Ethics Scenario Simulator

Practice the ethics calls that don’t have an obvious answer. Joy plays out realistic dilemmas from your code of conduct, reacts to each decision you make, and coaches you toward the policy-aligned move before the real moment arrives.

For Ethics & Compliance Officers L&D and Training Teams People Managers New Hires
Sample prompt to Joy's Assistant

/roleplay a workplace ethics scenario from our code of conduct: [a colleague asks me to help score a vendor bid where her spouse's company is bidding]. Play the other party, then coach me on each decision with the relevant code section.

What it can look like

/roleplaya workplace ethics scenario from our code of conduct: a colleague asks me to help score a vendor bid where her spouse's company is bidding. Play the other party, then coach me on each decision with the relevant code section.

You're the employee; I'll play Priya, your teammate, drawn from the conflicts-of-interest section of your code of conduct. I'll stay in character, then step out to coach you. Here's the scene: Priya has been handed the vendor scoring for a $180,000 analytics contract, and one of the three bidders, Meridian Systems, is where her husband Dan is a sales director.

Priya
Can you take the vendor scoring for the analytics contract off my plate this week? You know the rubric better than anyone, and I'm buried. Just rank the three bids and send me the shortlist, I'll handle the write-up.
Happy to help with your workload in general, but Meridian is in this bid and Dan works there. If I score it and route it back through you, that's the exact conflict our code flags. We should both declare it and let Procurement reassign the scoring.
Priya
It's one line on a rubric. Nobody is going to care, and the deadline is Friday. You'd be doing me a favor.
I care, and so will the audit if Meridian wins. I'll email Procurement and our manager today, note the relationship, and ask them to hand the scoring to someone with no tie to the bidders. That protects you as much as me.

Coaching

  • You named the conflict out loud instead of quietly working around it. Section 4.1 asks you to disclose, not just avoid, so reshuffling the task on the quiet would have left the relationship undocumented and still a problem in an audit.
  • You caught that doing the work and handing it back still counts. The conflict doesn't disappear because Priya signs the final write-up; the code treats influencing the outcome the same as deciding it. Good instinct.
  • Holding against "nobody will care" is the real test, and you kept it warm. Framing disclosure as protecting Priya too is exactly how Section 4.3 wants these raised, as a shared safeguard rather than an accusation.
  • One thing to tighten: put it in writing the same day. Emailing Procurement and your manager is right, and the code also asks you to log the disclosure in the conflicts register so there's a dated record, not just an email thread.

Want a harder one: a vendor offering you playoff tickets the week before you renew their contract?

Want a harder one? Point it at your gifts and hospitality policy and practice declining a vendor’s playoff tickets without damaging the account.

An illustrative example. Your output will reflect your own sources, data, and prompts. This is an abridged sample. A live /roleplay runs one turn at a time and keeps going for as long as you practice.

Build ethical judgment through practice

Ethics Scenario Simulator drops employees into realistic dilemmas — a conflict of interest, an offered gift, a nudge to round up an expense, pressure to stay quiet about a colleague — and makes them decide. Joy plays the other person, reacts to each call, and then steps out to coach against the specific section of your code of conduct.

  1. Point Joy at your code of conduct

    Add your code of conduct and related ethics policies (conflicts of interest, gifts and entertainment, expense rules) to the Knowledge Center, or connect the source. Joy grounds every scenario and every coaching note in your actual rules.

  2. Ask for a scenario

    Tell Joy the dilemma you want to practice — a conflict of interest, an offered gift, an expense you’re tempted to round up — and that you want to play it out. Joy sets the scene and plays the other person.

  3. Practice live

    Joy stays in character and responds to your decisions in real time, by text or voice. You make the calls, and a wrong turn here costs nothing.

  4. Get coaching and run it again

    After the exchange Joy steps out to debrief: what you handled well, where the risk was, and the section of the code behind each call. Change the scenario and go again.

  5. Make it one click for your team

    Save this ask as a custom command on the assistant your team already uses, so anyone can run it in one step.

Make it yours

Realistic Dilemmas

Based on the situations employees actually face: a friend’s conflict, a vendor gift, a padded expense. No cartoon villains, just plausible pressure.

Voice Mode

Practice saying the hard sentence out loud, the way you’d have to in a hallway or on a call, instead of only typing it.

Grounded in Your Code

Every scenario and every coaching note ties back to the exact section of your code of conduct that governs it. No generic ethics platitudes.

Adaptive Difficulty

Start with clear-cut calls, then move to the genuinely ambiguous ones where reasonable people disagree. Joy meets you where you are.

Conflicts of Interest

Practice disclosing a personal relationship, recusing from a decision, or handling a family member bidding on your project.

Gifts & Hospitality

Rehearse declining or logging vendor gifts, event tickets, and dinners without souring the relationship.

Expenses & Reporting

Work through the temptation to round up a receipt, misclassify a cost, or approve a teammate’s questionable claim.

Speaking Up

Practice raising a concern about a colleague’s behavior and deciding when it goes to your manager, the ethics line, or HR.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does AI roleplay improve ethics training?

Traditional ethics training explains the code of conduct but doesn’t build judgment. JoySuite’s AI roleplay puts employees in realistic dilemmas where they make actual decisions, get immediate feedback tied to the relevant policy section, and learn from mistakes in a safe setting before facing the real situation.

What ethics scenarios can employees practice?

Practice scenarios cover conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality, expense and reporting temptations, handling confidential or insider information, speaking up about a colleague, and third-party conduct. You can shape scenarios around your own code of conduct and the situations your teams actually meet.

How do I make this available to my whole team?

Save the ask as a custom command on the assistant your team already uses, so anyone can start the same drill in one step. The practice is self-directed: each person runs the scenarios whenever they want the reps.

Can scenarios adapt to different experience levels?

Yes. Joy starts with clear-cut calls and progresses to genuinely ambiguous edge cases based on how you respond, so a new hire and a seasoned manager each get scenarios matched to their level.

Is voice mode available for ethics scenario practice?

Yes. Employees can practice their responses out loud for the situations that happen in person, like a hallway ask from a colleague or a vendor conversation over dinner. Voice mode makes the rehearsal closer to the real moment.

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