IT590 Assignment Unit 6: Final Project The evaluation ethics
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Kaplan University
Abstract
Compile research which has completed during this course. Reflect upon how what you have learned will change the way in which you conduct yourself in your career. Determine what laws will affect you? Determine what ethical theories will dictate the way in which you make decisions? Think about a situation in which you may be conducting business with people in other cultures. How might your beliefs differ from theirs? Use examples and/or case studies to demonstrate your position.
IT590 Assignment Unit 6: Final Project The evaluation ethics
Why did utilitarianism become one of the most popular ethical theories? Several factors contributed to its popularity. Most important was the fact that, it is a relatively simple ethical system to apply. Actions are moral merely by you have to calculate the good consequences and bad consequences that will result from a particular action and weighting on a scale. If the good outweighs the bad, then the action is moral. The next factor is that most people are already schooled in using a form of utilitarianism in their everyday decision making. A lot of the decisions that are non-moral decisions are based upon consequences. On the line to get in for the gas pump, we try to find the quickest line so we can get be on our way faster. We mostly analyze our financial decisions buy with (writing checks, store card, credit card, etc.) using a utilitarian calculus of cost and benefits. Making the leap to using it for moral decisions using utilitarianism seems like a natural extension of our daily decision-making procedures.
The utilitarianism is divided into two parts the Act utilitarianism and the Rule utilitarianism. The Act utilitarianism is calculus calculations all the time in every moral decision even if you have done it before. The