Research Catalog

Title

Evaluating a problem-based learning strategy for enhancing ethical awareness in negotiation / Robert J. Pleban [and others].

Publication

[Arlington, Va.] : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, [2011]

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Additional Authors

• Pleban, Robert J.
• U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Description

1 volume (various pagings) : charts (chiefly color); 28 cm.

Summary

A problem-based learning strategy (Bransford & Schwartz, 1998) was used to develop a training protocol to enhance U.S. Military Academy (USMA) Cadets' awareness of ethical issues and decision-making processes in negotiation situations. The training protocol was tested in an upper-level course on negotiations at USMA. Cadets were assigned to either an experimental (training) or a control (no training) group. The experimental group was exposed to four negotiation scenarios at one-month intervals, and were asked to evaluate the scenario for potential ethical issues, to role-play the scenario in class, and then to evaluate their own and others' negotiation and ethical decision-making performances. Role-plays were followed by an after action review in which the instructor encouraged Cadets to discuss their ethical evaluation and decision-making processes. Following the fourth scenario, the instructor presented a lecture describing a thematic model of ethical sense-making (cf. Graves, Pleban, Miller, Branciforte, Donigian, Johnson, & Matthews, 2010) and how the model could be applied to facilitate decision-making across different contexts. Pre-post training assessments indicated that the training strategy significantly improved the experimental group's sensitivity to themes related to ethical sense-making and decision making in military specific situations relative to scores obtained from the control group. Also, post exercise ethical awareness scores correlated significantly with Cadets' negotiation strategies. The Cadets' responses to the training were favorable. The training strategy may be used to support experiential and dialogue-based professional military ethics training for officer Cadets and newly commissioned junior officers (ROTC, OCS, and USMA).

Series Statement

Research report ; 1938

Uniform Title

Research report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1938.

Subject

• United States Military Academy
• Problem-based learning > United States
• Psychology
• Ethics
• Decision making
• Military education > United States
• Psychology
• Ethics
• Decision Making
• psychology
• ethics (philosophy)
• decision making
• Military education
• Problem-based learning
• United States

Note

• Cover title.
• "January 2011."
• "Army project number 633007A792."--P. iii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23).

Access (note)

• Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

OCLC

• ocn743094520
• 743094520
• SCSB-1616226

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library