{"id":116792,"date":"2019-10-31T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=116792"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:50:53","slug":"uccs-places-second-in-the-9th-annual-business-ethics-case-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=116792","title":{"rendered":"UCCS places second in the 9th annual Business Ethics Case Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The graduate competition team that placed second in the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at UCCS Case Competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eight southern Colorado colleges and universities competed on the UCCS campus for the 9th<\/sup> Annual Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at UCCS Case Competition on Friday, Oct. 25. A record 46 students participated in the case analysis among three tracks: undergraduate 2-year, undergraduate 4-year and graduate. Participants formed teams of two or three students and each group had access to faculty advisors for counsel during the case development <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students traveled from across southern Colorado\nto present their case recommendations to a panel of judges, made up of business\nprofessionals from Colorado Springs and around the U.S. Each presentation\nrequired stakeholder assessment, ethical reasoning and business decision-making\nskills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The undergraduate 2-and-4-year teams were tasked with\nresolving an incident with Atek International, a government contracting firm\nwho just discovered that their new employee posted sensitive company\ninformation and politically-charged opinions to a personal Facebook page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students addressed a tricky multilevel managerial\nsituation involving social media use, company nondisclosure policies and\ncommunication guidelines. Students also provided social media guidelines for\nAtek International to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graduate teams offered recommendations to\nUniversity Hospital, a research hospital that realized 100 of its patients were\nrecently exposed to prion disease, which is a deadly condition similar to mad\ncow disease. Graduate students presented their resolutions, recognizing the\npredicament between disclosing information that could\nsave lives or concealing information and saving the organizations\u2019 reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of the students worked on their cases between midterms, other classwork and work obligations and all of the teams represented their school with professionalism,\u201d said Tracy Gonzalez-Pardon, director of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at UCCS. \u201cEach student demonstrated an understanding of principle-based ethics and decision-making in business \u2013 something employers will notice!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition concluded with an awards\nreception and dinner in the Upper Lodge where business judges, faculty\nadvisors, UCCS College of Business administration, case competition teams and\ntheir guests recognized the 2019 Case Competition Winners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate 2-Year Track<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n