Use of the PBEI in Training:

The PBEI has three fundamental uses.

Firstly, it helps respondents evaluate both their level of ethical sensitivity and their ability to judge the seriousness of ethical weight in business issues by comparing their responses to our panel of 562+ private and public managers. (The Inventory is self-scoring for measuring one's ethical sensitivity and ethical judgment, and provides interpretations of one's ethical profile.
The Trainers' Guide provides full instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Inventory.)

Secondly, it helps respondents judge the degree they are part of what might be called a moral community with peers, customers, and our reference sample.

Thirdly, it helps illustrate how and why people disagree with each other morally and how to discuss and resolve such differences. (Our Trainers' Guide outlines a 90-120 minute session
for doing this discussion.)

This third use of the instrument is an important training goal - to teach business people how to discuss ethical issues, especially ethical disagreements, in the workplace.

Applications for the PBEI:

Opening exercise for a workshop/course in business ethics.
A demonstration of the diversity of values and perspectives in the workplace and how to discuss and resolve ethical disagreements.
Introduction to a discussion of human resource policies and/or codes of ethics

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