to protect the company from a law suit I thought it was best to let him go as well. It was more important for me to think of what would be best for the company as a whole using Utilitarian ethics which focuses on the greater good for the greatest number of people in the company as well as Consequentialist Ethics which focuses on the consequences of a decision or action. I had to think about how other employee’s would react if this situation was taken lightly‚ as
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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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Business Ethics Assignment 1 Introduction This essay is to generally discuss how ethical theories provide guides in valuing human being’s behaviours to be ethically good or bad. We also have a look in different ethical theories to see why they are incompatible. The ethical theories include Utilitarianism‚ Kantian moral theory‚ virtue ethics and rights theory. Drawing on two of the theories‚ we will outline their positions and critically discuss the claim in a business situation
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a. Strengths of the analysis include the idea that talking about ethical issues is important‚and that the analysis suggests avenues for improving ethics education. The weaknesses primarily cited by students included the “idealistic” nature of the discussion. Onecommon theme emerged‚ which is that frauds and unethical behavior occurred long before formal business school education. Students often cited this fact as anunaddressed weakness in Professor Waddock’s analysis. b. The average level of moral
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BOTTLED WATER – A REPORT 1. INTRODUCTION: The global bottled water industry has become very profitable in the past ten years. Huge multinational companies currently make billions of dollars on water they simply extract from the ground‚ slap a label on and sell at competitive prices. Examples of these companies includes: Aquafina (Pepsi)‚ Dasani (Coke)‚ Perrier (Nestle)‚ Evian‚ and Fiji Water among hundreds of others. Many countries have become very oriented toward bottled water. According to
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Sommers suggested the teachers to teach their students individual virtues as they are further away from their morality. Striking changes have taken place from the more directive teaching of right and wrong‚ by study and example‚ to situation ethics‚ dilemma ethics and other approaches that rationally dissect moral acts. The set of approaches imply that there are no moral absolutes to uphold. Sommers feels that if students are taught that way they can lose a sense of moral direction and not take
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that we could accept as universal laws – that is‚ rules we would be willing for everyone to follow in all circumstances. (Ruggeiro. V.R. ‚2011) 2.0 What Is a Virtue? The first systematic description of virtue ethics was written down by Aristotle in his famous work Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotle said that a virtue is a trait of character manifested in habitual action. The word “habitual” here is important. The virtue of honesty‚ for example‚ is not possessed by someone who tells the truth only
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Ethics lo1 1.1background and development of theoretical ethical approaches Deontological Theory The deontological theory state that the consequences or outcomes of actions are not important‚ what actually matter is that the actions are morally justified. For example drunken driving is wrong‚ now if a person argues that he safely navigated his way back home and for that reason he/she should not be held accountable by law‚ they are wrong because their action was wrong in the first place and
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An Ethical Dilemma Introduction An ethical dilemma exists when the right thing to do is not clear or when members of the health care team cannot agree on the right thing to do (Potter‚ Perry‚ Stockert‚ & Hall‚ 2011). S.Z. is a 65-year-old Hispanic man who was admitted to the hospital for the third time in 6 months‚ for hyperglycemia. He is now scheduled to be discharged but his daughter pleads with the nurse that she does not want her father discharged because he is non-complaint with
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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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