Running Header: Ethical Decision Making Ethical Decision Making Beverly Tate Management – MGT521 University of Phoenix September 24‚ 2011 Instructor: Fernando Casafranca Ethical Decision Making Wal-Mart is known for its ethical standard as far as their customer service‚ employees and management expectations are concerned. Wal-Mart’s values and integrity are an intricate part of what is conveyed in their "Statement of Ethics. It has been determined according to Understanding
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CARE ETHICS (The Ethics of Care) A Presentation of the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership and Ethical Awareness for International Collaboration‚ Brown University‚ 2012 Introduction • Care ethics [The ethics of care] originated among feminists who maintained‚ on the basis of Carol Gilligan’s work‚ A Different Voice ‚ that women and girls approach moral issues with a strong concern for empathy and caring in interpersonal relationships. Care and Virtues • Care ethics focuses on virtues
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Moral Relativism: An Evaluation The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place‚ culturally speaking. The modern world has more bridges to other cultures and ways of thinking than ever before. This phenomenon is due largely to the advent of the internet‚ global industry‚ and increased travel for business and pleasure to opposite corners of the world. This “global village” we live in introduces the average person to more cultural‚ and seemingly moral‚ differences than previous generations
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Culture and Moral Development Another criticism of Kohlberg’s view is that it is culturally based. A review of research on moral development in 27 countries concluded that moral reasoning is more culture-specific than Kohlberg envisioned and that Kohlberg’s scoring system does not recognize higher-level moral reasoning in certain cultural groups (Snarey‚ 1987). Examples of higher-level moral reasoning that would not be scored as such by Kohlberg’s system include values related to communal
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Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli on Government and Those Who Govern Machiavelli‚ in “The Prince” and Lao-Tzu in “”Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching” have very opposing views. In their writings‚ they differ on topics such as qualities of a leader‚ functions of government‚ and human nature and the world around them. Here I will describe each of their views and compare the differences. Both Machiavelli and Lao-Tzu are philosophers writing in regard to Government‚ giving advice in ways that they feel people should
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Ethical Decisions in Accounting Alfonso Oddo Niagara University COPYRIGHT PAGE DO NOT TYPE Cover page image ©2010 PhotoDisc/Getty Images Copyright © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ scanning or otherwise‚ except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act
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Moral universalism Moral universalism also called as moral objectivism which can be defined as the position in meta-ethics that some moral values can be applied universally to everyone which is also known as universal morality. Besides‚ moral universalism also can be defined as the system of ethics‚ or a universal ethic that applies to all people regardless of their personal opinion or the majority opinion of their cultures. Furthermore‚ moral universalism also holds the moral values that apply
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3) Critically assess the claim that people are free to make moral decisions (35) Libertarians support the view that people have free will and so we are free to make moral decisions. For a Libertarian‚ the key evidence for this is the act of decision making in our daily lives. Hume states that “experience is what we see to be true”‚ each human being experiences the feeling of being free to make a decision. If experiencing any other action constitutes it to be true‚ then why not the same for free
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Table of Contents Acknowledgement 2 Introduction 3 3-1 Assess the role of the company acting as moral agent 4 3-2 Analyze the development of mechanisms for achieving employee involvement and empowerment 4 4-1 Research a current ethical issue affecting a selected business 6 4-2 Report on how the business could improve the ethics of their operations whilst meeting objectives and ensuring good employer / employee relationship 6 4-3 Design a suitable ethical code 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Acknowledgement
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1. ETHICS‚ VALUES‚ AND ATTITUDES Ethics is a set of beliefs about right and wrong behaviour. Ethical behaviour conforms to generally accept social norms. Ethics is a philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it. A social‚ religious‚ or civil code of behaviour considered correct‚ esp. that of a particular group‚ profession‚ or individual. Under this is: * A virtue is a Habit that inclines people to do what is acceptable.
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