...Answer the following four questions in your assignment response. Please read all four questions before beginning. After you have finished answering the four questions, read the new development and answer question 5. 1. Discuss the following case in terms of virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. Can you identify examples of each (or their opposites) in the case study as written? Where and by whom? Explain your answers. Please do not get emotionally or personally involved with "finger pointing." Stay focused on virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. Answer: Aristotle capitalized on virtue having to be a practicing and ongoing trait individuals must strive to achieve to be in good character. “For individuals to be fully ethical, they must constantly practice being good in a way that they form the habits and traits of a person of good moral character.” (University, 2016) For an individual to have good virtue one must practice the personality trait which would make him have goodness. For example; in our scenario the brother who has contracted herpes from past vice of excess of sexual self-indulgence he is now faced with meeting a woman he believes may be the one he will marry. Instead of not practicing within the golden mean and having the virtue of temperance he may have been able to of avoided contracting the sexually transmitted disease. Sexuality was the example used in the text book as being the most powerful human weakness one must control. Another example...
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...1. Discuss the following case in terms of virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. Can you identify examples of each (or their opposites) in the case study as written? Where and by whom? Explain your answers. Please do not get emotionally or personally involved with "finger pointing." Stay focused on virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. The sister is acting non malfeasance because she knows that her brother is hiding the truth from a person he loves. She knows that if he really loved her, looked at her as someone he wants to marry and be with forever then he wouldn’t lie to her. She knows that he should be honest with himself and allow his girlfriend to make the call on if she wants to stay with him or not. His dishonestly isn’t fair to her. She also knows that if she exposes her brother then he will feel betrayed and hurt. She is basically caught between a rock and a hard place, her loyalty is torn between her brother and someone she calls a friend. The brother and sister would be classified as virtue, but I believe the brother more due to the fact that he has to struggle between what’s the moral thing to do. He knows he’s a good person but at the same time lying and deceiving is bad and can jeopardize his relationship with his girlfriend. If he loved her deeply like he said he would be honest with her and except her decision. 2. How should each person in the case (brother and sister) handle his or her situation moving forward? Explain how non-malfeasance and virtue...
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...SEGi University College SUBJECT : BUSINESS ETHICHS SUBJECT CODE : BUSS 4053 COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT (50%) SUBMISSION DEADLINE : APRIL 29 2013 NAME : NGUYEN HONG HANH ID NUMBER : SCM-021587 FACULTY : OPTOMETRY AND VISION SCIENCE (HONS) INTRODUCTION This document is designed as an introduction to thinking ethically. This provide not only the basis definition of Ethics, but also how to approach and apply it on the real life. Question 1 Some people said that: “Ethics is the same as feelings” “Ethics and religious beliefs is the same thing” “Ethics is not different from laws” “Ethics follow the society accepts” “Ethics is science” All of these definition is NOT true. These replies for these question going to define WHAT ETHIC IS NOT. Question 2 There are five approach is being critically evaluated in this question. The Utilitarian Approach The Rights Approach The Fairness or Justice Approach The Common Good Approach The Virtue Approach Question 3 We all have to make decision on daily basis. It appear everyday in our life, force us to deal with it in our job… So what should we think when a moral issue show up? What should we consider? What to think and what to do? These question going to analyse the problem, shape a framework for ethical decision making by these four step: Get the facts. Evaluate Alternative actions. Make a Decision and...
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...Description Modify Instructions Add Question Here Multiple Choice 0 points Modify Remove Question Research has shown that ______ detect most frauds. Answer Auditors Customers Vendors Employees Add Question Here Multiple Choice 0 points Modify Remove Question All of the following are methods that organization can adopt to proactively eliminate fraud opportunities EXCEPT: Answer Accurately identifying sources and measuring risks. Implementing appropriate preventative and detective controls. Creating widespread monitoring by employees. Eliminating protections for whistle blowers. Add Question Here Multiple Choice 0 points Modify Remove Question Audits, public record searches, and net worth calculations are used to gather what type of evidence in fraud investigation? Answer Testimonial Forensic Documentary Observational Add Question Here Multiple Choice 0 points Modify Remove Question Which of the following is NOT a part of the evidence square? Answer Management evidence Documentary evidence Testimonial evidence Physical evidence Add Question Here Multiple Choice 0 points Modify Remove Question All of the following factors can be associated with high levels of fraud and detract from a positive work environment EXCEPT: Answer top management that does not pay attention to behavior of employees. lack of recognition of job performance. unrealistically low...
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...more consequential instance, misinforming storm troopers about the whereabouts of a hidden family during the Nazi occupation of Europe was an honorable and courageous deception. Honesty is not a wholly detached moral virtue demanding strict allegiance at all times. Compassion, diplomacy, and life-threatening circumstances sometimes require a departure from the entire unadulterated truth. Some vocations seem to demand occasional deception for success or survival. Politicians, for example, are especially hard-pressed to tell the truth consistently. Perhaps this is because, as George Orwell once observed, the very function of political speech is to hide, soften, or misrepresent difficult truths. Orwell was clearly skeptical about any expectation to the contrary. In “Politics and the English Language,” he put it this way: “Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Although in this case Orwell himself may have been guilty of overstatement for purposes of rhetorical effect, his claim cannot be totally dismissed. It would be naïve (or cynical) for anyone in today’s world to act shocked whenever a politician tries to hide the real truth from the public. For ordinary citizens, keeping up with the daily news means a constant process of speculating about what the politicians really meant by what they said and...
