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    Prevention and Management of Workplace Violence Submitted by Your name Course title Instructor name Date of submission University name • Define workplace violence • What type of strategies or interventions should HR management adopt to protect employees while at work? Prevention and Management of Workplace Violence Work place violence can be described as threatening‚ abusing‚ and physically harm to employees at the workplace. For example a Spanish teacher who came with Ak-47 in a guitar

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    this ethical system of belief. Other people also should be seen as valuable‚ dignified and with respect. If any action disrespects the moral value of any other human being‚ then it can be considered "right" in accord¬ance with this personal duty. The effects of things are produced as per the universality of laws and it is called Nature. Accordingly‚ the universal imperative of duty may be expressed thus: Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature

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    The core of utilitarianism is based around the idea that a person’s actions should be evaluated in terms of the pain and pleasure it causes. To balance these out it uses mathematics to make moral decisions that will have the happiest results. In human cloning‚ a utilitarian would argue it is essential to weigh up the pain and pleasure that the action would produce. Just because cloning may cause overall happiness it doesn’t mean it is ethically acceptable. Cloning has positive aspects it creates

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    beggars and sickly people begging for food and some money. It critically examines these procedures in the moral dilemma with reference of applying the concepts: rule and act utilitarianism. Should we give these beggars money or not? In deciding whether we give or not‚ the answer for that is we should give. Why? Act utilitarianism basically states that an action is moral if it produces the greatest happiness for the most people. This reason alone the act of giving them would be a good idea‚ because it

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    distributive justice. One distributive justice approach used in the healthcare field looks at the quality adjusted life year (QALY). The effectiveness of a treatment is based on an increase in the length and/or quality of life. This uses the utilitarianism theory which supports taking the action that results in the most good for the largest number of people. The end result is justified even if there are some undesirable actions to be taken to reach that end. Some argue against the use of this approach

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    In his book‚ The Right and the Good‚ W.D. Ross defends the theory of moral pluralism‚ which is “the idea that there are several values that may be equally correct and fundamental‚ and yet in conflict with one another” (New World Encyclopedia). In accepting this approach‚ we must assume that our ideas of right and wrong are influenced by multiple sources. According to Ross‚ in order to act morally right‚ we must be able to maintain a balance between our conflicting duties‚ or prima facie obligations

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    listens to Abraham and says he won’t and Abraham manages to convince God himself to change his mind. Now I feel like this story is very much related to the topic we are discussing here in this story we can see that god and Abraham are not using utilitarianism to go about their decisions they are using Kent method

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    Discrimination often reflects an abuse of power within an organisation‚ where members of one group of people yield greater power than others‚ generally women. It is linked with women’s disadvantaged status at work and‚ more generally‚ in society.(Frazier‚ P. A. and Cohen‚ B. B. (1992) ‘Research on the Gender bias against women: implications for counsellor training’. The Counselling Psychologist. 20: 141-158.) The matters of blatant employment dicrimination or sexual harrasment at work seems to be

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    Religion in the Workplace Moises Machuca SOC 120 Intro to Ethics & Social Responsibility Professor Brianne Larsen Monday April 27 ‚ 2014 People around the world have a set of beliefs whether they choose to believe in Jesus Christ or not to agnostic and gnostic‚ everyone has a set of beliefs which they hold on to. However the question arises on how can we practice it outside our homes specifically at work without imposing other people’s rights who may not hold to the same views as one does.

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    Personal Privacy and its importance within the workplace “Privacy in the workplace is one of the more troubling personal and professional issues of our time. But privacy cannot be adequately addressed without considering a basic foundation of ethics” (Hartman n.d). We are unable to reach a meaningful normative conclusion about workplace privacy rights and obligations without an understanding of the fundamental and commons of the ethical basis of justice and also a thorough understanding of individual

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