Ethics Audit Questions HSM/230 TARA HORN Michael Cottone 01/08/2015 Board Who gives the board a sense of accountability? Do they answer to someone with a higher authority or is it decided between the members? This question is important to assessing the ethical code of a business or organization by helping to understand that everyone needs to be accountable to someone. As a manager I am responsible for the 15 people working under me and the everyday functioning
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and Utilitarian products ( Laptop & Luxury watches) Utilitarian Consumption: The consumption of products has tangible benefit for consumer. In western culture‚ such products are often labeled as practical or necessary. Utilitarian products are purchased and consumed to satisfy consumer’s practical or functional needs. Utilitarian consumer behavior has been described as ergic‚ task-related and rational. In the marketing literature choice and decision with respect to utilitarian products
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Ethical Game The first skill set is learning how to use the four primary ethical perspectives that are used in decision making. These perspectives are called the Four Ethical Lenses. The second skill is learning to use a practical and repeatable decision-making method called the Baird Decision Model. As we become adults‚ one of our primary responsibilities is to decide what values and ethical priorities are the most important to us. The ethical game simulation assist with that. Mysterious
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Potential sources of bias in heuristics Misplaced loyalty Obedience to authority and susceptibility to peer pressure. The desire to fit into an organization‚ to be a team player‚ to get along with co-employees‚ people are more likely to undertake unethical actions in the workplace and elsewhere if peers are engaging in similar behaviour. Overoptimism and overconfidence People tend to rate themselves as well above average in most traits‚ including honesty. Businesspeople tend to believe that
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1) Corporate Ethics - The broad area dealing with the way in which a company behaves towards‚ and conducts business with‚ its internal and external STAKEHOLDERS‚ including employees‚ investors‚ creditors‚ customers‚ and regulators. In certain national systems minimum standards are required or recommended in order to eliminate potential conflicts of interest or client/employee mistreatment. 2) Board of Directors (BOD) - An appointed or elected body or committee that has overall responsibility
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Committee‚ Hospital Trustees From: -Lead Surgeon Date: January 20‚ 2013 Subject: Heart Transplant Candidate The purpose of this memorandum is to come to a conclusion about which individual should receive the heart transplant taking into account ethics. There are three people who are in need of the organ transplant; Jerry‚ Lisa‚ and Ozzy. In order to make an informed decision it is important to look at all three cases. Candidate #1- Jerry is a 55 year old male with three children. In his early
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R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S & L E A D E R S H I P ethics Ethics‚ Professional Judgment and Principles-based Decision Making Under IFRS By Steven M. Mintz or almost 40 years‚ a movement has been under way to establish one set of intemational accounting standards for all countries around the world in order to facilitate intemational trade and investment. Since it is no longer unusual to have foreign companies list their stock on the New York Stock Exchange‚ one common set of accounting
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Situation 1: Adapted from WAFBLA “Everyone Else Does It!” Ethics Project You have been struggling in your Engineering Models class. The content does not come easily‚ so you have put in countless hours to understand and do the assignments. There is another student who breezes through the assignments‚ getting high marks for the work he turns in. You know for a fact that he has used his college-aged cousin to do some of the assignments for him. You don’t know how many assignments were turned in this
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Ethics Essay ETH/316 Abstract * It will discuss the difference in how each theory addresses ethics and morality. It will identify the similarities of virtue ethics‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontology. Ethical theories concentrate on what is right; they attempt to seek the outcomes of one’s actions by applying several rules that seek what is good. These ethical theories have many similarities and yet different‚ our actions can be categorized in virtue ethics and utilitarianism theories. While
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In the nursing profession‚ keeping patient confidentiality is of the upmost concern. It is an important feature of the nurse -patient relationship and must be maintain as basis of providing care. Confidentiality is described as respecting other people’s secret and keeping security information gathered from individuals in the privileged circumstances of a professional relationship. (Lee and Godbold ‚ 2012). The privacy act offer nurses some flexibility in using professional opinion regarding disclosure
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