Can Ethics be Taught With more people educated with higher degrees now more than ever‚ why are scandals relating to unethical behavior on the rise? It seems like every time I read the newspaper there is another scandal relating to some high-level executive involved in unethical behavior. We must ask ourselves if organizations follow any type of ethical principles or guidelines. It is common practice for organizations to gain success regardless of hurting others to increase the bottom line. We
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Social Science Vol. 2 No. 12; July 2011 Can Ethics Be Taught? Thomas G. Ryan‚ Ed.D. Associate Professor Nipissing University (Graduate Studies) Faculty of Education Ontario‚ Canada E-mail: thomasr@nipissingu.ca Jeremy Bisson‚ M.Ed. Assistant Professor Nipissing University Ontario‚ Canada Abstract For many years educational programs have dealt with ethics. However‚ can ethics be taught? Secondly‚ how should it be taught? The notion that ethics is a process of communication that gives
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What are ethics? Ethics are the set beliefs and values of an individual which they apply to circumstances relating to morality. To act in an ‘ethical’ manner‚ an individual must display integrity by doing what they believe to be right. When working within any professional body‚ an individual will be subjected to circumstances in which personal ethics will come into play. The Accounting profession is no different as ethical questions arise as part of any working day and can effect how an individual
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Can business ethics be taught? Business Ethics can be defined as the study and evaluation of decision making by businesses according to moral concepts and judgments. Ethical issues range from a company’s obligation to be honest with its customers to a company’s responsibility to preserve the environment and protect employee rights. Ethics includes the need to produce a reasonable profit for the company’s shareholders with honesty in business practices‚ safety in the workplace‚ and larger environmental
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GROUP 3 PRESENTATION Question 3 • Can we teach entrepreneurship and bring some entrepreneurial awareness and changes among individuals. Give evidence Approach in answering the Question • Definition of Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurship education • Approaches to teach entrepreneurship • Conclusion The concept of entrepreneurship There is no universal agreed definition of entrepreneurship. However‚ Entrepreneurship is defined differently by different scholars. Schumpeter (1934) defines
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Can virtue be taught? This is the main question discussed and argued over by Plato in the Protagoras and in the last section of the Meno. In these readings Plato gives different arguments that favor both sides positively and negatively. In the evidence I found in analyzing the Protagoras and the end of the Meno one thing was clear. The answer to this question according to the arguments seen in the readings tended to lean towards the negative. By negative I mean that Plato seems to believe that virtue
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Ethics in an organization is very essential whether it is in the area of finance‚ marketing‚ customer service or accounting. According to Wikipedia‚ ethics can be define as “a major branch of philosophy in the study of values and customs of a person or group. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong‚ good and evil‚ and responsibility”. Ethics can be divided in three areas‚ the meta-ethics (the study of the concept of ethics)‚ the normative ethics (the study
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Can culture be caught or taught A culture of an organization includes the norms‚ feelings‚ beliefs‚ attitudes‚ collective experiences‚ history‚ assumptions and values of an organization. Culture is something a new executive senses even before his first day on the job. That is‚ new employees are told ‘how things are around here’ by their colleagues and their team-leaders. "Caught and not taught" means you learn values or behaviors from the people that practice them‚ instead of by being told.
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Can virtue be taught? Or is it something that we have innately? “At the right times‚ about the right things‚ towards the right people‚ for the right end‚ and in the right way‚ is the intermediate and best condition‚ and this is proper to virtue." This is a quote from Socrates defining virtue. “This is not simply splitting the difference between two extremes. For example‚ generosity is a virtue between the two extremes of miserliness and being profligate. Further examples include: courage between
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virtue can be taught may be answered through philosophical means‚ much like those illustrated by Socrates in Plato: Meno. Because virtue‚ in our minds‚ is something that benefits the soul‚ and knowledge is that which leads its beholder toward positive outcomes‚ we can draw the conclusion that virtue is knowledge. If virtue can in fact be classified as knowledge‚ and all knowledge can be taught‚ then we must conclude that virtue can in turn be taught. However‚ in saying that virtue can be taught
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