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    in international human resource management‚ financial management‚ marketing‚ and production. In human resource management‚ there has been a challenge to maintain employees leading to child labor in third world countries. To effect this ethical issue‚ companies should seek to produce their products in factories

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    major distinction between utilitarian and deontological reasoning. Make reference to all relevant aspects of the two positions including the ’act’ and ’rule’ versions along with pertinent examples that clarify your answer. The major distinction between Emmanual Kant’s deontological reasoning and Mill’s utilitarian reasonsing is that deontological reasoning refers to duty‚ which is usually determined without regard to circumstances or consequences where as utilitarian reasoning always considers

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    Explain Utilitarian Ethics (25 marks) Utilitarian ethics is an expansive field of normative ethics that believes that the action that you take should be that which maximises utility‚ that is to say prospering and maximizing happiness whilst mitigating suffering or sadness as much as possible. Whilst it was once often considered a hedonistic field‚ there being one that argues pleasure being the only true‚ intrinsic good or aim‚ it is now more commonly referred to that of a consequentiality field‚

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    A utilitarian model of ethics is one where the greatest good is produced for the greatest number of people. As explained in the text‚ payola is the act of using money to get air play. They further add that statistics show a significant correlation between air play and generated profit from that song. In my opinion‚ this is an unethical from a utilitarian point of view. I argue this point of view because there is an emphasis on quality. This is one of the important milestones for any legitimate organization

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    The task that stands before me in this paper is to address two situations and determine the ethical parameters in which a person should act. The two philosophical approaches that I will examine the situations with the Kantian and Utilitarian point of view. Kant deciphers his ethical questions by examining a person’s motivation for performing an act regardless of the consequences. A person who utilizes the Kantian view believes that the only pure good is pure human reason without consequences. This

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    and in that way it completes the goal of the Utilitarian. However‚ as soon as one of your virtues got in the way of you or someone else receiving the most possible pleasure from an action‚ it would interfere with the Utilitarian way of thinking. 3. A. Unlike Kantian ethics‚ the ethics of care focus on personal dependence and relationships. This theory recognizes that people are interdependent‚ and as such should take care of one another. Kantian ethics however‚ is based on the motives behind the action

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    deontological vs. utilitarian ethics Kant believed that morality is dependent upon reason‚ that to act rationally was the same as acting morally. He placed a high value upon duty in determining the moral worth of an action. Kant’s deontological ethics is essentially an ethics of duty or obligation. As such‚ he claims that the moral worth of an action depends solely on whether or not it was done exclusively from a sense of duty. If an act is done simply because one is so inclined‚ the act has no

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    the most appealing Nozick’s entitlement theory or Rawls theory of distributive justice? The defence of liberal ideologies emerged not long after the Second World War‚ prior to this there had been little faith in liberal values during the 1920’s and 1930’s‚ however after the war there appeared to be a renewed defence for liberal thinking ranging across a variety of ideological theories. To the present day these liberal perspectives continue to influence political thinking with regards to rights‚

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    Your Gap Year." U.S. News and World Report. 28 August 2006. Harpaz‚ Beth J. "Planning a Post-High School Gap Year? Consider Cost‚ Structure‚ and Commitment to College Plans." The Canadian Press 17 May 2012. King‚ Andrew. "Minding the gap? Young people ’s accounts of taking a Gap Year as a form of identity work in higher education." Journal of Youth Studies (2010). Longson‚ Sally. Making Work Experience Count: How to Get The Right Work Experience and Improve Your Career Prospects. Oxford: How To Books

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    | The Utilitarian‚ Libertarian and Rawlsian approach to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain Water | Justice Case Study Paper | | Rochelle Carlisle | 1/31/2013 | | Many people believe that water is just nothing‚ which in a way they are somewhat correct. Have you ever looked at the label on bottled water? What do you see or better yet what don’t you see. You don’t see numbers on the nutritional facts of bottled water because water is just that nothing‚ or is it? Water makes up about 70 percent

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