ETHICAL ISSUES IN FORECASTING AND DECISION ANALYSIS Dunal M. McCurdy MBA 615- Business Foundations November 24‚ 2011 ETHICAL ISSUES IN FORECASTING AND DECISION ANALYSIS It is especially important to think about the most critical causes of the problem in making your forecasts and decisions. The process of forecasting involves using observations about the problem situation to predict the outcomes of your own actions‚ the actions of others‚ and the outcomes of other situational
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The (EIA) Ethical Awareness Inventory analysis utilizes 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
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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 principles Beauchamp and Childress (2013)‚ a decision or situation is ethically correct if it meet’s the four principles and are respected and balanced it is a tool for ethical analysis of the situation. Autonomy: This principle is that people make their own decisions relating to care for this to happen if the individual has capacity to make decisions‚ individuals need to be informed the about options‚ including the pros and cons. Non-maleficence: This relates to the requirement not to harm
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5 Steps of Ethical Analysis 1. identifying the facts 2. defining the conflict or dilemma and identifying the values involved 3. identifying the stakeholders 4. identifying options that can be taken 5. identifying potential consequences of actions 1. As technology becomes wider spread the misuse of it has become inevitable. Some technology users feel that if they have access to data‚ regardless if it is legal or illegal‚ they will use it without considering the consequences their actions have
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An Ethical Analysis of Assisted Euthanasia Alicia Anderson Nataliya Cuna Tatyana Kovalevsky-Ziemelis Dwight Lyles Francis Njoku Grand Canyon University NRS 437V November 5‚ 2014 An Ethical Analysis of Assisted Euthanasia Voluntary and assisted euthanasia is not a new phenomenon. End of life care for long term‚ short term‚ and terminal illnesses has always occurred. However‚ with advances in medicine‚ patients’ lives may be lengthened. For many individuals‚ end of life care is paired with pain
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Study Analysis Physician-Assisted Death Rob Thibodeau July‚ 2012 This assignment will discuss a case involving an individual known to me. It centres on the real and contentious issue of the “right to die”‚ specifically in the context of physician-assisted death. This issue is widely debated in the public eye for two reasons. The first considers under what conditions a person can choose when to die and the second considers if someone ever actually has a ‘right to die’. The following analysis will
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IKEA Group An Ethical Communication Analysis Sha Ma Ethical Issues in Organization Communication October 20‚ 2013 Background information on the organization IKEA is an International furniture company‚ which has 298 stores in 26 countries. IKEA was founded in 1947. The key player and founder of IKEA is Ingvar Kamprad. The International Headquarters of IKEA are located in Delft‚ Netherlands. IKEA was the first retailer in its field to establish
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What is true and false‚ right and wrong‚ moral and unethical? Our lives are trapped in an endless cycle of subjective dichotomies. The world we inhabit is malleable‚ and the human mind is a feeble‚ flawed organ susceptible to the malcontented demons that surround us. Even the most powerful people on our planet can fall prey to the most prevalent fault of them all: masters and marionettes. To some‚ the masses are no greater than a bunch of puppets‚ needing unwarranted‚ unknown‚ and unnecessary totalitarian
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Ethical Analysis of Shawshank Redemption Ethics is defined as “a set of moral principles‚ especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group‚ field‚ or form of conduct”. An individual principle and values sum up the belief if an action or behavior is deemed to be right. However‚ this opens up a debate within society or different set of audience/groups if an act or behavior is morally right and acceptable. Luckily‚ there is some virtue that has been transcended into the culture and societal
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