1. The most ethical decision is if she turns left into town and report the accident to the police. Even if she turns herself in and jeopardizes to lose her school-funding grant, she knows she did the right thing and her conscious is clean. She caused a fatal accident that killed the other driver, which means she must report to the police. If she doesn’t, then her friend should turn her in and help her for the long run. Human moral and ethical values are more important then the award for the school grant and reputation in the company. In the Deckop Chapter article-“Theoretical Bases for Analyzing the Ethics of a Decision”, it compares the utilitarianism and universalism theories. It states that utilitarianism is regarding “the greatest good for the greatest number and the ends justify the means”. It’s not ethical to disregard the law and serve the greater good. If she was killed in a deadly car accident, I’m sure she would want someone to report her death to the police who would later notify her loved ones. Running away from an accident is not only unethical, but is also a crime and there is no justification for it. The consequences of fleeing a crime scene is more severe than turning yourself in. “The pressures of a situation may cause one to apply self-serving biases that while in the short-run appear acceptable, in the long-run result in damage to one’s firm, career or self in terms of staying true to ethical principals and human morals”(Desktop, 2008). I strongly agree with this statement. If she won’t report to the police, and deny what she did, she would be living with her guilt knowing she knew what was the right thing to do, but she made the wrong decision. By knowing she is responsible for someone’s life and didn’t notify anybody, in the long run, it will destroy her emotionally (guilt, depression or even suicide).…
Yes, it is important for organizational ethical value to support his or her value. Values begin at home first. One has to have compassion in his or hearts to support the ethical values of the American Red Cross to begin with. The American Red Cross values are compassionate, collaborative, creative, credible, and committed (American Red Cross 2012). The values listed here is the foundation for this organization; the same values should be followed and supported by individuals.…
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation was a division of Squibb Corporation. Its chewing gum segment was profitable but was sold in 1973. Beech-Nut’s baby food division, which had 15% of the baby food market, had never been profitable, and by 1978 creditors were increasingly anxious.…
The company that I chose to compare to my Ethics Awareness Inventory Scoring Summary is Pfizer. Pfizer is a multination pharmaceutical company; they develop and produce medicines and vaccines for a wide range of conditions. Pfizer is a company had an annual income of 67 Billion dollars last year (P., 2012). Some of the popular products that Pfizer makes are Advil, Celebrex, Viagra and Lipitor. The reason I chose Pfizer is because I have always been interested in the company because it is their moral obligation to serve the people of the world community with pharmaceutical goods for the betterment of the life of the community.…
I believe in conducting myself with integrity. It is imperative that I exercise good judgment in all my endeavors whether it is personal or professional. It has been said that you are only as good as your word. This is a mantra that I live by. I am also a firm believer in honesty. With integrity comes honesty.…
Running Head: VALUES AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Running head: SELECTING THE RIGHT COMMUNICATION CHANNEL � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �3�…
Values are the things that are most important to us, and they are the foundation of who we are. “A significant portion of the values we hold is established in our early years—by parents, teachers, friends, and others” (Robbins & Judge, 2011, p. 10). They may also come from special groups that we are a part of including cultural or religious. A few examples of some personal values include honesty, responsibility, loyalty, respect, and ambition to name a few. It is important to realize your values because they affect your everyday decisions from home to work life. How we treat the people that we come in contact with is a direct reflection of our personal values.…
In order to start this paper, I had to make sure I knew the differences between values, moral and ethics. It’s believed that values are what we learn from childhood from parents and surrounding influences of adults involved in the child’s life. Morals are the beliefs developed from that value system and how one should behave in any given situation. Ethics on the other hand is how someone actually behaves in the situation that may test ones morals and values, wow are you confused yet?…
Decision making in our personal, as well as our professional lives, is basically a byproduct of life itself; which is governed by our lifelong experiences and endeavors. In life, we encounter different circumstances that cause us to react in a certain manner; consequently, all reactions are based on our personal and cultural beliefs that are instilled in us at an early stage in life. Michael Josephson (2002), states in Making Ethical Decisions…
All people have personal values and ethics, just as they have cultural values. Often times, those personal values and ethics may clash with those of their employer. As an example, as an individual, a person's ethical guidelines might require honesty, integrity and respect. If that individual works for a company that does not necessarily operate under those same tenets, the employee may well face an ethical dilemma. This paper looks into how personal values, organizational values and ethical values come into play in the decision-making process.…
I have learned a great deal about the difference between integrity, morality, and ethics. From the article, the term integrity means that it is “a matter of a person’s word—nothing more and nothing less”. It is important that one should know the difference between integrity, morality, and ethics. I learned that integrity is more on the commitment a person makes and keeps to fulfill what he/she said he would do. I feel it poignantly relates to my experience right now as I am writing this article. I am truly grateful once again Brother Preece for this opportunity to submit this article. I’m thankful that you have allowed me to send it till this last day of the year. As I want to be a man of integrity, I am submitting this article today. There are a lot of personal experiences that I can relate to with the concept of integrity. When I was on my mission, I had to commit to never disobey the mission rules. I kept that commitment and I feel that my mission president deems me a man of integrity. I would like to continue explaining some other instances in my life where I experienced integrity. For now, I want to explain the other two concepts of morality and ethics. Morality is of a broader scope. It refers to the principles and ideologies of good and bad behavior expected by the general society. Ethics, on the other hand, refers to expectations of values a group or organization should uphold. Ethics is an integral value—meaning it differs from different social groups to the other. For instance, Catholics might not deem drinking beer as a negative behavior, in fact they might deem it as something worth it for socializing and having fun. However, in the LDS church, we deem it unethical to drink beer because of our belief in the Word of Wisdom. I often had that discrimination in the Philippines with my Catholic friends, laughing at the fact that I abstain from alcohol. But I realize from…
The term ‘ethical’, as I have come to apprehend it, is not just conforming to putative standards of conduct, but dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation. Thomas A. Schwandt, a professor at the University of Illinois, notes that “while we can live in a world without standards and guidelines, we cannot live in a world without ethics.” Although, standards and guidelines have become prominent and are important guides in today’s evaluation process, a greater emphasis is laid on high ethical standards. Evaluators are faced with challenging issues in which they are expected to act in ways that are consistent with the principles of the company and epitomize exemplary ethical behavior. In this paper I will analyze the issue confronting an evaluator in a case study and explain how it can be resolved using some recognized ethical principles.…
Under the direction of respective values, everyone shapes up different value orientations and seeks after what he thinks to be the most valuable. What is social values? There are so many different personal social values, everyone has own though, people from different countries have different ideas about it. For me, my core values are family, self worth, hard working and giving. The origin of these values is I want to become a people who can bring sunshine into others.…
I believe that moral values, being the difference between rights and wrongs are always traced back in ones religion and they always exist within ones self not in media. The conduct of human beings living in societies which include inward activities like motive and desire as well as outward activities like speech and movements of the doer’s limbs is judged to be right or wrong, to be good or bad by Personal ethics-the set of ones ethical commitments usually given early home or religious training and often modified by later reflections.…
If you have to give a speech on moral values you need to stress the importance of moral values in life and should not be underestimate them. Here are some arguments you can use in order to present this important subject to your audience.…