs, what ethical responsibility does a large company have?
    • What is their responsibility to employees, to the community, to the environment in which they are operating, to society?
• BP identified that they hired a new CEO. If the new CEO also hired you as an I/O practitioner to help him establish an ethical culture and safety first mentality, what steps would you take to accomplish those objectives? Provide an action plan.
• Support your analysis and action plan with recent, relevant academic literature, a review of related laws and legal precedents, and documented examples of best practices.
• Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.

Assignment Requirements

• Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Length of paper: Submit 10–12 typed, double-spaced pages (title and reference pages not included).
• Format: Format resources and citations according to current APA guidelines for style and format.
• Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Sources: Cite at least five sources.

SCORING GUIDE

Your Work will be evaluated using this criteria.

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Scoring Guide Criteria

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Demonstrate ability to analyze ethical dilemmas.
  • Analyze the legal and ethical dilemmas faced by an organization at fault for an environmental disaster.
• Competency 2: Incorporate appropriate resources and information to make effective ethical and legal decisions.
  • Support the analysis and action plan with recent, relevant academic literature, a review of pertinent laws and legal precedents applicable to the legal issues and ethical dilemmas, and documented best practices employed by similar organizations.
• Competency 3: Develop legally sound solutions to ethical challenges that are supported by ethical theories, principles, models, and best practices.
  • Develop an action plan designed to address the legal issues and ethical dilemmas that is supported by ethical theories, principles, legal precedents and best practices.
• Competency 4: Apply ethical principles and standards to prevent or mitigate ethical dilemmas.
  • Describe ethical principles and standards that should be addressed when developing an action plan to resolve identified legal issues and ethical dilemmas.
• Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
  • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
• links https://search-proquest-com.library.capella.edu/docview/733075443?accountid=27965 —

Roundup: Gulf oil spill hits 100 days as BP struggles for fresh start

This exercise is worth 20 points. To turn in your work you will need to scan it in and created a PDF file (please send a copy of the original work as well so I can see what you were trying to copy). You are not being graded on your artwork rather on your ability to describe your experience in two to three paragraphs. Talk about how you were feeling prior to the exercise, during it and when it was done. Comment on what you think of this exercise in creativity and relaxation, how it felt to actually do the drawing, how you felt during and after the inverted drawing exercise. Note how you were feeling, what your brain was doing and engaged in before, during and after the exercise.

According to Kalat for almost all right handed people and more than 60% of left handers, the left hemisphere of the brain controls speech while the right hemisphere is responsible for spatial relationships such as what an object would look like if it was rotated. The left brain is verbal, logical, rational and analytical while the right brain deals with images, patterns, dreams, analogies and new ideas. Because of this difference in processing, the right brain is more conducive to the relaxation response (Davis, Eshelman, McKay, 2000).

Using the imaginative and creative part of the brain can be relaxing. This exercise is adapted from The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook (pg 58).I used this exercise in a Stress and Coping course. This exercise draws on the theory and work by Betty Edwards an art teacher and researcher (see the vase-face exercise on the moodle site). She forces her students to shift from thinking about a drawing exercise to intuiting the drawing exercise by asking them to draw the image upside down.

The inverted drawing exercise is designed to cognitively shift you from labeling, logical, rational mode to a nonverbal, visual, intuitive mode the left brain can’t process. After the inverted drawing exercise, according to Edwards, “students reported less time urgency, less attachment to meaning, and a heightened sense of alertness, while feeling relaxed, calm, confident and exhilarated.”

 (adapted from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain as it appeared in The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook (pg 58).

Kalat, J.W. (2008). Introduction to Psychology 9e.

Davis, M., Eshelman, E. R., & McKay, M. (2000). The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook.

Why it is important to develop a professional identity and how to write a professional identity statement

Developing a professional identity requires three important steps: (1) gaining knowledge, skills, and values held by other practitioners in the chosen profession; (2) differentiating oneself from those who are not part of the chosen profession; and (3) identifying with the chosen profession.

Questions

1. Why it is important to develop a professional identity and how to write a professional identity statement.
2. Describe the values and beliefs that influence you as an advanced human services professional practitioner concerned with leading change efforts to benefit individuals and communities and create a more just society.
3. Explain how you define yourself as a practitioner working in a leadership position.
4. Describe your special interests (e.g., specific issues and populations of interest to you, including those that speak to a social justice passion).

Write one page draft and include draft authenticity.

What can Kickstarter do in the coming years to reinforce their competitive advantage? 

From their inception, the founders of Kickstarter were largely aligned in how they prioritized a culture rooted in achievement and ethical behavior.

However, they ran into numerous problems and have also dealt with competitive threats due to the exploding interest in crowdfunding.

Question: What can Kickstarter do in the coming years to reinforce their competitive advantage? 

Instructions:

* I HAVE PROVIDED A TEMPLATE for you to use. CLICK HERE for the Template. 

* Answer the question listed above by providing TWO core strategic actions. You may list additional information and discussion, but focus your efforts on these TWO recommendations that Kickstarter should incorporate. For each recommendation, associate a threat/opportunity with a strength/weakness.

* Also, pay very close attention to the consulting frameworks we have introduced thus far and the criteria that constitute a sustainable competitive advantage.

* Ensure that you adhere to the norms of written communication, including message, grammar, and spelling.