head: Perceptions & Ethical Decisions in Today’s Business World Perceptions and Ethical Decisions in Today’s Business World The Good‚ the Bad and the Ugly James R. Perrin National American University . Abstract No matter how great the products or services are‚ customers will not beat down the door in numbers needed to stay in business if their view of the business is not positive. Sometimes‚ it only takes unsubstantiated negative publicity‚ or poor ethical choices to make a business
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Ethical Decision Making Paper What are ethics and how do they affect decision-making? According to the Santa Clara University‚ "[ ] [E]thics refers to well based standards of right and wrong [ ]." Ethics are not the same as religion‚ but "Religion can set high ethical standards and can provide intense motivations for ethical behavior" (Santa Clara University). What about the law? There can be a law in place‚ but that does not necessarily mean that the law is ethical. An example could be that San
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Ethical Decisions Ethical Decision The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a salesman‚ Joe Smith‚ uses the common good approach to make an ethical decision in making a possible uniform sale between UWEAR and Peninsula Hotels‚ Bill Batesman‚ CEO. Joe Smith has been reprimanded the year before when he signed the contract with Peninsula Hotels because the price he offered was so low. He has to bid so low because his competitor THREADS4U was a very shrewd bidder
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Our ethical decisions are a result of social conditioning. Discuss. (35marks) Clarence Darrow could be said to be the most famous person who supported the idea of social conditioning. He argued that human beings cannot be held responsible for their actions because nurture has brought them up a certain way. In his case where he legally represented Leob and Leopold‚ he argued that morality can’t exist if humans are responsible for their actions‚ because no-one can be held morally responsible for anything;
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would have not occurred so soon if it had not been for President Harry Truman’s decision to use the first ever nuclear attack on another nation. His decision changed history and the way the world worked. This meant that nuclear power was out there at the disposal of the United States for them to use whenever they saw fit. The decision Truman had to make was extremely difficult seeing as he was faced with a huge ethical dilemma whether to kill entire cities to save millions of American lives. The issue
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The relationship between St. Jude’s culture and ethical decision-making is that they coincide with each other. Their ethical decisions made are based on the culture of the organization. Their culture involves charitable giving and helping children fight diseases. All ethical decisions will be based on the outcome and if they will help those children whose lives are affected by specific diseases. St. Jude’s mission is to “advance cures and means of prevention‚ for pediatric catastrophic diseases through
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absence of ethics in societal decision making contribute to the successes and shortfalls we experience every day. My personal ethical lens inventory reflected the many characteristics I as an individual contribute to society. This document will discuss certain characteristics such as my preferred ethical lens‚ my blind spot‚ my strengths and weaknesses‚ and my values and resultant behavior. * Through the Ethical Lens Inventory I learned that my personal preferred ethical lens is the Results and Reputation
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Introduction Page 3 Risk Scenario Related to Patient Care and Safety Page 5 Risk Scenario Related to the Physical Plant Page 9 Risk Scenario Related to Staffing Page 13 Best Practices in 4 Hospitals Page 15 Tenet Healthcare Page 16 Cleveland Clinic Stroke Improvement Plan Page 17 Conclusion Page 18 References Page 19 Introduction The issue of risk scenario carries immense importance for most
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the good and bad determined by a person. Business implementation of this action may be beneficial‚ but when an ethical issue is involved‚ consequences of making such decision may be alarming. There are many types of ethical analysis utilized when making a decision‚ but utilitarianism is unique in its particular way. Utilitarianism‚ a theoretical approach to ethics‚ calculates any decision as accurate if the result benefit the majority of the people. The utilization of this system in businesses is
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Communication Scenarios MGT/521 Communication Scenarios I am writing to describe how I would personally respond to three different scenarios that deal with communication. I will explain how I would handle each situation as each scenario is different. Scenario 1 In scenario 1‚ a situation is described where communication needs to be addressed to get some important details to big group of a marketing team in order to make a plan for a new advertisement campaign. I would choose to have a face-to-face
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