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Week 5 Discussion 1
Discussion Topic
Students need to contribute three substantive
posts in this discussion by the due date indicated. The substantive posts must
include a 150+ word response to the discussion question and a 150+ word
response to 2 additional [separate] students. Late discussion posts do not earn
credit. A response to the discussion activity must be posted on time in order
to receive credit for posts to additional students.
Read Case 13.1: Choosing a Research Assistant, page 355.
Reply to the three questions at the end of the case, 150+
words.
Ensure you cite and reference your replies appropriately,
per the examples provided in the Week 1 APA Citing and Reference Examples
document.
Reply to 2 additional students, 150 plus words each.
CASE 13.1
Choosing a Research
Assistant
Dr. Angi Dirks is the
chair of the state university’s organizational psychology department, which has
four teaching assistants (TAs). Angi has just found out that she has received a
grant for research work over the summer and that it includes money to fund one
of the TAs as her research assistant. In Angi’s mind, the top two candidates
are Roberto and Michelle, who are both available to work over the summer.
Roberto, a foreign student from Venezuela, has gotten very high teaching
evaluations and is well liked by the faculty. Roberto needs a summer job to
help pay for school since it is too expensive for him to return home for the
summer to work. Michelle is also an exceptional graduate student; she is
married and doesn’t necessarily need the extra income, but she is going to
pursue a PhD, so the extra experience would be beneficial to her future
endeavors.
A third teaching
assistant, Carson, commutes to school from a town an hour away, where he is
helping to take care of his aging grandparents. Carson manages to juggle
school, teaching, and his home responsibilities well, carrying a 4.0 GPA in his
class work. Angi knows Carson could use the money, but she is afraid that he
has too many other responsibilities to take on the research project over the
summer.
p.356
As Angi weighs which TA
to offer the position, a faculty member approaches her about considering the
fourth TA, Analisa. It’s been a tough year with Analisa as a TA. She has
complained numerous times to her faculty mentor and to Angi that the other TAs
treat her differently, and she thinks it’s because of her race. The student
newspaper printed a column she wrote about “being a speck of brown in a campus
of white,” in which she expressed her frustration with the predominantly White
faculty’s inability to understand the unique perspectives and experiences of
minority students. After the column came out, the faculty in the department
became wary of working with Analisa, fearing becoming part of the controversy.
Their lack of interaction with her made Analisa feel further alienated.
Angi knows that Analisa
is a very good researcher and writer, and her skills would be an asset to the
project. Analisa’s faculty mentor says that giving the position to her would go
a long way to “smooth things over” between faculty and Analisa and make Analisa
feel included in the department. Analisa knows about the open position and has
expressed interest in it to her faculty mentor, but has not directly talked to
Angi. Angi is afraid that by not giving it to Analisa, she may stir up more
accusations of ill treatment while at the same time facing accusations from
others that she is giving Analisa preferential treatment.
Questions
1. Of
the four options available to Angi, which is the most ethical?
2. Using
the principles of distributive justice, who would Angi choose to become the
research assistant?
3. From
Heifetz’s perspective, can Angi use this decision to help her department and
faculty face a difficult situation? Should she?
4. Do
you agree with Burns’s perspective that it is Angi’s responsibility to help
followers assess their own values and needs in order to raise them to a higher
level that will stress values such as liberty, justice, and equality? If so,
how can Angi do that through this situation?