Assignment Rationale: The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with an
opportunity to contemplate their own ethical beliefs and foundations and analyze how those
beliefs will guide their decision making as sport administration professionals.

Assignment Details: As a sport administrator you will face ethical dilemmas in myriad of
professional capacities. From hiring/firing, due diligence, finance, recruiting, equity issues, and
athlete well-being (to name a few), it will be your responsibility to consider such dilemmas and
render sound ethical decisions. The ability to make considerate ethical decisions requires a
fundamental understanding of philosophical ethical foundations.

This assignment will provide you with an opportunity to research ethical foundations, select a
specific ethical foundation you most identify with, and consider how you will apply that ethical
foundation to your decision making as a sport administration professional.

Specifically, you will select one normative ethical philosophy (utilitarianism, deontology, or
virtue ethics) as the philosophy that best represents your ethical beliefs. You will then research
this philosophy and provide a brief summary of its history and principles (minimum of three
academic references are required). You will then reflect and detail why this ethical philosophy
represents your ethical beliefs the best. Lastly, you will explain how this ethical philosophy will
guide your decision making as a sport administration professional.

This paper should be 3-5 pages double-spaced in APA format. You must also include a
reference page in APA format.