this paper is to highlight the concept of affirmative action in the workplace‚ and explain why one person of gender or race would be hired over another more qualified for the position just to fulfill hiring requirements‚ while using Kantian and Utilitarian ethical theories to justify each side of the issue. Affirmative action policies can be described as any policies that attempt to actively dismantle institutionalized or informal cultural norms and systems of inscriptive group-based disadvantages
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GLOBAL REASONING TEST PRACTICE TEST © COPYRIGHT 2008 PROCTER & GAMBLE CINCINNATI‚ OH 45202 U.S.A. WARNING: All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced in any form or by any means without expressed written permission. 2 PRACTICE TEST OVERVIEW PURPOSE This practice test is provided to help you understand the rules for answering the Reasoning Test by giving you: • • • • The exact instructions that you will receive when taking the actual Reasoning Test Suggestions and strategies
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INTRODUCTION Bank of America‚ one of the top financial institutions in the United States of America and Wikileaks‚ described by many as the probably the biggest whistleblower in recent history are in for a colossal battle. Bank of America is on the defensive end as to whether one of its executives lost a hard drive containing information that if and when released could cause the bank to crumble to the ground. On the other hand‚ Wikileaks allegedly has this hard drive in its possession and has
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Individual Influence of Moral Reasoning I am interested in the actions of star witness Mike McQueary. I am not going to focus on the abuse I am focusing on the morality of the decisions Mike McQueary made when he saw the abuse. It is his actions that drive me to answer the Individual Influence of Moral Reasoning. Mike McQueary reported to administration that Jerry Sandusky engaged in a sexual act with a student in 2001. What I am interested in about his actions is that when they were not appropriately
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In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography Franklin speaks of human reasoning‚ explaining how he himself reasoned his way to eating fish without eating animal food. Although Franklin does oppose his agreement of not eating animal food‚ he argues how humans are these “reasonable creatures” that can come up with a good reason for them to do what they want. A reason is like an excuse that can be used to get what you want. Franklin argues that humans are “reasonable creatures” that are enable to create
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Professor Michael Sandel discussed both “consequentialist moral reasoning” and “categorical moral reasoning” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). Sandel states that “categorical moral reasoning” is when you “locate morality in certain duties and rights” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). And “consequentialist moral reasoning” is when you “locate morality from consequences of your actions” (Harvard University‚ n.d.). Basically‚ “categorical moral reasoning” focuses on the “consequences”‚ after “action” is taken‚ before
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland deals with a theme of madness and reasoning. Throughout the book Alice‚ the main character‚ is trying to be logical‚ as she solves the problems she encounters in Wonderland. One of the most notable and obvious examples of this is her struggle with the question‚ “who in the world am I” (Carroll‚ 18). She breaks down the problem into simple true statements‚ such as “I think I remember feeling different”‚ before allowing these facts to lead to their eventual conclusion
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Cultural considerations in moral and ethical reasoning The sound development of moral reasoning and ethics is an integral part of the growth and maturation of a healthy and productive human being. Without morals and ethics‚ a person cannot exist within society’s boundaries and would be doomed to be forever barred from its hallowed walls for as long as that person did not conform to the societal norms of having the ability to morally reason and implement a set of ethics. But morals and ethics
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Causal reasoning in financial reporting and voluntary disclosure This paper examines causal reasoning‚ applying the theories to financial reporting. Causal reasoning involves diagnosis (determining the cause of an effect) and prediction (vice versa). These are important and commonplace amongst analysts‚ investors and management regarding company earnings and share prices. However‚ there is very little recent research employing causal reasoning theories to this field. Attribution theory describes
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CASE BASED REASONING FOR CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM INTRODUCTION The Car Classify System is an intelligence system which applying Case Based Reasoning approach. This system was developing to classify the car class whether they are unacc‚ acc‚ good or very good (vgood). This system classified the car by calculate the similarities with the new data with the history data in the data base. The new data is data that key in by the user. The history data is the old data that get from the UCI Machine Learning
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