1.15 Apply the FAIR Test (LO1.4)

Choose a recent communication event (conversation, email exchange, and so on) that you were involved in, observed, or heard about. If possible, choose a communication event that occurred in the workplace and that involved a challenging ethical problem. Analyze the communication event with the FAIR test of ethical business communication. Devote at least one paragraph to each aspect of the test:

(a) facts (how factual was the communication?);

(b) access

(how accessible or transparent were the motives, reasoning, and information?);

(c) impacts (how did the communication impact stakeholders?);

(d) respect (how respectful was the communication?).

See Figure 1.4 for more information about the FAIR test.