...Ethics in Sports PH201 Choosing and Using Values April 24, 2012 Competitive sports have a tremendous impact on our culture, influencing the values of millions of participants and spectators. When you look at the definition of sports in the dictionary, it is described as “a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively” ("The American Heritage®," 2003). The fundamental idea of sport is character building, teaching the virtues of dedication, perseverance, endurance and self-discipline. Sports are an important part of life; it can bring people to together. In some cases give people a purpose. This is why it is important that sports are played properly and good ethics and values are shown. It is better to teach this to children, so it’s with them as they grow up. Sports are supposed to help us learn not only from defeat but from victory as well and in team sports we learn the importance of co-competiveness and moral values. This is also true when analyzing sports in real life. People participate in sports for different reasons. Some participate as a recreational thing or a pastime, while others participate in a sport as an industry or a business environment. Sports have been a huge public interest dating back to the gladiator fights and the early ages. The results back then were decided by an emperor, but today we have rules and regulations with umpires,...
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...particular situation, merely through reading books? But gradually our perception changed. (And this is what OB is all about – PERCEPTION). As the course progressed, we started relating it to ourselves. Though most of us do not have any experience or exposure to organization, but we could relate it to our past experiences. The way how we perceive people, situations, and surroundings and how most of the times we end up being wrong and mistaken. When I entered a b-school, or even my graduation college, I formed opinions about people when I met them, and that’s pretty natural. All of us do so and apparently end up being wrong. (If not always then most of the times). A person, whom we find arrogant, gradually turns out to be a great human being and a good friend. And the person, whom we presume to be nice and friendly, sometimes turns out to be shrewd and mean. So, the first thing I...
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...The earlier in the year a player is born, the more likely they are to succeed and eventually be a professional. The reason for this is because of the cutoff date which is January 1. This means that in the hockey leagues, their could be a ten year old born on January 1 and a ten year old born december 1 both competing for a spot on a team. Yes, they are both ten but their is almost a years difference in their birthday which means the child born in January has had almost a full extra year to grow and develop. At that stage it is a minute difference but the problem becomes larger as they age. The older bigger ten year old will most likely get selected for the better teams which means more training, then they will be better at 11 because they've had extra training which means they will get selected for the special teams at 11 which means more practice. This pattern snowballs creating a much larger gap. In “Outliers” they look at a team in Canada called the Medicine Hat Tigers. On this particular hockey team, seventeen out of twenty-three players or 74 percent are born in the first four months of the year. While extremely lopsided, that is how most teams are throughout Canada all the way to the professional leagues. A person cannot control their own birth date, further proving that getting lucky with you're background is huge...
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...Baseball, Steroids and Business Ethics: How Breaches of Trust Can Change the Game: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1902) Baseball, Steroids and Business Ethics: How Breaches of Trust Can Change the Game Published : February 20, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton The day after former Senator George Mitchell released his damning report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball last December, President George Bush, a former baseball-team owner himself, seemed to speak for many disgusted fans when he pronounced, "Steroids have sullied the game." The Mitchell Report fingered 89 professional ball players, but many of these allegations were nothing new for baseball watchers. Game of Shadows, a 2006 exposé by a pair of investigative journalists, and Juiced, a 2005 tell-all memoir by player José Canseco, described a world of professional baseball rife with performance-enhancing drug abuse. The ongoing scandal, which first surfaced in the late 1990s, has bubbled on for a decade, leading commentators to label it the "steroids era." With fans aware of such egregious bad behavior, why has attendance at Major League Baseball games reached record-breaking highs during that same time period? Are baseball's "consumers" impervious to the ethical lapses of their teams? No, say Wharton professors, but the case demonstrates how bias, competition and a lack of oversight worked together to create an ethically toxic atmosphere. This is a single/personal...
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...Vince knew his place in the society as an influential figure. He took advantage of his position to teach his team members as well the community around Green Bay the value of unity regardless of race and ethnicity. This is apparent in his decisions to tax any person who advanced racial and ethnic slurs in his team. He also influenced his society at Green Bay residents to boycott restaurants that were known for segregating against African American players. Lombardi sought to face the evil of discrimination head on during the 1960’s by attempting to break the cycle of segregation evil that was a common practice at the time. His teams reflected this virtue in that he put three African American. Willey Wood, Herb Adderley and Willie Davis were in prominent positions in his team which was normally not the practice at that time. He taught the concept of teamwork to his teams all working with a focus on winning championships which eventually bore...
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...CONTRACT LAW KENNETH D ROBINSON JR BUSINESS LAW 311 GARY GENTRY 9 JUNE 2014 Abstract A Body of law that governs oral and written agreements associated with exchange of goods and services, money, and properties is recognized as contract law. Contract law includes topics such as the nature of contractual obligations, limitation of actions, freedom of contract, privity of contract, termination of contract, and covers also agency relationships, commercial paper, and contracts of employment. Contract law is one of the many different aspects of business law and must be understood in the world of law. From valid contracts, to voidable, enforceable and unenforceable contracts they must all be understood and taken into account. If you were starting a business you would first need to know what contract law is, its history and why is in important in the world today. CONTRACT LAW Over the last several of weeks since announcing it was banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life, The NBA has had hopes of getting approval from the league's owners to force him to sell the team, little has been known of the NBA's exact legal strategy. While the league's constitution, publicly revealed for the first time by the league last Tuesday, made it clear that grounds exist to remove an owner if that owner "fail(s) or refuse(s) to fulfill its contractual obligations to the Association," it remained unclear what contracts Sterling might have violated when he made...
