Ethical Dilemma Essay Dan Brown ETH/316 August 5‚ 2013 Becky Mott Ethical Dilemma Essay In the first ethical dilemma‚ I am presented with an employee who is blogging anonymously about products our company makes. I am also presented with information from another employee who illegally hacks into the anonymous employees home computer to get proof that this individual was the anonymous blogger. In the second ethical dilemma‚ a disgruntled former employee broke into the development labs
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My personal ethical lens is rights and responsibilities and relationship lens. This indicates that I use my reasoning skills to determine both the universal rules that each person should follow and the processes that will assure fairness and justice for all in the community. My strength is to know what to do and do it. Once it is said that I will do something or care for someone‚ that is what I do. Loyalty and consistency is valued. My weakness is the risk of being an autocratic. An autocratic is
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Ethical egoism Explanation of the theory This moral theory states that everyone should act in their own self-interest. Even though we can act in the interests of others‚ we should always act only in our own interests. Ethical egoist may help their friends if they believe there is a long-term payoff or benefit doing so. One’s self-interest is often best followed by allowing others to pursue their self-interest as well. Sacrificing one’s short-term self-interest in order to maximize one’s long-term
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WorldCom was a pre-eminent telecommunications company that dealt with the same ethical issues that many companies deal with today. Ethics is something that comes into play in every businesses day to day operations. A decision is it ethical or not‚ is something that every employee makes in today’s business environment. Ethics is a topic that needs to be talked about and reinforced on a reoccurring basis so that unethical events like what happened in WorldCom‚ do not happen. There were many unethical
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dependent on an individual’s choice or beliefs or religion and can mean doing the right or wrong thing. An example to help you understand the difference would be: Abortion is legal and therefore medically ethical‚ while many people find it personally immoral. Ethics can be relatively simple to follow‚ while applying morals can be decidedly tougher. There can be a moral dilemma‚ but not an ethical one. While good morals represent correct and upright conduct‚ ethics act more as guidelines. Ethics are
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Introduction: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is always an on-going issue that companies have to cope with. What are the responsibilities that companies should take other than the maximization of return to shareholders and by taking such responsibilities‚ how it may affect the operation of the firms as well as how effectively such actions could have on the society. There have been two main positions on the CSR issue. The first is the Friedmanian one stating that “there is one and only one
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Ethical Perspective Ethical perspectives and styles vary among individuals. All types of ethical decisions‚ personal and business‚ are based on individual ethical perspectives and styles. The four prominent categories of ethical philosophy consist of character/virtue‚ obligation/deontology‚ results/utilitarianism‚ and equity/relativism. These ethical perspectives‚ when assessed correctly‚ can provide insight into general views and approaches used in making personal and business decisions. Character
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Essay I Ethical Theory Thesis: To begin‚ I believe that it would be permissible to shove the fat man off the railing to save the lives of five individuals that would have otherwise been struck by the trolley. I will use John Stuart Mill’s teleological theory of Act Utilitarianism to prove my case. I will also explain why I disagree with Kant’s Formula of Humanity. Background: The theory that we are focusing on for this particular case is called the normative theory of ethics. This theory asks what
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Ethical Consumerism What is ethical consumerism? Ethical consumerism is the purchasing of products and services produced in a way that minimizes social and environmental damage while avoiding products and services having a negative impact on society or the environment (http://www.scribd.com/doc/19589310/Contract-Law). Ethically made products are those that are produced with the least harm to the environment‚ animals‚ and humans. There are four types of ethical buying. The first one is positive
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available cash resources to the modernization of facilities in order to better compete in the 21st century.” Is a 5% stock dividend equivalent to a $1.00 per share cash dividend when shares are trading at $20 per share? Is the chair’s suggestion ethical? In this case‚ we see the problem is whether we choose cash dividend or stock dividend. But before we made our decision we must have to understand that neither cash nor stock dividend changes the shareholder’s net worth in the company (table)
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