19/11/2012 16:00 MEHDI SAFAVI CMSE11136 Case Study: Generation Investment Management The ABB India Investment Decision The Dilemma “So if Generation invests in ABB India‚ we’re providing capital for a company that builds up the infrastructure for more coal fired energy generation. This means we’ll be co-accountable for more CO2 emissions‚ the main cause for global warming!” Generation Investment Management (‘Generation’) mission and values are to deliver first-class investment performance using
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Assignment 1: MORAL REASONING Short Essay: Moral reasoning is individual or collective practical reasoning about what‚ morally‚ one ought to do. For present purpose‚ we may understand issues about what is right or wrong‚ virtuous or vicious‚ as raising moral question. When we are faced with moral questions in daily life‚ just as when we are faced with child-rearing questions‚ sometimes we act impulsively or instinctively and sometimes we pause to reason about what we ought to do. Much of our reasoning
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Generation-X What is Generation-X .the post-baby-boomer’ generation. Generation-X is the word that stands for the children of the baby boomer generation in America. It has been coined as such because of the diversity and lack of homogeneity of this population‚ which stands in sharp contrast with the baby- boomer generation. X stands for the unknown‚ unpredictable variable. .the 52 million Americans born between 1965 and 1981. Technically‚ Generation X is classified as
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our moral compass is pushed to the backburner while our ego leads the way. Another reason why our moral compass is hidden in our society‚ is because we care far too much about what others think. Before most girls leave the house in the mornings‚ they spend hours doing their hair‚ perfecting their makeup and finding the outfit that will impress all the boys‚ and make the girls jealous. When teens today are faced with a situtuation such as drinking at a party‚ instead of allowing their moral compass
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Development of Moral Reasoning‚ Attitudes & Beliefs ( Kohlberg‚ Turiel‚ Gilligan) Lawrence Kohlberg • He established the Moral Judgement Interview in his original 1958 dissertation‚ the interviewer uses moral dilemmas to determine which stage of moral reasoning a person uses. • The dilemmas are fictional short stories that describe situations in which a person has to make a moral decision. • Kohlberg experimented on this theory by interviewing boys aged 10 to 16. They were presented moral dilemmas
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Moral panic A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.[1] The term first appears in the English language in The Quarterly Christian Spectator‚ a publication from 1830: ‘Do they not speak as men do on other subjects‚ when they express activity? And is it not the natural language of these expressions that the mind is as far as possible from stagnation‚ or torpor‚ or "moral panic?" ’[2] It was used again in the following
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Moral universalism Moral universalism also called as moral objectivism which can be defined as the position in meta-ethics that some moral values can be applied universally to everyone which is also known as universal morality. Besides‚ moral universalism also can be defined as the system of ethics‚ or a universal ethic that applies to all people regardless of their personal opinion or the majority opinion of their cultures. Furthermore‚ moral universalism also holds the moral values that apply
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Moral Judgements Jakob Bronowski’s book‚ "Science and Human Values" argues that the scientific method of inquiry into reality provides a generally applicable foundation for moral judgement. Bronowski says‚ "in order to keep the study in a manageable field. I will continue to choose a society in which the principle of truth rules. Therefore the society which I will examine is that formed by scientists themselves: it is the body of scientists" (Bronowski 58). Bronowski makes it clear in his book
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“Moral Intelligence” Authors: Doug Lenick and Fed Kiel Critiqued by: October 10‚ 2007 Fall 2007 Class Honor Code: “I declare and affirm that the work submitted herein is my own work product from my own labor‚ efforts‚ and endeavors‚ and that I did not seek‚ receive‚ offer‚ or accept unauthorized aid or assistance or use of the work product of another‚ unless otherwise so stated fully and completely herein.” What does it take to be a great leader? Doug Lennick‚ author
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Culture and Moral Development Another criticism of Kohlberg’s view is that it is culturally based. A review of research on moral development in 27 countries concluded that moral reasoning is more culture-specific than Kohlberg envisioned and that Kohlberg’s scoring system does not recognize higher-level moral reasoning in certain cultural groups (Snarey‚ 1987). Examples of higher-level moral reasoning that would not be scored as such by Kohlberg’s system include values related to communal
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