Conflict in Ethical Decision Making at WorldCom Kerry Seeley Business Ethics MT4200 National American University September 25‚ 2007 Craig Chaplin Abstract This paper explains how WorldCom began and where it’s at now. It didn’t take long for WorldCom to become the second largest long distance phone company. WorldCom provided a legal framework for people working in communication projects on an individual basis‚ mainly in Central America‚ but they also developed projects together with partners
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TERM PAPER RESEARCH : Selling Human Organs ARTICLE 1 : Should people be allowed to sell their organs? Currently‚ exchanging organs for money or other "valuable considerations" is illegal‚ but some members of the medical and business communities would like to change that. One of those is the American Medical Association’s influential Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Convinced that the balance of moral and ethical concerns favors the ability to sell organs‚ they would like the laws to change
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Tobacco and the Economy: Farms‚ Jobs‚ and Communities‚ By H.Frederick Public health policies intended to reduce many forms of the bad effect of smoking-related illness which impact on a large number of businesses‚ workers‚ and cluster that related in tobacco industry. Recently‚increases in Federal and state tax‚limitation on smoking in public places‚increases in price arise from legal settlements‚and lower exports have impacted the tobacco industry.But most of affected are beyond the farm gate
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Small and large businesses today have an obligation to conduct their businesses ethically. If a business makes unethical decisions‚ it could mean the loss of jobs for the employees and or jail time for the leaders of that company. Whole Foods is no exception‚ in order to stay in business it has to make ethical decisions and do so with all stakeholder in mind. Kent Hodgson‚ a management consultant‚ has identified seven general moral principles that he calls “the magnificent seven” (Kreitner
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Truman’s decision to drop the bomb. My opinion is based on my belief that dropping the bomb was not a moral or ethical decision to make. To think from a moral standpoint‚ it is never right to endanger the lives of others. Thousands of people lost their lives once the bomb was thrown and there were many who had long-lasting effects. I think that there is always another way to handle things. However‚ when making a decision like this one has to think from a military standpoint. Truman’s decision to drop
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Deep Ecology and its Relation to the Third World This paper will begin with an exposition of the article‚ “Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique” written by Ramachendra Guha‚ a sociologist and historian involved in ecological conflict in the East and the West. In this article‚ he refers to American environmentalism as “deep ecology”‚ a modern theory founded by Arne Naess. Guha’s argues that based on a comparison of the concepts of deep ecology and other cultural
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Tobacco has remained to be the most used drug all over the world. People who consume tobacco have no idea of what goes into their body or what health problems they might have in the future. The most common health problem is cancer. Tobacco is an American plant which is a member of the nightshade family. Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana . It has remained an important
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What are the dangers of Tobacco? What are the dangers of smoking cigarettes? Well some dangers of smoking cigarettes are you can develop lung cancer or emphazima. With either of these life would be pretty bad‚ you wouldn’t be able to do very much with out getting tired or having to stop for a few minutes to catch you breath. Smoking can even make it hard to play sports. Because it can cause shortness of breathe‚ dizziness‚ and coughing. And if you use smokeless tobacco it can cause dehydration
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William Fitzhugh‚ an Englishman who migrated to the colony of Virginia in 1670‚ was quick to rise in the New World. Upon landing in the Americas‚ William acquired a large estate and began the construction of a dynasty. The Fitzhugh lineage has been called one of the first families of Virginia. While the virgin lands of America buried Spain in gold‚ and French in fur‚ the British were slow to get their new economy off the ground. After an Indian attack on the colony of Jamestown left the Virginia
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especially when placing a monetary value on a human life. It also questions what responsibilities Ford had to its customers and what moral rights were in operation‚ as well as whether it would have made a difference if Ford customers knew about the decision. Discussion Cost-Benefit Analysis‚ is a systematic process for calculating and comparing benefits and costs of a project for two purposes; firstly to determine if it is a sound investment (justification/feasibility and secondly‚ to see how it compares
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