...Professor George Gonzalez College Student Ethics The college years are marked by social changes and behavioral experimentation which may increase risk of suicidal thoughts. There seems to be a pathway for the development of suicidal thoughts between two established suicide risk factors, loneliness and drug use, As suicide is the third leading cause of death among individuals aged 15 to 24 years. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2010) Within that same age group, the suicide rate has tripled since 1950. College students may be at particular risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior, especially since it is the second most common death among that same social group. We often wonder what are the triggers that lead the students to commit such acts? Students are put into a brand new environment. Most students often deal with being away from home for their first times, put into dorms with complete strangers and work under extreme pressures. The biggest take-away is the abrupt transition. Students are often left with dealing their own finances for the first time in their lives. Now you add the large college workload, personal struggles such as family or relationship problems, pressures to succeed, academic failure, financial stableness and you have a deadly mixture. Suicide just does not come when a person goes to college, it develops through the student’s childhood and life. This sense of helplessness goes to show how much some students consider their lives worthy of respect...
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...Role of ethics is so important for the overall success of an undergraduate student. Though ethics are not practiced like rules and regulations or law and order but it plays a major role in the society. According to Oxford Dictionary the word ethics is described as a set of accepted norms or values that enhances the quality of work and safe guard dignity of a professional. If someone doesn’t stand along with ethics, it never becomes a punishable event but could create many problems. According to (apa.org, 2014) punctuality, time management, morality, integrity are some of the ethical factors which will be discussed below. In the case of undergraduate students adhere to ethics could be benefited in many ways and it is for his or her present and future both. Starting from being punctual, for an example if someone get late for his/her lectures when he/her enter the classroom it will disturb everyone. So by attending the lectures on time will save the time of his/her and others as well. Some students rush at the last moment when submitting their assignments as they haven’t completed it by the given time. But if they are punctual they won’t get late to submit their assignments as they have managed the time properly. Students who have a good morality always try to stick to ethics and don’t try to cheat on exams. But the students who try to cheat on exams lack morality and integrity which means being honest and truthful as reported in Yahoo Contributor Network...
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...Ethics Case Study - Student Gets a Better Job Offer Step 1: Recognize: Define the ethical problem from all perspectives. • The student did not tell company B after accepting to work there that he already accepted to work company A. • The student did not notify career services office about any of this. Step 2: Clarify the Facts • The student agreed to work for company A at the beginning, because he did not hear from company B (yet). • The student later was accepted to work for company B; since this was his first choice he accepted that offer as well. • The student went back on his words and declined company A after already accepting it. • Career services office only found out about this after the student had reneged upon the job offer. Step 3: Create Alternatives • The student will not be permitted to work in company A or B. • The student will go work for company A, as he approved that offer first. • The student will work for company B, but will never be allowed to use career services again. • The student will be kicked out of school. Step 4: Evaluate Alternatives (short/long term effects) • Short term: student will not have a job Long term: the student might not be able to find another job that year but will learn an important lesson for life. • Short term: student will work for company A and be disappointed since he is not fulfilling his true ability. Long term: student will realize that what he did was the ethically correct choice. • Short term:...
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...Running head: Ethics and the College Student 1 The Ethics and College Student Title Page: BY MAURICE M. OWENS ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to see the college students’ view of ethics. There was enough evidence to say that college students’ perceive ethics instruction, and those who teach it, to be relevant and beneficial in shaping their own ethical behaviors. Students’ attitudes towards cheating is measured by their perception of cheating in high school, college, and non-major classes. The use of technology has an impact on college ethics since it is easier to cheat in online/hybrid classes and when some kind of technology is used in a course. College students believe that they are living in an ethical campus environment, where their faculty members are mostly ethical in nature and that it is never to late to learn about ethics in college. The Ethics and College Student Title Page: 2 Ethics is truly and important asset within today’s society, there are so many ways you can define ethics. I will say that to me ethics is about your upbringing, starting from the day you were born. Ethics will keep together and organization or it will dismantle and organization, you must enforce structure and guidelines. There are three strong principles when we talk about students and ethics. I call this (R, A, O) Responsibility, Accountability and Ownership. Students must be Responsible and withhold the obligations and the integrity of the school in which...
