Ethics in Business BUS670: Legal Environment Instructor: Leah Westerman November 25‚ 2013 Introduction Ethics means different things to different people‚ but basically it is all about being wrong and right. In business making ethical decisions should always be considered first‚ as well as the law. Culture is important within any company. It involves your perception of attitudes‚ values‚ and standards of conduct within a business. Ethical situations arise every day in business
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BSB111 – Business Law and Ethics Semester 1 2010 ETHICS CASE STUDY QBank offered Jen a substantial amount of money for the premises of her florist shop. However‚ this will all come at the cost of her two employees Diane and Helen losing their jobs in the shop. Therefore‚ it seems Jen faces an ethical dilemma‚ particularly because she promised her employees that she would keep them on. By looking at key relevant ethical theories a decision can be made that best suits Jens situation. Egoism
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Melanie Williams HCS/405 November 20‚ 2012 Mark Williams Reporting Practices and Ethics Financial practices and ethics can play an important part of any organization including the health care environment. In order for the health care organization to be successful one must adopt an efficient financial practice and possess ethical standards. The management of finances for a health care
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role of emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? To what extent does emotions help or hinder our acquisition of knowledge? What impact does emotion have on our gathering of knowledge and on the knowledge we gather? Key Terms to be Defined and Discussed The key idea of the question is to examine what role emotions play in the pursuit of knowledge. •Emotions as an obstacle to knowledge •Emotions as a source of knowledge •You can also examine the role of intuition in the pursuit of knowledge
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Summary Case : “Ethics : A Basic Framework” Business ethics are basic moral principles that guide both people and companies behaviour in business world. Ethics in business are important because it has important implication for company’s function as an organization‚ ability to manage risk‚ and company reputation in marketplace. Ethcis become important in make company reputation because market participants are often make ethcial judgement about the company and some will even be rewarded or punished
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to protect the company from a law suit I thought it was best to let him go as well. It was more important for me to think of what would be best for the company as a whole using Utilitarian ethics which focuses on the greater good for the greatest number of people in the company as well as Consequentialist Ethics which focuses on the consequences of a decision or action. I had to think about how other employee’s would react if this situation was taken lightly‚ as
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Utilitarianism‚ Kantian Ethics‚ Natural Rights Theories‚ and Religious Ethics A “utilitarian” argument‚ in the strict sense‚ is one what alleges that we ought to do something because it will produce more total happiness than doing anything else would. Act utilitarianism (AU) is the moral theory that holds that the morally right action‚ the act that we have a moral duty to do‚ is the one that will (probably) maximize “utility” (happiness‚ welfare‚ well-being). AU is not to be confused with egoism
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Reason why people give up on ethics Self-interest sometimes morphs into greed and selfishness‚ which is unchecked self-interest at the expense of someone else. This greed becomes a kind of accumulation fever. “If you accumulate for the sake of accumulation‚ accumulation becomes the end‚ and if accumulation is the end‚ there’s no place to stop‚” he said. The focus shifts from the long-term to the short-term‚ with a big emphasis on profit maximization. For example‚ swaps (where two communication
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a. Strengths of the analysis include the idea that talking about ethical issues is important‚and that the analysis suggests avenues for improving ethics education. The weaknesses primarily cited by students included the “idealistic” nature of the discussion. Onecommon theme emerged‚ which is that frauds and unethical behavior occurred long before formal business school education. Students often cited this fact as anunaddressed weakness in Professor Waddock’s analysis. b. The average level of moral
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Sommers suggested the teachers to teach their students individual virtues as they are further away from their morality. Striking changes have taken place from the more directive teaching of right and wrong‚ by study and example‚ to situation ethics‚ dilemma ethics and other approaches that rationally dissect moral acts. The set of approaches imply that there are no moral absolutes to uphold. Sommers feels that if students are taught that way they can lose a sense of moral direction and not take
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