7D Dilemmas

Ice-breakers

• Have you ever been in a position where you had to decide between two really good things...and you could only have one, not both? What did you do?
• How do you make difficult decisions? Do you think about them for a long time and choose the most logical option? Or do you make instant decisions based on your feelings?
• When you have a difficult decision to make do you find it helpful to get advice from other people - or does that just confuse you?
• Are women better at giving and accepting good advice than men?

Dilemmas

1. Luis works for a company that wants to open a small factory in Grito. It's a very poor area and the factory will provide work for eighteen local people who are currently unemployed and very poor. But on the proposed factory site there are currently 25 shacks (very simple buildings made from old scraps of wood and metal) where about 80-90 people live. If they have to move, they will have nowhere to live and will need to find a new location miles away. Should Luis recommend that they build the factory or no?

2. Branka works in the research laboratories of a large lighting company. Last week, she made a major discovery. She invented a light bulb that needs almost no electricity and never dies. It lasts forever! She knows that this would save money for millions of people around the world and would dramatically reduce power use, and help to save the world from global warming. But, if she announces this discovery, her company could lose all its profits (because no one would ever need to buy light bulbs again). She is worried that the company will refuse to produce the product, and that, instead of being a hero, she will lose her job. What should she do?


Further material Dirty jobs