Responsibility · Ethics · Component
Dilemma casebook
Ethical dilemmas the organisation has faced, the options weighed, the reasoning and the outcome — kept so the next decision starts from precedent.
The deliverable
What it is
Codes of conduct handle the clear cases. The difficult ones are where two legitimate obligations conflict, and those are settled by judgement. The casebook keeps that judgement, so it can be reused and examined.
It works much as case law does: not binding in a mechanical sense, but a strong starting point. Someone facing a similar situation can see how it was reasoned before, and depart from it knowingly.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
Case description
The situation, anonymised where needed, and the competing obligations that made it a dilemma instead of a simple breach.
3 attributes: Situation · Competing obligations · Occurred
LearnReasoning and outcome
The options considered, the reasoning that decided between them, what was done, and how it looked afterwards.
3 attributes: Reasoning · Outcome · Retrospective
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Keep the cases that went badly. They teach more than the ones that resolved cleanly.
The other components in ethics
Code of conduct
The conduct standards the organisation expects above the legal minimum, written as recognisable situations and traced to the values behind them.
LearnSpeak-up response procedure
What happens after someone raises a conduct concern — acknowledgement, handling, protection from retaliation and feedback to the person who raised it.
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