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...Alexis Ivery Peter Dlugos Eastern Philosophy September 29, 2014 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say “Honesty is the best policy”, or at least that’s how the saying goes. For centuries people have been taught that honesty is a trait of high value. While that may be true, when given the chance to keep lying or come clean, more often than not people will choose to hide behind their falsities rather than risk being exposed by the truth. People lie all the time, for self-enhancement or to simply avoid embarrassment or punishment. Growing up, I was always told to be honest; it was strictly enforced in my house. Being dishonest would always result in a consequence; I remember feeling an urge to tell the truth. My parents always emphasized being truthful with them; they even went as far as telling me that when you lie to your parents, you get canker sores. As I got older, of course I lied to them every now or then so I guess my perception of honesty has changed. I believe that honesty is fundamental to building and maintaining any relationship, however there are times when honesty isn’t the best option. I try to be as honest as possible with people but I know that I probably tell the whole truth about 30% of the time. Going into this exercise, I knew that I would have to make a concerted effort to think of different responses I could give people. My first opportunity to test out my ability to tell the truth was presented to me when my mother came into my room to ask...
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...achievement at the highest level, expects academic honesty to be a core value for all its students, parents, and staff. By making the choice to enroll in an alternative program, our students (and/or their parents or legal guardians) have taken charge of their education and demonstrated a genuine desire to fulfill their academic potential. Cheating, plagiarizing, or other acts of academic dishonesty are directly counter to the principles of academic excellence and harm most those students who engage in such activities—they cheat themselves of the opportunity to fully develop their intellectual abilities. Our Honor Code serves to reinforce our students’ commitment to academic excellence, and all students must sign this Honor Code as part of the Connections enrollment process. As a Connections student, I know that academic honesty is critical to my own success, as well as to the mission of my School. I also understand that an Honor Code is, by its nature, limited not only to those situations spelled out in the code, but includes the spirit of honesty and ethics implied by the written code. I agree that I will uphold not only the letter of this code but also its implied intent of ongoing commitment to full academic honesty. I agree that I will … • never submit work of any kind that is not my own, nor ever give my work to other students to submit as their own. • never post exam or quiz answers on the Internet or in other public places, nor use answers from posted exams or quizzes. • never provide...
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...Jeremy Halladay INFT 101 6 March 2014 Academic Honesty Academic honesty has been an ever growing problem within the education community. It starts from grade school and continues on through the rest of the student’s lives as well as the work place. No more than ever before has there been more pressure to perform at a higher level in school and some students will go to extreme lengths to just get a decent grade. As you well know academic honesty is a big thing when completing assignments and test in college. But honesty comes down to the core of who we are, from are family’s to are work place. It creates an invisible untrustworthy factor between the student and professor. It basically comes down to cheating, which means to use another person’s ideas or answers for your own. It’s also known as intellectual theft. Academic honesty is not a victimless crime, and you may wonder why, but it has many factors. Taking credit for something that isn’t yours or stealing it can actually put you in jail. Students these days have a lot of pressure on them, which causes them to resort to desperate measures. Some other reasons is because they lack the knowledge or skill for the course or they are just plain lazy. One last thing is that they didn’t even know they were cheating at all because they didn’t use proper citation. One thing I have learned from this article is that, I didn’t know it was as widespread as I initially thought, which really surprised me. The conclusions of the article...
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...campaign title is “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which came from the medicine drug “ANESTHESIA”. It aims to “inject” or to put into the mind and in the heart of the students the value and importance of honesty during elections in order to reduce “pain” or to reduce the dishonesties and lies to happen during election. Elections have been practiced a long time ago; it’s one way for people to exercise their suffrage to vote to appoint their desired leaders. Philippines as a democratic country used election to appoint officials like senators and president. But with every election, news about vote buying, malicious tampering of votes, fraud and other dishonest acts increases. These kinds of acts are a start of an impending problem called corruption. To prevent corruption to take place, we need to take action first on our elections and make it clean and honest. Our team has come up to a campaign called “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which aims to increase honest individuals and young voters to stop dishonest acts during school and nationwide elections. Our goal is to: 1. To provide awareness about honesty to students within 6 months 2. To teach the true value and importance of honesty during elections within 6 months 3. To increase by 10% the students who will value and practice honesty during elections every year after the campaign is implemented 4. To decrease dishonesty and corruption by 10% every year after the campaign is implemented The major target audiences of the IMC Campaign...
