Advances In Management ;; Vol. 5 (3) Mar. (2012) Aspects of International Business Ethics Mahoney James F. Managing Director‚ The Paragon Group. Managing Director‚ 2476 N Beechwood Ave‚ Rialto‚ California‚ USA theparagongroup@roadrunner.com Abstract This paper is an analytical examination of the ethical problems posed by the practice of international business in light of key ethical philosophies and considering the diversity existing in our world. Special attention is give to the SA 8000
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Population Growth You and me‚ we aren’t that different. But when we compare ourselves to the 6.2 billion people in this world or even the 287.4 million in the United States‚ we start to become really different. Take all of the high-rises and stack them up and I bet we could go to the moon. Now you tell me that is not over-population. This world is growing with people everyday and it doesn’t stop. Because of the population and its growth our resources are becoming limited. Our garbage
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people have different point of views. Some people are utilitarian‚ some are Kantian Deontologist‚ and some are Virtuous people. From my perspective‚ I am the kind of person who cannot decide which one best describes my thinking. Sometimes I could feel that I am a utilitarian‚ and sometime I can be all of them. Therefore‚ being utilitarian means that good or bad depends on the result of the action. On the one hand‚ being Kantian Deontologist means that good or bad is in the action‚ and a virtuous person
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objective of 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
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What Is Ethics? Ethics is the part of philosophy that deals with good and evil. Ethics tries to answer questions like: • What actions are good? What actions are evil? • How can we tell the difference? • Are good and evil the same for everyone? • How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? The Four main studies of ethics are; • Meta-ethics‚ about the theoretical meaning of moral propositions and ethical opinions; • Normative ethics‚ an abstract set of principles
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SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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Chapter 1‚ Introducing Business Ethichs What is business ethics? Business Ethics (BE) has been called an oxymoron. By an oxymoron‚ we mean the bringing together of two apparently contradictory concepts. The statement also suggests that there are not‚ or cannot be‚ ethics in business. However‚ there appears to be good reason to suggest that business ethics as a phenomenon‚ and as a subject‚ is not an oxymoron. Whilst there will be disagreements about what exactly constitutes “ethical” business
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ethical issue this report will analyse will be "Is it morally acceptable for models in the workplace to be exploited?". The business ethics area this issue falls under is ethical issues in the workplace‚ which include for example discrimination‚ invasion of privacy but the main concentration in this report will be put on workplace harassment. Act Utilitarianism and Kantian ethical theories will be applied to this report and will be used to conclude if this issue is morally permissible. AnalysisAccording
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1. Describe the need for ethical theories. (3) Ans. Ethical theories represent the grand ideas on which guiding principles are based. They attempt to be coherent and systematic‚ striving to answer the fundamental practical ethical questions: 1.What ought I do? 2. How ought I to live? Ethical theories are needed for a number of purposes. They are the foundations of ethical analysis because they are the viewpoints from which guidance can be obtained along the pathway to a decision. The aim of ethical
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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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