Monday, October 14, 2013

Considering Kidder

Our given scenario:
A member of the executive board of your fraternity, sorority, or student organization does not have the minimum GPA to continue serving on the executive board, per the written and codified bylaws of the organization. This fact is brought to the attention of the entire board, which, as a group, must decide whether this executive member should be able to remain on the executive board. It is close to the end of the executive board members’ terms. What do you do?

Our breakdown relating this to Kidder's Framework:
We said that this is Justice vs. Mercy because the board could let this person stay, but they have the power to say that they can't stay. Some may even have a personal connection with this person, but at the same time that isn't fair to all the people that weren't able to get onto the executive board because they didn't have the GPA. This is what also makes this a Truth vs. Loyalty scenario. This could be considered Short-Term vs. Long-Term because the board could be thinking that they could keep him for this short time, but how will it look on that group in the future? Or if they let this person go now and they have a really important position what will happen to that position in the long run? And lastly, this is also a Individual vs. Community issue because it's this one person against the rest of the committee.

We said that this is mainly going to be thought about on the lines of Rule-Based Thinking because the committee needs to make a decision about weather or not to kick said person out because they don't have the required GPA which is a set type of "law" for the committee. Some members may have and issue with trying not to focus on Care-Based Thinking because they may have a personal connection with the person and they may not want this person to end up not liking them. This member may not want to ruin his friendship with the other person and may consider giving him a second chance because he's almost done anyways and they may need him for the organization. People who run along the lines of Ends-Based Thinking may be thinking about the overall performance without this person, the impact this may have on how the group will look if they don't kick him off, and if they can find someone intelligent enough to replace this person, or if maybe they could find someone even more intelligent.

What would you do?

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