Lucila Sanchez MPP 540/ Prof. Maitland Transformational Leadership and Utilitarian and Duty Ethics alongside Justice Theory Morality: A Model for Ideal Ethical Leadership in Public Policy The greatest responsibility that leaders in public policymaking have is to serve the public. The public constitutes not only those who elect a leader‚ but anyone who’s lives could be affected by the decisions made by that leader. These decisions may have lasting impacts on future generations and across
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or concerned with consequences of an action (Thiroux J & Krasemann K 2012). This theory believes that an act is not necessarily considered to be ethically right or wrong‚ but rather is judged to be morally applicable because of the consequences its position creates (Lecture Week 2). So‚ from a consequentialist viewpoint‚ a morally right action is one that creates the best overall result. For example‚ a consequentialist may claim that lying is wrong because of the negative consequences it may produce
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ENGL 1121 Breen Definition Essay September 18‚ 2013 Justice Justice by most people is defined as moral rightness and the act administering the deserved punishment or reward to those who have earned it. The simplest is that it is the absence of injustice‚ fairness and responsibility for one’s actions. We shouldn’t wait for someone to abuse others or property before acting. I feel that everyone should be held accountable for his or her actions. Once a situation has become clear
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CARE ETHICS (The Ethics of Care) A Presentation of the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership and Ethical Awareness for International Collaboration‚ Brown University‚ 2012 Introduction • Care ethics [The ethics of care] originated among feminists who maintained‚ on the basis of Carol Gilligan’s work‚ A Different Voice ‚ that women and girls approach moral issues with a strong concern for empathy and caring in interpersonal relationships. Care and Virtues • Care ethics focuses on virtues
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Richard O. Mason Applying Ethics to Information Technology Issues The articles in this special section express a common theme: the use of information technology in society is creating a rather unique set of ethical issues that requires the making of new moral choices on the part of society and has spawned special implications for its members. Technology itself is not the only‚ nor necessarily the most responsible‚ cause of these issues. All ethical questions arise initially out of human
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INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT & ETHICS ACTIV-1 ACTIVITY 1 – TOPIC 1: CULTURAL DIMENSIONS DIALOGUE 1 1) Which cultural differences cause the misunderstanding or confusion? Which cultural dimensions can help us understand the situation? On my understanding of the situation – bearing in mind that when in a multicultural dialogue‚ many meanings can be found or understood by just context without the use of words – I believe that the confusion has its origin by the cultural difference amongh both
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on an as needed basis on the insurance side. Several years ago‚ I bought a program called the Insurance Profit s System; it is not a project based program. However‚ it had many of the foundational steps that were laid out for the Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM‚) such as creating common process for agents so we are all doing and saying the same things. This is a project we took on as a company and it took approximately a year and half to get through all the required steps. All of the employees
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Fundamental Moral Theology II The course aims to complete building up the framework for moral decision-making in the Roman Catholic tradition‚ exploring more the basis of Christian moral reasoning. Content The main themes in the course will include: Natural law tradition and its contemporary understanding‚ Moral norms and moral values‚ a synthetic view of the moral decision‚ Freedom and responsibility‚ Culture and morality‚ the modern concept of sin‚ its dimensions and the call to conversion
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Reason why people give up on ethics Self-interest sometimes morphs into greed and selfishness‚ which is unchecked self-interest at the expense of someone else. This greed becomes a kind of accumulation fever. “If you accumulate for the sake of accumulation‚ accumulation becomes the end‚ and if accumulation is the end‚ there’s no place to stop‚” he said. The focus shifts from the long-term to the short-term‚ with a big emphasis on profit maximization. For example‚ swaps (where two communication
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that Dudley and Stephens were innocent? Why does the prosecution reject this argument? How would a utilitarian judge the case? * They were argued to be innocent because it was out of necessity to kill the boy * Had they not killed and eaten the boy‚ they could have died * The boy was already struggling to stay alive‚ he would have been the first to die anyway * A utilitarian would say that it was for the benefit of three others‚ when otherwise all 4 of them would have died
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