TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137) Student name: Hung Tran Duy Student ID: 2156098 Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people
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BUS 1403 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. Worksheet – 20 February 2013 Please complete the following tasks: By looking at the online text (BB Learn‚ Course content‚ Week 1‚Text/Readings‚ Textbook Chapter 1pdf) complete the following exercise: Deontology – Underlying rules (page 14 of online text) 1. Which person is generally regarded as being the founder of deontology? Deontology has its foundations in the works of Immanuel Kant 2. Explain what is meant by the Golden
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Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons Katherine Bryson ETH/316 October 15‚ 2012 Mark Cobia Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons The similarities between the virtue theory‚ the utilitarianism theory and deontological theory are that they all support good and responsibility. Virtue theory not only concentrates on how an individual acts but also what a person should strive to be‚ for example a religious figure may personify perfection when in the public when they really should strive for that perfection
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four subjects to analyze some of the characteristics of different ethical perspectives. The four ethical subjects represent “CORE” which includes: Character‚ Obligation‚ Results‚ and Equity. The first subject character‚ known as the virtue theory‚ is based on personal virtue. The second subject is obligation‚ which is known as deontology and‚ is based on a sense of duty to do what is right. The third subject is a result‚ which is known as utilitarianism‚ is based on the consequences of actions taken
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Approaches XXX XXXUniversity Instructor: XXX Course Name: XXX Date: XXX This paper summarizes each of ethical approaches‚ especially the Grand Principles‚ Nash’s Covenantal Business Ethic‚ Damon’s Four Dimensions of Business Morality‚ and Hill’s (2008) Christian Ethic for Business. Also‚ this paper critiques each of them through analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of approaches. Finally‚ the most favor approach is provided at the end. The Grand Principles which
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In the 1940s the United States was getting ready to get involved in World War II and needed to set an example of good ethics on a global stage to help bring. The book The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc written by‚ Douglas Brinkley has many examples of ethical decision making that was critical at the time in order for the United States to bring peace to World War II. For instance the author is re-establishing already known information but with a new style of how he obtained the information‚ which was straight
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An Ethical Defense of Same-Sex Marriage (I am currently on an Ethics Bowl team and have compiled an Ethical defense of Same-Sex Marriage) So the main issue that is often brought up in discussions of Same-Sex Marriage is the right of the individual versus morality. The claim is that we must‚ as public citizens‚ decide between the two. Do we side with the right of the individual and support Same-Sex Marriage or do we side with morality and oppose it? I attest that the two are‚ in fact‚ not mutually
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“It is not the case that only the worthy person has this heart. All humans have it. The worthy person simply never loses it.” Mencius linked up Confucianism to the ethical norms and theory of virtue‚ the essence of which is that the ruling class of the patriarchal ethics as innate human nature‚ From the Mencius’s argument on "benevolence”. It can be seen that there is not much difference between basic content and Confucius "benevolence" such as未有仁而遗其亲者也. They are both piety and
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Criticisms leveled against Ethical Theories 1. Criticisms leveled against Consequentialism. Consequentialism is based on the consequences of actions. It is sometimes called a teleological theory‚ from the Greek word telos‚ meaning goal. According to consequentialism‚ actions are right or wrong depending on whether their consequences further the goal. The goal (or‚ "the good") can be something like the happiness of all people or the spreading of peace and safety. Anything which contributes to
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In order to analyze David Eddy’s argument‚ "that the objective of health care is to maximize the health of the population served subject to available resources". Let us first examine John Stuart Mill’s ethical theory of Utilitarianism. Mill held two theories on utilitarianism‚ a normative and a psychological one. Normative views of Mills’ include his "principle of utility" which says actions are right if they produce the greatest amount of happiness and pleasure and wrong if they cause displeasure
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