Eleven deaths and over one million gallons of oil spilling per day and BP tried to duck responsibility. This lack in corporate social responsibility impacted the stakeholders‚ and had a huge negative impact on BP. BP has a long history of legal and ethical violations. Over the past twenty years‚ BP subsidiaries have been convicted three times of environmental crimes in Alaska and Texas including two felonies. The company is still on probation for two of them. The company also received the largest
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Ethics of human cloning has become an outstanding issue in the past few years. Even though both sides agree that cloning technology is one of the greatest achievements‚ they still have a big gap in accepting its ethnicity. On one hand‚ a number of people have extremely appreciated human cloning because this might be the last chance or even the only way for them to preserve the priceless images from their lovers. On the other hand‚ many others have claimed that cloning human beings would seriously
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Security of Organizational Intranets in the Banking Section Version 1.0 * Introduction * Ethical Issues * Restricted access of information for employees in the organization’s intranet (From employee’s point of view‚ they may lose the faith in the organization‚ untrustworthy etc.) (From organization’s point of view‚ it is important to hide information such as personal sensitive information; confidential information due to some employees may gain advantages using such information)
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Issue in the Nursing Literature Keeping people alive and functioning physiologically via artificial means of technology leads to much discussion of the terms life and living. Beliefs are that biological functioning is being alive‚ no matter if the person is aware of one’s self or others. This leads to the question of what is quality of life (Burkhardt & Nathaniel‚ 2014). “Quality of life‚ a subjective appraisal of factors that make life worth living and contribute to a positive experience of living
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare AIU Online – HLTH320 Individual Project Unit 1 SCENERIO I am a paramedic arriving at an emergency scene. A group of scouts have entered a cave that is now filling with water. They were led into the cave by a rather large scoutmaster. Unfortunately‚ while leading them out of the cave‚ the scoutmaster somehow managed to get stuck in a narrow opening with only his head and shoulders protruding out. With his upper torso
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extraordinary growth in global electronic communications. However‚ to ensure the longer-term success of e-Business there have been calls for an adequate enabling framework to be put in place‚ particularly of a legislative nature. In past‚ technical issues were the main concerns of the e-Business companies. In present‚ many companies aim at creating the necessary commercial environment to stimulate the emergence of a global marketplace. The situation has changed yet again with the growth of the Internet
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HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE: ETHICAL ISSUES SURROUNDING THE “SACRIFICIAL LAMB” CASE. THE QUESTION When the father of an airline pilot dies of Huntington’s disease‚ the airline does a routine random blood/drug screening. They instruct the lab to also screen for HD without informing the pilot. Now they want to fire him. PROBLEM STATEMENT The Airline instruct the lab to screen pilot’s blood for Huntington’s Disease without informing the pilot. The Airline want to fire the pilot. ETHICAL ISSUES The privacy
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Ethical Issues in Procurement Management When people or business deal with contracting as a means of Procurement for their company‚ there may be issues regarding who the company will deal with. Procurement Management conducted correctly can be a valuable tool when combating this problem. The United States Government is a larger institution that relies on contractors to take care of many of the logistics necessary to keep our government running smoothly. Our government does not have the manpower
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gov.au). Ethics are applicable in an investigation because‚ as I stated before‚ if the force condoned unethical behaviors‚ there would be very little‚ if any‚ justice being served. We will now focus on three ethical issues and see how these issues can impact a case. The issues we will cover are planting evidence‚ falsifying testimony‚ and bribery. Planting evidence on a suspect is a very big problem. Some police officers do this to meet a quota‚ such as this happened in Atlanta and
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ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ABORTION Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy and the expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival [4]. This definition seems to be blunt and to the point‚ yet the subject of abortion is quite the complex one. There are many people who feel strongly about it and fall on either side of the issue. The problem is it is not as simple as right or wrong‚ black and white‚ good and bad. There is a massive gray area when you talk about life
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