determine what is “foreseeable” or “reasonable” • Ethics‚ Law‚ and CSR o Ethics: study of right and wrong behavior o Business ethics: study of right and wrong behavior in the business world o Moral minimum: the minimum acceptable standard for ethical business behavior‚ normally considered compliance with the law o Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): the idea that corporations should be accountable to society for their actions • 3 Approaches to Ethics o Duty-based: What are the relevant rules?
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Case Scenarios Read the following scenarios. Answer‚ in a 50- to 100-word response‚ each of the following questions: Scenario 1 Sophia has been removed from her family and placed into foster care for the second time in the last 2 years due to her mother’s ongoing substance abuse. Sophia has missed many days of school and often comes to school dirty and wearing clothes from the day before. Sophia’s mother does not think she has a problem and blames the system for once again taking her daughter
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Running head: THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Thomas Shaw Grand Canyon University PHL 305 7/25/2010 Introduction The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was developed to study the affects of Syphilis on adult black males. The intention of the study was to find ways to improve the quality of health in African Americans in the southern states. While the treatment phase of the program was beginning‚ America fell into the great depression and the benefactor‚ The Julius Rosenwald
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In the case of silicone breast implants safety studies should have been well designed prior to or during product development. There have been several studies and discussions associating silicone breast implants with connective tissue diseases (Wong 1995‚ p. 74-75) and silicone leakage with breast cancer (Winer et al 1993‚ p. 1407). DCC also reported rupturing silicone envelopes prompting second operation to remove or replace the implant but to perform further investigations. The case reports’
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On 11/3/2015 S/S EMT Salamy requested S/O EMT Perez up at VP-106. S/O EMT Perez had treated the resident earlier and the resident‚ a Mrs. Miriam Donovan had been discharged by Laurel Hospital and was confused and agitated upon arrival back to her apartment. SO EMT Perez arrived at the apartment and was told by S/S EMT Salamy that the son‚ a Mr. John Donovan was on his way to the apartment with an ETA of about an hour. Mrs. Donovan was confused on why she could not be with her husband in Arbor Ridge
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Deviance in today’s society can be seen as an act or attitude that is normal‚ unavoidable and relies on societal reactions. After listening to the story narrated by Juan Ochoa about his childhood experience in Mexico with his family‚ one can conclude that the discussed deviance is social‚ regarding the ongoing issues in the surroundings. This is because Mexico experienced a period of lawlessness‚ which gave room for a prevalent deviant behavior. Deviance act can extend to a criminal level. The narrator
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Business Ethics Case: Paula‚ a recent college graduate‚ is a newly hired manager in the Production Department of a company. She is the first woman selected for this production training position. Paula takes her work very seriously. She has been with the organization for three months. For the first two months‚ she performed her duties very well‚ but during the last month‚ Steve‚ her boss‚ has noticed a change in Paula. She seems more tense and uneasy and is not concentrating on her work as conscientiously
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BUSINESS ETHICS TUTORIAL EMERGING BUSINESS ETHICS ISSUES Case Study: Joseph’s Ethical Dilemma. Joseph Freberg had been with Alcon for 18 months. He had begun his career right out of college with a firm in the Southeast called Cala Industrial‚ which specialized in air compressors. Because of his work with Cala‚ he had been lured away to Alcon‚ in Omaha‚ as a sales manager. Joseph’s first six months had been hard. Working with older salespeople‚ trying to get a handle on his people’s sales territories
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Discuss the ethics of Milgram’s obedience study. In the years 1961-1962‚ Stanley Milgram - Yale University psychologist‚ conducted the first of the obedience experiments‚ which were also called "shock" studies. The research was invented to check if the people would be ready to harm somebody just to meet the requirements of the experiment. This essay will be focused on the ethical side of the study. Firstly‚ it will be presented how the experiment was performed‚ by describing all of the necessary
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business ethics field of study has evolved through five distinct stages. These stages are before 1960‚ the 1960s‚ the 1970s‚ the 1980s‚ and the 1990s. It also continues to evolve in the twenty-first century. With each stage come new changes. In the last 30 years the ethics field of study‚ starting from the 1980s‚ has shown multiple changes. In 1980 business ethics was acknowledged as a field of study. A group of institutions with diverse interests promoted its study causing business ethics organizations
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