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...ETHICS Ethics “The discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligation” (Webster, 2011). Ethics can be applied to every aspect of life the way an individual should or should not deal with any given situation. This paper will cover how ethics is relevant in academics, law enforcement, and the insurance industry. ACADEMICS The academic ethic is a learned behavior; however, it is often argued that it is developed over a person life span. “The daily practice of ethics promotes an ethical culture and prepares students for important decisions while they are students and later as business leaders” (Jude & DePree, 2010). Ethical behavior is very important to everyday decisions within the academic or workplace. Ethics have put students to the test when making decisions of cheating on a test or plagiarism. These decisions made by the students can damage their school record and even their name within the student’s school. This is also can arise signals of future misconduct as a professional. The College Student Journal conducted a study and “found that students who possessed an academic ethic earned higher grades than those who did not possess one. It discovered that students with an academic ethic were less likely to commit acts of academic dishonesty and earned higher grade point averages" (43; 1). The study also discovered "that woman was more likely to possess an academic ethic than men" (43; 1). “The same is true of deans and faculty. And deans...
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...Accounting and Ethics DO ETHICAL STANDARDS EXIST IN ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENTS? Purpose: This analytical report is a required assignment in Kimmerly Brady’s Business 205 course. Due to time constraints the primary data (survey) required for the report were gathered in a limited fashion. A survey was developed, an a procedure was considered; however, the responses are the results of only ten collected surveys. The responses are only included to demostrate a n understanding of primary data usage. The purpose of this report is to convey the message that ethics are the foundation of the accounting profession. In order to maintain discipline & order in the professional realm, rules of ethics are not satisfactory enough to ensure the integrity of Accountants. Education and training in ethical matters should be mandatory for Accountants; evaluation and monitoring of their adherence to these rules is climacteric for maintaining standards. Ethical codes of conduct and compliance of these codes should be required in today’s accounting firms for honorability to exist. CPA’s are licensed practitioners, who as Accountants express opinions about financial statements. The globalization of business operations and technological advances have radically changed how accountants work. New ethical issues have been raised by this ...
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...Sci Eng Ethics (2011) 17:597–605 DOI 10.1007/s11948-010-9213-7 Teaching Ethics to Engineers: Ethical Decision Making Parallels the Engineering Design Process Bridget Bero • Alana Kuhlman Received: 14 January 2010 / Accepted: 18 May 2010 / Published online: 4 June 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract In order to fulfill ABET requirements, Northern Arizona University’s Civil and Environmental engineering programs incorporate professional ethics in several of its engineering courses. This paper discusses an ethics module in a 3rd year engineering design course that focuses on the design process and technical writing. Engineering students early in their student careers generally possess good black/white critical thinking skills on technical issues. Engineering design is the first time students are exposed to ‘‘grey’’ or multiple possible solution technical problems. To identify and solve these problems, the engineering design process is used. Ethical problems are also ‘‘grey’’ problems and present similar challenges to students. Students need a practical tool for solving these ethical problems. The stepwise engineering design process was used as a model to demonstrate a similar process for ethical situations. The ethical decision making process of Martin and Schinzinger was adapted for parallelism to the design process and presented to students as a step-wise technique for identification of the pertinent ethical issues, relevant moral theories, possible...
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...Undergraduates in Discussions about Ethics in Computing Brian R. von Konsky Jim Ivins Susan J. Gribble Curtin University of Technology Department of Computing Software Engineering Education Research Group GPO Box U1987, PERTH WA Australia bvk@cs.curtin.edu.au Abstract o Third-year computing students enrolled in a software engineering subject were introduced to the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Code of Ethics in the context of a computing professional’s obligation to manage quality, safety and reliability. Following an introductory lecture, case study scenarios were interactively discussed during class. Immediately afterwards, students were surveyed to assess their self-perceived and actual ability to apply the ACS Code to another similar scenario. Of the 68 students who gave their informed consent to participate in the study, 34% reported being fully comfortable with applying the ACS Code of Ethics, while 63% were somewhat comfortable. In justifying multiple-choice options for dealing with a new case study scenario, 37% provided a good justification for their choice, 48% provided a poor justification, and 15% provided no justification. A further qualitative analysis of the responses suggests the need for formal assessment of ethics in computing education, and highlights the importance of improving the perceived relevance of ethics to students and the need for in-depth treatment of ethical issues. Keywords: Ethics, Teaching and Learning, Engagement ...