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...Managements Role in Players Being Violent Jennifer Grant BUS/ December 3, 2012 Dr. David Snow Managements Role in Players Being Violent When sports first started up they were meant to be something fun, to relieve stress, and teach youth about working hard, time management, teamwork, and to build character (Champion, Ruddell, & Thornton, 2012). Over the years, sports have gotten more and more competitive. Sports should have a positive impact on our community and serve as entertainment. If entertainment to our society is violence and causing harm to others then we are living in a messed up world. Management plays a major role in this violence by either being to tranquil in how they handle violence or even if they are encouraging the violence. When I was growing up the sports I participated in taught me about sportsmanship, character, being a good loser and winner, showing respect to others, teamwork, hard work, time management, social skills and more. My coaches played a big part in that, they made sure that we played fairly, and always played with sportsmanship. The coaches that I played under were great role models and winning did not mean anything if we didn’t do it the right way. In high school, we made it to the final four twice, won district all four years, were regional runner-ups twice and won regionals twice. We were very successful and at no point was violence being encouraged, and if there was any bad sportsmanship or violence...
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...Ethics Essay Virtue theory, utilitarianism and deontological ethics are similar in that they each represent how morality and ethics is judged. They differ by judging different aspects of what is right or best. Each has a unique definition and can be used in different situations to determine if decisions were made ethically (Boylan, 2009). Virtue ethics is the view that you should try cultivate excellence in all that you do and all that others do. Physicians’ continuing education on the latest procedures in order to best serve their patients would be an example of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics is a way to look at someone’s character development over a period of time a project, career or perhaps a lifetime (Boylan, 2009). Putting the good of the group ahead of an individual is utilitarianism. Where virtue ethics judges individual achievements, utilitarianism says the individual acts ethically if their actions benefit the group even though it may not be good for everyone. When offered a promotion at work if one was to step aside and suggest another that may be better suited for the job would be an example of utilitarianism (Boylan, 2009). Deontology is a moral theory that emphasizes one's duty to do a particular action, itself, is inherently right and not through any other sorts of calculations" (Boylan, 2009). Virtue theory, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics are similar that they demonstrate the good in a person. The difference is the motivation behind the good, the ethics...
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...Jose Rivera-Rivera February 12, 2013 All of us have reasons for what we do, for the many decisions that shape how we interact with the world. These reasons are part of our worldview and in turn can be traced back to a theory of good, from these we will discuss: Virtue Theory, Deontological Theory and the Utilitarianism Theory. These three are the basic Ethical theories and will be described and then compared, giving similitudes and differences between them. I will also give an example and try to explain the relationship between values, virtue and moral concepts thru the lens of the Utilitarianism Theory. First we should give brief descriptions of the basis for each of the three theories, starting with Virtue or Character Ethics. You should strive for excellence in all you do! Does that sound familiar? Virtue Ethics take the viewpoint that in living life you should try to cultivate excellence in all that you do (Boylan, 2009). This view, which takes a look at the complete character of the person, is more focused on the long run and will look leniently on an occasional slip up instead of nitpicking at specific situations. Thinking of it in terms of sports analogies it can be compared to the selection and induction of a great baseball player to the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame. That decision is based on that player’s performance over their whole career, a slump on that player’s last couple of seasons will not affect how they are looked on the long run. On the other hand...
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... Interview Material The vocation I would one-day love to have is to be a “big time” women’s college basketball coach. Even if I do not become “big time,” and I am just a regular coach that is also fine with me, because Proverbs 22:1 says, “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.” Ron Greene was the first guest speaker that we had the opportunity to hear speak in class. He is a very well known and accomplished non-profit executive with an extensive record in helping children grow into what they aspire to be. He provides leadership, management and direction to boys and girls club organizations in completing its tasks of developing children into positive, productive, open-minded, and responsible adult citizens. Ron Greene’s overall goal if nothing else is to impact lives of people positively and that is also the goal I have set forth for myself in pursuing this career. As long as I am able to impact lives positively through my coaching, that will make it all worthwhile. I interviewed Morris Brandon who is my former AAU coach, who is now an assistant coach at Virginia Union University. He has coached many basketball teams, on all different levels, starting from Boys and Girls Clubs all the way up to the college level. He enjoys this job to the fullest because it allows him to impact lives positively, and he also gets to be around the game that he loves. Although there are great advantages...
