Examples of Ethical Dilemmas Accounting: Your supervisor enters your office and asks you for a check for $150.00 for expenses he tells you he incurred entertaining a client last night. He submits receipts from a restaurant and lounge. At lunch your supervisor’s girlfriend stops by to pick him up for lunch and you overhear her telling the receptionist what a great time she had at dinner and dancing with your supervisor the night before. What do you do? Bank Teller: You have worked as a bank teller
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Case Study M‚ a 24-years-old pregnant woman who is been in a tragic car accident‚ with no previous history of chronic medical illnesses she presented to the emergency department unconscious. she suffered from intracranial hemorrhage which led to irreversible loss of all her brain and brainstem function. After performing a clinical examination to test her brainstem reflexes and apnoea‚ her neurologist declared her brain-dead after showing the three neurological criteria which are coma‚ apneoa and
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Moral Dilemma What people feel morally obligated to do depends on the situation. In general‚ I think everyone can agree that it is immoral to take someone’s life‚ but there are situations where people might think otherwise. There are also other less severe circumstances where people’s morals are put in question. In the end‚ it depends on one’s personal moral beliefs on how they would act when in certain instances. The first dilemma I chose was the fat man and the impending doom. Without a
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not have to follow. Which would make these companies a good corporate citizen. 3. Large drug companies are not guilty of price gorging or charging unfair or exploitative prices to their products (contrary of the message that the author of the case study would like us to believe). The reason relates back to my response to question number one. With the necessary regulations provided to protect consumers by the FDA – the R&D cost and the short life span of a patent is the cause that these
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If he spoke the truth‚ he would be condemned‚ which meant an end to his freedom. I have been in this situation before‚ on the horns of a dilemma‚ not knowing to do what was good for me or to help a friend. It happened in a one-period test. Since I and a girl sitting next to me had not studied it over‚ we decided to cheat by putting the book in her desk case. The test went on well until I ran up against a question that I didn’t know .I ask her for help‚ she opened the book on the page containing
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Assumptions. We build pro-forma statement mostly based on the assumptions given in the case. Other assumptions are following. At first‚ we assume that the tax rate is an average of tax rates for the past three years which is 20.1%. We use this tax rate to calculate the provision for income taxes for following years. Next assumption is that we take Mr. Dadge’s approximation for the initial rate as the interest rate‚ 11%. Since Mr. Clarkson finished payment to Mr. Holtz in 1995‚ we assume that only
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Lupus and couldn’t hold it any longer. I recanted my decision for fear that she would urinate on the floor and let her go. The female left but was still upset. I informed my officers to write an incident report documenting what transpired. The next day my manager called me in and stated that our client received an email from the female complaining about how she was treated by the security staff and that if restitution of some kind isn’t made (wanted my officers and myself fired) that she would go
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Productivity dilemma Productivity dilemma Abernathy’s productivity dilemma describes businesses trade off between two strategic goals: efficiency and innovation. Efficiency is a result of exploitation‚ there utilizes existing knowledge and capabilities‚ resulting in stable and efficient performance. Innovation or adaptability is a result of exploration‚ which creates new knowledge‚ enabling organizations to innovate‚ and adapt to changing conditions. Paul s. Adler highlights that Abernathy sees
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A Student’s Dilemma To cheat‚ or not to cheat‚ this is the question that Helen Kanell must answer. Helen has been a great student throughout her college career maintaining a 4.0 grade point average. However‚ nearing the end of college‚ Helen’s grades have slipped due to added responsibilities by Beta Alpha Psi‚ the accounting student honor society‚ to which she is the president. Helen’s best friend notices that she is struggling and wants to help her out‚ so she steals a copy of the final exam
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Ethical Dilemmas 1 Ethical Dilemmas Larry Carter COM 425 May 31‚ 2010 Ethical Dilemmas 2 Ethical Dilemmas In today’s world employees face many different challenges in the workplace‚ challenges which not only bring on difficult choices‚ but could also bring about unwanted change. One of these challenges is Ethical Dilemmas. When an ethical dilemma arises in the workplace an employee is faced with what to do. How do they
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