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...Ethics and ethical theories: a road map for teaching ethics in business schools Joan Fontrodona (IESE Business School, Spain), Manuel Guillén (University of Valencia, Spain), and Alfredo Rodríguez-Sedano (University of Navarre, Spain) Introduction A three-dimensional framework to explain ethical theories Ethical approaches of business firms Teaching ethics experiences using this framework Discussion of the teaching experiences Conclusions References 1 2 6 9 10 12 13 Introduction This paper tries to contribute, in some way, to the urgent need recently warned by Benedict XVI: “the university, for its part, must never lose sight of its particular calling to be a "universitas" in which the various disciplines, each in its own way, are seen as part of a greater unum. How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!”1 This seems to be a challenge for both, Catholic and non-Catholic universities. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework that helps to conceptualize ethics and to clarify the characteristics and limits of the different ethical theories. In other words, students without philosophical background will find here a synthetic “road map” of ethical approaches. This framework has been previously published in a book in Spain2. In this paper, authors will describe the model and discuss how it has been successfully tested...
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...The Effectiveness of Business Ethics in Education and Today’s Workplace October 13th, 2012 Introduction What do Bernard Madoff, Kenneth Lay and Rob Blagojevich all have in common? They all operated with no apparent ethical behavior even though each had received educational backgrounds in which ethical business practices were taught. As L. Zingales states, “While every firm can have its bad apples, when these apples are at the top, it suggests that a company has either a corrupt culture or a defective selection process, or both.” (Zingales, Jul 16, 2012). In Madoffs case, the Ponzi scheme had been going on since the early 1990’s (Morrissey, Aug 11, 2009). Under the direction of Kenneth Lay, Enron- once one of the largest companies in America- collapsed in bankruptcy and ruined the lives of thousands of people (McLean & Elkind, May 18, 2006). The Chicago Tribune reported that the Illinois House of Representatives was sending to the Illinois Senate a “13 point article of impeachment-a political form of indictment-alleging Blagojevich has abused the power if his office” (Pearson & Long, Jan 9, 2009). The purpose of this paper is to gauge the Effectiveness of Business Ethics in Education and Today’s Workplace. As business students they graduate from the university setting and enter the business environment they study the ethics in their workplace culture and often find that educational ethics training does not have any value in the work world. “Studies...
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...Ethics in Accounting Linh Pham University of Mount Olive Author Note This research paper was prepared for ACC483, taught by Professor Henry Singletary. Ethics in Accounting Ethics in Accounting has recently attracted a lot of attention in the field of business. Based on my knowledge, ethics in accounting are the behavior or actions that doesn’t allow for intentionally inaccurate and false in accounting practices. This is quite complex because we not only have to follow the accounting rules, but also need to make decisions based on the moral or ethics principles. However, ethics varies by cultures, individual perceptions, religion. For example, what seems about right in one country could be totally wrong in another country. Or what you think is right may actually be wrong. Therefore, it’s really difficult for us to follow the same ethics principle and apply those principles to ethics in accounting practices. In this paper, I will bring a thorough discussion of how to make accounting behaviors become more ethical. Ethics in Accounting is what we really need to take into our consideration in this era, especially after the financial and accounting failures of many big firms such as Enron, WorldCom, AOL, Global Crossing, Tyco, Lehman and AIG. As a matter of fact, experts and analysts are trying to find out the root causes of these failures. It is also significant to realize that more and more fraud cases are detected in this era. Therefore, there is a big question that...
