Earning Criteria

• Earners submit their evidence to an expert in Ethical Reasoning who then evaluates the evidence for competency. For the Silver level of this badge, students have met the following criteria:
• Earners can articulate their ethical stance and are clear about its authoritative sources. They can identify the authoritative source of their ethical stance.
• Earners can define ethical reasoning and can articulate the ethical stance of others.
• Earners can describe the importance of ethical reasoning in an organization. They can articulate examples of short- and long-term problems that emerge from a lack of ethical reasoning.
• Earners can define an ethical dilemma by identifying the different ethical stances of relevant stakeholders in a case presented and explaining why it leads to an ethical dilemma.
• Earners can demonstrate that they understand the differences among the moral, ethical, and legal and are able to articulate how conflicts can occur between the moral and the legal.