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...Honesty in the Academic Environment Jasmine Mix RDG 504 January 18, 2013 Jessica Montgomery Honesty in the Academic Environment Introduction Six year old Kylie is asked by her teacher “Why did you place the pencils in your backpack and take the pencils home?” Very unsure of the appropriate response, Kylie simply says “ I didn’t.” The teacher then goes over to the child’s book bag to take out the pencils that are accused of to be missing. Kylie then states that she must have accidently placed the pencil in the book bag after completing the end of the day assignment while packing up to go home. Regardless of the reason the action occurred, the teacher proceeds to have a thorough discussion regarding the topic of honesty and goes forth to discipline the child in school as well as contact her parent at home to make them aware of the situation and to recommend they generously speak to their student so that the behavior is not repeated again. In this paper I look to explore the different levels of honesty and evaluate if it is as black and white as it seems. When is it Lying According to Merriam-Webster the definition of honesty is: 1. The quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. 2. Truthfulness, sincerity or frankness. 3. Freedom from deceit or fraud. The commitment required to realize these simple terms is more clearly implied in a second definition, drawn from Funk & Wagnails Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms and Prepositions: "One who is honest...
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...Answers to the listed questions. #1 Question: Should Billy call his friend on forthcoming offer? Any other suggested actions before decision? Reasons for recommendations. Answer: If there isn’t a confidentiality breech, then yes Billy should call his friend. The suggested actions should be honesty and be upfront to both parties, such as Call Tick and Check and ask for an extension, and then call Foot and Balance and ask about the offer status. The reasons behind this is to maintain your honesty, reliability, and integrity. #2 Question: Is it ever right to back out of a promise? Answer: Yes it is okay to back out of a promise if the end result causes harm. Ethical reasoning being used is reliability, because there is a moral duty to keep promises, but one must avoid bad-faith excuses and unwise commitments. #3 Question: Identify stakeholders and their interests. Answer: Both companies would be a stakeholder because both companies have a business interest of obtaining an ethical employee. However, Billy in this case, would just have self-interest rather than being a stakeholder. #4 Question: What are the alternatives using ethical reasoning? Answer: Two alternatives would be conformity and self-interest. Conformity in this case would allow Billy to keep his promise to Tick and Check, and then explain the situation to Foot and Balance to keep good relations. Self- interest in this case would have Billy accept the Foot and Balance offer, and then hope...
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...Multiple Choice 1. The term _____ refers to an individual’s personal beliefs about whether a decision, behavior, or action is right or wrong. a. value b. culture c. ethics d. religion e. expectations (c; easy; p. 119) 2. Fruit juice suppliers in South America rely heavily on _____. a. elderly employees b. child labor c. female workers d. illegal immigrant workers e. none of the above (b; moderate; p. 117) 3. What ethical abuses have independent contractors manufacturing shoes for Nike been accused of in past years? a. child labor abuse b. unsafe working conditions c. violations of local regulations d. all of the above (d; easy; p. 117) 4. Ethical beliefs are _____ in nature. a. societal b. regional c. familial d. individual e. cultural (d; difficult; p. 119) 5. Which of the following is not a factor that influences one’s ethics? a. family b. peers c. observation of others d. religious beliefs e. all of the above influence ethical beliefs (e; easy; p. 119) 6. Behavior that does not conform to generally accepted social norms is considered _____. a. ethical b. unethical c. illegal d. unregulated e. none of the above (b; easy; p. 119) 7. All of the following are ethical...
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...inevitable, especially in college and corporate world. It is something that should be faced head on to avoid further temptations producing a path of lying and cheating. If the desires are brought to immediate attention, will the answers to the temptations be more acceptable if the final results reveal actions of immorality? Or will the identity of cheating cause the individuals, especially college students, to be viewed as an unethical human being living a life of immoral activity. Within this paper, one will discuss the existence of cheating and corporate adults and...
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... | | |Skills for Learning in an Information Age | Copyright © 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to learning in an information-rich society. Students develop strategies for successful distance learning, time management, and for managing the abundance of information available in today’s society. Students also explore the appropriate use of information in an academic environment. Specific topics for the course include computing skills for distance learning, online library use, academic honesty, and the development of effective study skills. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Carter, C., Bishop, J., & Kravits, S. L. (2011)....
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...ENGLISH – STEP BY WICKED STEP SAMPLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Choose one character that you like and give your reasons why you like the character. From the novel 'Step By Wicked Step' by Anne Fine, I like Claudia from the story the Green Pyjamas. I like Claudia because she is kind, loyal and she can be very mature and wise. Claudia is a very kind girl. During her father's birthday party, Claudia wears her green pyjamas given by her father's girlfriend, Stella. She decides to do this because she feels that the guests in the party are very rude when they refuse to talk to Stella. They act like Stella is invisible and Claudia feels angry because Stella is actually a very nice person. Other than that, Claudia is also a loyal daughter to her mother.She knows that her mother hates the fact that her father is happy with a new woman in his life so she pretends that she is unhappy when she has to go to her father's house. Claudia also refuses to accept Stella's kindness because she wants to show that she is loyal to her mother. Lastly, Claudia shows that she is very mature and wise. Claudia feels that the guests for her father's birthday party are very rude. They do not want to acknowledge that Stella is her father's new love by giving her a cold shoulder during the party. Claudia is very angry with all those immature adults so she decides to give all of them a lesson by wearing her new green pyjamas and showing it off in front of the guess, hinting that...
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