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...Ethics ETH/316 July 14, 2013 Michael Mc Neal Ethics There are many theories in existence that can be argued for or against whether they align with our cultural or personal values and morals. Virtue, utilitarianism, and deontology are three such theories that have some similarities and differences in the belief and thought process. All three theories are similar in the idea of doing what is right, but they may be for different motives and reasons. The virtue theory claims that actions should aim to the good, but it is not clear if the good is for one person, all people, or even for general society. According to Boylan (2009) “It takes the viewpoint that in living your life you should try to cultivate excellence in all that you do and all that others do” (Chapter 11). When I read this, it causes me to believe that I am responsible for the good that others do as well. The concepts of Utilitarianism are putting the team first or in other words acting like a team player. This theory states that an action is morally right when it produces a greater good for the whole team. In this idea, the group or team comes before our own good and in that case, there will be personal sacrifices. It is similar to virtue and deontology in the idea of doing good and making the right choice, but it differs in who will be affected by this decision. Looking at deontology, this differs from the other two through the idea that actions are based purely...
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... There are four main questions that come up with the issue of interscholastic sports programs. They are; what claims do people make when they argue for and against the program? How are sport programs related to education and the experiences of students? What effects do sports programs have on the organization of schools and the achievement of educational goals? And, what are the major problems associated with high school and college sport programs and how might they be solved? All of these questions are important for understanding and solving the issues that come along with sports and academics in high school. Most people in the U.S. support the existence of school-sponsored sports and value the attributes that they bring. But in some cases, schools have had issues and made budget cuts that raise questions about the importance put on sports, the development of young people, and educational goals. Most of the time these responses to these issues are parents or individuals that have had a problem with the academics of a student due to sports and activities. There are six main claims each for and against interscholastic sports and they all contrast and also all have some truth to them. There are both positives and negatives about being a student athlete, it all...
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...school. A 2009 court case brought this issue to light when a former college player sued the NCAA and EA Games for using his name in a video game and not paying royalties. The case is headed towards an NCAA payout, and many athletes are joining the plaintiff side as allowed by courts, as their names were used as well.1 Although this event may seem like justice for college athletes, it does not satisfy their right to be paid while attending school. There are many suggestions mentioned in an article by Time Magazine, but each includes contradictions and ethical problems that cannot be overlooked. From a philosophical perspective, compensating college athletes would be unethical and I think we can see this by examining the impact and a few theories. The article from Time Magazine is completely supportive of paying the students, and mentions that not every school would participate, only the 60 or so schools in the power conferences. Within those 60, only basketball and football would be paying players with the exception of schools to pay other sports or star players who have a great impact. 1 My fundamental problem with this kind of strategy is the lack of equality of all collegiate athletes. If you choose to pay these kids, how can we ethically only pay those who attend schools in certain conferences, or only pay players in specific sports? Also, how is it fair that a Division I school like Duke be allowed to pay basketball players, but a smaller market team like us, St. John’s not...
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...SK Telecom: Pursuing Happiness through Corporate Social Responsibility Case summary: SK Telecom was founded in1984 and introduced the first car phone and mobile paging services in Korea. Since then it has been known as the largest Korean mobile communications company and for a series of technological innovations. SK Telecom created a dedicated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) function to manage SK Telecom and SK Group’s corporate community involvement programs. They believed good CSR contributed to a better corporate reputation. In 2008, SK Telecom’s CSR program was revised to include five separate areas of responsibility, Ethics, Environment, Community Involvement, Win-Win Partnership, and Customer Protection. In 2009, it created a newly CSR Team which is composed of Corporate Community Involvement Team and the Ethics Management Team. As time passed, with the revised CSR strategy and the new CSR Team, some problems occurred. There was no clear line of decision making for CSR activities around the five areas; the newly created structure failed to deliver a comprehensive strategy on CSR; the two teams that came together to create the CSR team struggled to create synergy. Five forces analysis: ◆ Threat of new entrants-Low -High capital requirement -Patents limit new competition -Advanced technologies are required ◆ Bargaining power of suppliers-Low -There are many suppliers of telecom equipment, like fiber-optic cables, high-tech broadband switching equipment...
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...digitally and globally. They have done a good job adapting to the world as it evolves, ensuring presence technologically, which makes the game of baseball available to anyone, anywhere, with a capable device. This factor, along with the economy, fans, and the other competing major sports in our country has an effect on how the league has to be managed. MLB uses the four functions of management very frequently. There is always planning for the next season, postseason, or all-star game. There are the annual Winter Meetings, at which motions for possible changes are brought up. MLB is unique in the way that each team is organized in its own way, as well as the league office itself. Within MLB, there are thirty teams in total, with one team calling Canada its home. Leadership within the league has many facets. There are Owners and General Managers who make major decisions such as who will manage the players on the field and which available players will make their team a championship contender. The Managers of each team are responsible, along with their coaching staff, for player performance, the organization of lineups and pitching rotation, and ultimately, wins and losses. There are also veteran players who lead by giving advice to younger players and by example on the field. The General Manager and Manager, in this case, have to be in control of their players. If performance is not up to par, the Manager will hold the players who are underperforming out of the lineup...
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