When She Went Wrong With The Rights Approach

First, the key to a fair and successful group work is communication. Although Natalie only contribute to the bare minimum in the group project such as participating minimally in discussion, writing, and planning, Greg and his group members failed to provide any thorough confrontation and communication, the result became damaging to the team work for the project. For Greg and his team members, their flaw was acknowledging to confront Natalie with her poor performance. Secondly, since there was no clear information provided about why Natalie performed poorly in the project, we can only assume that she did “the best she could”. However, confrontation could apply to the other side as well, Natalie could have confronted her group members about her

That action would have satisfied Natalie and Greg and their teammates by sweeping the problems under the rug. As a result of this action this could provide the greatest volume of benefits over harms for the majority of people. However, this will not resolve the issue itself, and in the long run it could be more damaging to Natalie in the future. With the Rights Approach, the option best respects the rights of all who have a stake, Greg could have respected his teammates and professor by providing the honest evaluation on his own opinion of Natalie’s performance and respecting Natalie in the long run by allowing her to understand and learn from her poor performance. With the Justice approach, Greg would give everyone a fair grade based on their hard work or the amount they contribute to the project. This approach allows everyone to be treated fairly according to their efforts they put in. With the common good approach, Greg would have given all his teammate a mediocre grade, that way it could satisfy everyone by calling the attention of compassion for all others. With the virtue approach, Greg could’ve been an honest person and truthfully and give Natalie a grade that he feels she