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...INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COURSE STRUCTURE COURSE: MGT3219 Business Ethics (4 cr.) PREREQUISITE(S): None COURSE DESCRIPTION: This module provides students with sound understanding of the moral principles that governs corporate, group and individual responsibilities in everyday business operations LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The aims of this course are to enable students to: 1. Introduce students to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business 2. Impart the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions making 3. Identify the moral issues involved in the management of specific problem areas in business 4. Provide an understanding of the social and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise LEARNING OUTCOMES: Successful students will be able to: 1. Discuss the importance of practicing ethics in business 2. Describe the relationship between justice and different types of economic distribution 3. Discuss the legitimate and illegitimate influence of organisation on their employees and to link the possible moral issues in personnel policies and procedures 4. Integrate the concept of informed consent with various methods of obtaining information, privacy 5. Assess moral issues such as loyalty to company, conflict of interest, abuse of official position, insider trading, bribes, kickbacks, receiving gifts and entertainment that can influence...
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...The high cost of college, student’s work ethic, and their lack of preparedness are all factors that are causing American students to have higher drop our rates compared to other countries. A study done at Harvard University showed that nearly half of America’s college students drop out before receiving a degree. The reason for these students to be dropping has to do with failing. They are not able to keep their grades high enough to even receive a degree. As stated earlier there are many factors that contribute to a student’s success in college. One of the reasons why students fail college is due to the fact that many teenagers are simply not ready for the rigorous schedule that comes with being a college student. It’s a major transition from high school to college. Students leave there home, high school friends, and are taken out of their comfort zone. They are forced to balance their schoolwork and other activities on top of making major decisions that will affect their career. In some cases, students just aren’t mentally, emotionally or academically ready to succeed in...
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...“Work Ethic: Do New Employees Mean New Work Values?” 2010 Journal of Managerial Issues, 22 (1), 10-34 Raymond K. Van Ness, Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany, Kimberly Melinsky, Ph.D. ABD, The College of Saint Rose, Cheryl Buff, Ph.D. Siena College, and Charles F. Seifert, Ph.D. Siena College ABSTRACT This study compares and contrasts the individual dimensions of work ethic of graduating college and university students to those of workforce professionals. The Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile (MWEP) is used to operationalize seven dimensions of work ethic. The findings indicate that while students and workforce professionals differ within the individual dimensions, quantitatively, they have the same overall work ethic. Variances within the dimensions of work ethic may have important implications for corporate managers. Keywords: Work Ethic, Work Values, Dimensions of Work Ethic “Work Ethic: Do New Employees Mean New Work Values?” INTRODUCTION The concept of work ethic has evolved from the writings of the early 20th century scholar, Max Weber (Weber, 1904-1905), who has been frequently credited with contributing to the success of capitalism in western society with what became known as the Protestant work ethic (PWE) (Hirschfeld and Field, 2000; Hill and Petty, 1995; Kalberg, 1996; Chusmir and Koberg, 1988). Weber highlighted the value of work commitment and raised questions as to why some people place a greater importance on work and appear more conscientious than...
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...[pic] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering EGN 2030-Ethics and Legal Aspects in Engineering (Fall 2014) FEEDS Course Description: Codes of ethics, professional responsibilities and rights, law and engineering, contracts, torts, and evidence. Course Objectives 1. To gain an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. 2. To learn to work with other class members as part of a multi-disciplinary team. 3. To apply knowledge of ethical concepts in a practical sense. 4. To understand the impact of engineering problems/solutions in a national and global context. 5. To understand and incorporate ethical precepts into present and future professional assignments. Place/Time: EC 2420; 6:25-7:40 pm on Friday. Instructor: Jeffrey H. Greenfield, Ph.D., P.E., Adjunct Professor Telephone: 561-682-2989 (work); 954-804-3397 (cell); E-mail: jgreenfi@fiu.edu, Office Place and Hours: EC 3660 or classroom; 6:25 – 7:40 pm Friday and by appointment. Textbook: Harris, C. E., Pritchard, M. S., Rabins, M. J., James, R., and Englehardt, E. Engineering Ethics, Cases and Concepts, (5th Edition), Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014, ISBN 978-1-133-93468-4 Grading: 1) Final examination. No make-up examination will be offered unless it is an emergency excused by a medical doctor. Final exam is worth 40% of grade. FEEDS students must take final exam at scheduled time in class. 2) Group paper/presentation...
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