Ethical Issues The issue of ethical behavior is one of the top challenges facing organizations today. A good definition of ethics includes the thought of doing what is morally acceptable or what is “good” and “right” as opposed to doing what is “bad” or “wrong” (Sims‚ 1992). But why are these issues a concern for organizations? What can they do to promote ethical behavior from their employees? Organizations should be concerned with ethical behavior for many reasons. Even though ethical decisions
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Employee Behavior From large corporations to small businesses‚ individuals involved in all types of business often face ethical issues stemming from employee behavior. For example‚ whether an employee can spend work time checking personal email accounts‚ how a manager deals with claims of harassment and to what extent a manager can "groom" a certain employee for a promotion are all examples of ethical issues regarding employee behavior. There are legal consequences for some unethical employee behavior
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Discuss and illustrate the classifications of ethical issues discussed in the text. According to the textbook‚ Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases‚ an ethical issue is “a problem‚ situation‚ or opportunity that requires an individual‚ group‚ or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong‚ ethical or unethical” (Ferrell 65). There are fifteen basic classifications of ethical issues in business that can be broken down into three categories
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role does duty play in ethics? Based on this‚ do you resonate more with the utilitarian‚ virtue ethics‚ Kantian‚ natural rights‚ or egoist theories? Provide an example if you choose to answer this question. While‚ I tend to agree more with the Kantian principle of categorical imperatives which tend to say that morals should come not out of desires or wants but out of duty as desires and wants are hypothetical Imperatives. Duty should be the deciding factor for what is ethical or not. I tend to agree
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According to Kant‚ everything that we can think of as desirable or good are not good in themselves‚ rather they qualify or are thought of as being good. Example of such things that are considered as good or desirable include intelligence‚ wit‚ temperament‚ wealth‚ and health etc. All these things are not good in themselves as they can also be used for bad purposes. These things only qualify as good when used to achieve a good outcome. Therefore‚ according to Kant‚ the only thing that can be thought
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Course Outline Faculty: Management and Social Science Course Number PHIL1014 Course Title: ETHICS Course instructor: Rev. William Leslie Credits: 3 Section: 1‚ 2‚ 3 & 4 Semester: 2013 -1 Class Meeting Times: Section 1: 8:00 – 9:15 a.m. - RLC Conf. Rm Section 2: 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. – RLC144 Section 3: 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. - RLC228 Section
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SUBDOMAIN 310.2 - ETHICS Competency 310.2.1: Ethical Issues in Business Company Q has recently closed two of their stores in areas that are considered high crime areas. This company was claiming they were losing money. Failing to listen to customer request for more natural and organic products has forced them to shop in areas outside of their community. Company Q also needs to work with the local food banks with donating day old products. With all of these situations at hand and with the question
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2. Ethical Issues in Business. It seems that every day in the news we are hearing of new company that has acted at least unethically and possibly illegally in the operation and financial reporting of their company’s business dealings. There are many ethical issues in business. One major issue that we see is over and under reporting net income. Companies like to show that every quarter the net income of the business has an increase or profit. In order to show this they adopt unethical or illegal
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different ways‚ but depending on an individual’s ethical code‚ they may or may not be considered good. The three major ethical theories which we addressed are Kantian Ethics‚ Utilitarianism‚ and Virtue Ethics. A strong argument could be made for each theory‚ but one sticks out as the best and most reasonable theory of ethics. Kantian Ethics is the best universal theory of ethics‚ as it allows for individual rights and is specific enough to follow. Kantian ethics stresses individual rights‚ reason‚ and motivation
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for their campouts by the gate. This policy has changed and will take affect in November of this year. Southwest is improving their way of the boarding rules for their customers. This has become an issue in the current news regarding this policy change. Exactly what seems to be the basis of the issue going on today? Southwest Airlines has adopted a positive culture that focuses on respect dignity and good service. It has identified good services as being most important. The customer and employees
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