Ethical Dilemmas 1) You are a prosecutor in a jurisdiction that does not use the grand jury system. An elderly man has administered a lethal dose of sleeping tablets to his wife ‚who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He calmly turned himself in to the police department‚ and the case is on the front page of the paper. It is entirely up to you whether to charge him with murder. What would you do? What criteria did you use to arrive at your decision? 2) You are a probation officer and
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Ethical perspectives: Friedman vs. Drucker‚ Murphy Bridget K. Johnson Northcentral University Ethics in Business (MGT7019-8) Professor George Ackerman November 10‚ 2012 Abstract Business ethics is a controversial topic. The concept of business ethics will be discussed compared to general ethical theories and consequences drawn and an expression of different writer’s interpretation of business ethics and social responsibility. Ethical perspectives: Friedman vs. Drucker‚ Murphy This
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Ethical Perspective In the following paper I am going to describe the four different ethical perspectives. I will start by describing my own personal ethical perspective as described by the University of Phoenix Ethical Awareness Inventory. After I describe my personal ethical perspective I will evaluate all four of the ethical perspectives starting with character/virtue based. I will then continue with obligation/ deontology based and results/utilitarianism based. I will conclude with a brief description
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such fields as healthcare‚ law‚ business‚ and more recently‚ the environment and biotechnology. The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) was the first international organization for professional fundraisers in the world to create a Code of Ethics in 1964. Ethics is a code of conduct‚ based on moral duties and obligations‚ which indicates how we should behave. Ethics deals with the ability to distinguish right from wrong and with the commitment to do right. (Definition of ethics from Michael
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ASSESSMENT OF AN ORGANIZATION Assessment of an Organization: u09a1 Wini Ray Capella University Introduction In this paper the learner describes‚ discusses and evaluates an organization in regard to their mission‚ services‚ operational methods for delivering such services‚ community involvement‚ history‚ cultural competence in regard to diverse staff and populations served. Daybreak: Changing Lives‚ Creating Futures This learner interviewed the Chief Operating Officer of an organization in the city
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This is the case about Apple’s company who’s known as the world electronic giant. Tim Cook Apple’s Inc. newly appointed CEO after Steve’s job faces ethical dilemma in the company. Tim Cook had to face ethical dilemma problem with Chinese company Foxconn‚ world largest electronics manufactures. Trevino and Nelson’s Eight-Step Ethical Decision Making Model 1 .Key Facts Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and develops computer software and personal computers. The company
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Holmes saw the legal obligation as a prediction that sanctions were likely to be visited upon someone not following a course of conduct. Accordingly‚ Holmes saw a contractual obligation as the obligation to pay damages in case of breach. But doesn’t this put the cart before the horse? He inspired the American realist movement with a jurisprudential theory based on the need to ‘think things‚ not words’. The examination of facts must dominate legal investigation. The object
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semester. During this activity‚ I observed many concepts that we have covered in this course. I will describe the following ten themes: teams‚ time constraints in team decision making‚ organizational commitment‚ task interdependence‚ role perceptions‚ ethical behavior‚ perception‚ motivation‚ positive reinforcement‚ and need for achievement. The first and most obvious theme reflected in this activity was the concept of a team. Each group of six colleagues was assigned to work together toward the common
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QUESTION: 1 Do you believe that whistle-blowing is good for organizations and its members‚ or is it‚ as David Stetler believes‚ often a means to extort financial gains from companies? Whistle-blowing is an ethical dilemma‚ it may be good and it may be bad for the organization and its members. It refers to reporting wrongdoing‚ injustice and any possible corruption by the member of the organization. Persons who blow the whistle generally do so out of a sense of public duty arising from high
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how hard a person tries. This is the element most of us focus on when we talk about motivation. However‚ high intensity is unlikely to lead to favourable job-performance outcomes unless the effort is channelled in a direction that benefits the organization. Therefore‚ we have to consider the quality of effort as well as its intensity. Effort that is directed toward‚ and consistent with‚ the organization’s goals is the kind of effort that we should be seeking. Finally‚ motivation has a persistence
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