%0 Journal Article
%T Beyond the ¡°I¡°: Framing a model of participatory ethical decision-making for international engineering communication
%A Mark A. Hannah
%A Andrew Berardy
%A Susan G. Spierre
%A Thomas P. Seager
%J connexions : international professional communication journal
%D 2013
%I New Mexico Tech
%X The article reports on findings of an ethics education unit in a cross-institutional partnership¡ªan American university and an Indian university¡ªthat uses noncooperative gaming theory to extend ethics education to take on a global, group/systems perspective. Authors assert that a role of engineering communication at the global level is to position stakeholders to see ethical decision-making as participatory. The authors also comment on four deliberative challenges that students face as they assume participatory roles in ethical decision-making: (1) anticipating and imagining cultural interaction; (2) coordinating the group decision processes primarily through quantitative means of persuasion; (3) cultivating trust; and (4) coping with the challenges of articulating fairness. To address the communication challenges related to fostering participatory ethical decision-making, the authors conclude by opening a conversation about potential avenues for pursuing participatory ethical decision-making in international engineering contexts.
%K Ethics education
%K Participatory decision-making
%K Rhetoric and engineering communication.
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