City of Dallas Choosing the Ethical Path training Population-Specific Small Group Discussion

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EXECUTIVES
SCENARIO 1 Darin is an administrative assistant in the purchasing department. He just sent you an email stating that his manager has signed a series of contracts with the same landscaping equipment vendor for amounts slightly below the $50,000 threshold requiring council action. Darin asks if this could be bid splitting and wants to know what, if anything, he should do next.

SCENARIO 2 You need to fill a critical position in the Finance Department. Last time you needed to fill a similar position you went through the formal recruiting process and it took almost four months to fill the position. This time you are going to avoid repeating this same mistake because you know the perfect person for the job. Youve been sharing lunch with George from Accounting and hes a great guy. He is an excellent worker and has expressed interest in moving to this department.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this email. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

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SUPERVISOR-MANAGER
SCENARIO 1 You are a manager in a predominantly male environment. You recently hired a new female employee and unfortunately, some of the male employees have made inappropriate remarks to her. Although you have not overheard any of the remarks personally, your Admin Assistant told you about the situation. Now that you think about ityou have noticed that Jill seems nervous at the morning team meetings.

SCENARIO 2 Jane, one of your middle managers, just copied you on yet another E-mail to Files about one of her employees, George. This is the fourth e-mail this month outlining that either George was late getting back from his break or that his work quality has not been very good. You ask your Admin Assistant if she knows anything about this situation. Your Admin Assistant reluctantly tells you that George confided in her that he saw Jill stealing some office supplies about a month ago and now he thinks that Jane is out to get him.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

City of Dallas Choosing the Ethical Path training Population-Specific Small Group Discussion

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PROFESSIONAL-TECHNICAL
SCENARIO 1 You are a part-time building inspector for the City. You are looking for full-time employment elsewhere. One of the commercial real estate companies that you frequently inspect buildings for has expressed interest in hiring you.

SCENARIO 2 You sign up for a half-day training course off-site. You sign in and attend for the first hour, but then realize that the training is on content that you already know. You decide to leave at the first break. For the next couple of hours you return some work related calls while running some personal errands. You return to work in the afternoon. You are glad that this training requirement is over at least for this year.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

City of Dallas Choosing the Ethical Path training Population-Specific Small Group Discussion

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ADMINISTRATIVE
SCENARIO 1 Your coworker, Dan, called in sick on Thursday and Friday, however, you are quite sure that Dan was not sick. You are Friends with him on Facebook and you know from looking at his Facebook page that he was on a 4-day trip to South Padre Island.

SCENARIO 2 Pat is an administrative assistant and recently discovered that her supervisor was taking office supplies including toner cartridges for the printer and boxes of recordable CDs. Since the individual taking the supplies was her manager, Pat reported this matter to her managers boss. The manager was reprimanded. However, since that time, Pat has been receiving a huge increase in her work load and her supervisor has been extra critical of everything that she does. Pat also asked to take a vacation day at the end of the month and the supervisor told her no without even offering a reason. Pat thinks she is being unfairly treated because of reporting her supervisors misconduct.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

City of Dallas Choosing the Ethical Path training Population-Specific Small Group Discussion

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OPERATIONS-FIELD
SCENARIO 1 You have a side business on the weekends that sometimes requires follow up phone calls and emails with customers during the work week. You try to do this during your lunch hour or on breaks. Is this acceptable?

SCENARIO 2 You borrow some of the Citys landscaping tools to landscape your backyard over the weekend. You borrow the tools at the end of the day on Friday and return them first thing Monday morning. The tools will not be needed by the City over the weekend.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

City of Dallas Choosing the Ethical Path training Population-Specific Small Group Discussion

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PUBLIC SAFETY - POLICE

SCENARIO 1 You and your wife just purchased a second home that you will rent out for extra income. You have three interested renters, but they all seem a bit questionable. Since you work at the police department, you are planning to run background checks on all of the applicants so you will know if they would be good renters.

SCENARIO 2 You make it a practice to stop in the hospital ER located on your post on weekend nights for the purpose of peeking at the medical history sheets for the names, addresses, and DOB's of patients being treated, and then calling in wanted checks to your agency's Records Unit to ascertain any outstanding warrants. If you get a "hit" on an ambulatory person, you wait outside the ER, and when they leave, you arrest them.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?

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PUBLIC SAFETY FIRE & RESCUE

SCENARIO 1 You are in a firehouse with male and female firefighters. As you approach the break room, a male and female coworker, already in the break room, step away from each other as if startled. As you retrieve your lunch from the refrigerator, the male walks over to say hello. You notice he has lipstick near his mouth and the shade is similar in color to the females lipstick.

SCENARIO 2 You and your partner are called to a scene towards the end of your shift because a female suddenly fainted. Upon arrival the patient is conscious. She informs you she doesnt know why she fainted, shes not pregnant or anemic, but she feels ok now. You prepare to take the patients pulse, but your partner takes over and suggests you obtain the patients biographical information. You note that your partner employs a technique that allows for manipulation and the recorded pulse is just below the mandatory transportation to hospital rule.

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS IN SMALL GROUPS 1. Discuss alternative courses of action and prepare to share with the large group. 2. Determine the specific action steps the group concurs would make the best response to this. 3. What is the Citys policy on this?