...u05a1 Parameters of Ethical Decision Making Kathleen J Higgins Ethical Theories and Principle are decision making tools that managers may use especially during ethical dilemma. There are five common ethical decision making approaches that can assist manager based upon what is good in each situation. Utilitarianism or consequentialism, as just what its term “consequentialism” means. This paradigm is developed [originally] by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John S. Mill (1806-1873). Judges one’s action based on the maximums of the good in the world. In this approach, the manager evaluates how the decision will affect [directly] the employee(s) and others. The managers identify the potential positive and potential negative consequences. If it will results “to the greatest good and for the greatest number,” the manager using the utilitarian approach is feasibly will make dubious decision. Utilitarian ideology is that it is ethical if the result will only give the “greatest advantages and benefits, and to the greatest number of people.” The theory seems to point out a situation in which it seems to provide the wrong answer to an ethical dilemma. I think of Dr. Kevorkian a good example using this approach. As this approach contemplates both bad and good, utilitarian’s rationale in this situation was to stop the pain for the suffering patient and maybe stop the financial...
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...INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES U05A1 PSYC3500 LEARNING AND COGNITION CAPELLA UNIVERSITY PROFESOR ULDALL TAMARA BARR FEBUARY 15, 2015 REFERENCES: Terry, W. S. (2009). Learning and memory: Basic principles, processes, and procedures. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Personality can be defines as an individuals characteristics mode of thinking, feeling, and acting. Usually personality is describes in terms of some relatively stable and enduring traits, such as extraversion, emotional stability, openness to new experiences, impulsiveness, or conscientiousness (McCrae & DeCosta, 1986). Personality becomes very relevant to learning if variations in one or another trait are associated to with different behaviors or cognitions that affect learning. The two traits that have been studied concerning this is extraversion and anxiety (introversion). Io9.com/the-science-behind-extroversion-and-introversion-1282059791 Extroversion and introversion are recognized as core aspects of people’s personality. Extroverts are thought of as those people who are outspoken, outgoing, and concerned with what’s going on in the outer world. In addition extroverts are talkative, open and show emotions, and act before thinking. Introverts are quiet, reflective, and focused on inner (mental) world. Introverts also tend to keep emotions to themselves, think before acting, and like to spend time alone. According to Psychologist Carl Jung, the difference in the two personalities has to do with the amount of energy...
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...Regina Slaughter U05a1 Brief Writing/Explaining English1000 Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students? By: Eric Boese It is true that technology and educational resources have dramatically improved over the years. In the article “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students?” Eric Boese believed that standardized test use for students in the school systems are being used for the wrong reasons. Boese argues that the students are not being taught the knowledge and skills to help them merge properly out into society, but instead being drilled on how to pass the state’s test. The standardized tests scores represent the school as a whole and do not help identify the needs of the students individually. The pressure that is placed on the teachers to drill the students on material that is on the test and how to take it, eliminate time from what the students should be learning at their grade level, says Boese. He also believes a solution can be reached, but the source of the problem has to be located first such as finding a level of testing that will challenge the students, but not overwhelm them. In response to Eric Boese essay “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students?” I was not aware of the stress the students go through about test that they take once or twice a year. I have to agree with him on the test not really helping the students individually because at the beginning of the year my daughter took the test and scored below average...
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...U05a1: The Importance of Coaching MBA 6220: Appreciative Coaching Dr. Sara Orem Frenchie Smalls November 13, 2011 Coaching in this new era is a very critical leadership practice. There are so many changes and circumstances in today’s business world that has competitive pressures. In the twenty-first century stronger business can be built, with effective training and leadership skills. The success of our business world to day lies in the hands of our leaders. The key is the talent and know how of a leader and the dedication of its people. In order for business to prosper and survive in the twenty first century they must find individuals who want to lead people and those who can take up the reins of leadership for tomorrow. Today’s leaders must be able to manage themselves in a global environment. They must be capable of interacting with customers, employees, suppliers. Today’s leaders must understand their own reactions to change and transitions in order to coach others. Identifying your own personal flaws will help others in the process. To establish a good coaching relationship three things need to be established: commitment, rapport, and collaboration. Both coach and coachee must agree to the coaching process. Coaching addresses specific personal projects, business opportunities or general conditions in the coachee’s personal life or workplace. Coaching services includes value clarifications, strength analysis, brainstorming, creation of plans...
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...U05a1- Character, Dignity, and Self-Respect This paper will explain the character, dignity, and self-respect demonstrated in the movie “Glory” by Edward Zwick. The story is based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unity of the U.S. Army to be made up entirely of African-American men as told from the point of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, its commanding officer during the American Civil War. Captain Robert Gould Shaw leads a company of Union soldiers from a Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in an attack on Confederate troops at the Battle of Antietam of September 17, 1862 (Davies, 2001). His regiment suffers many losses. Shaw is wounded and later loses consciousness. He is awakened by a black gravedigger name John Rawlins and is sent to a hospital. While at the hospital, Shaw is told that President Lincoln is on the verge of passing the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in rebel held territory. While on leave in Boston, Shaw is promotes to Colonel and is given command of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. It is the first all-black regiment of the U.S. Army. The first character to show ethics based on Epictetus was Shaw’s friend and educated black man named Thomas Searles; Searles is the first black man to volunteer in the 54th Regiment. Epictetus believed that even though he could not control what occurred outside of himself, he could control how he responded (Sommers & Sommers, 2013). The fact that Thomas volunteered...
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...The team's project charter, developed through individual team efforts and team collaboration, should be submitted by all team members in their individual assignment area, u05a1. Each team member must also attach a separate document in that same submission that briefly describes his or her specific contribution to this assignment. The instructor will evaluate this assignment using the Project Charter Scoring Guide included in the Resources list below. In this first team assignment, the team will submit a project charter that details: The goal of the project. Conduct research to expand NewwDeal into three key areas: Mobile Applications, Wireless Security, and Cloud Computing. The intended business impact. Business Impact is: The consequences to the business (financial, reputational or operational) that could result Increased market share Customer Satisfaction The team members and their roles. For Week 5, team 3 member roles are: Mark Wetzbarger – Group Lead / PM Marlowe Jones – Deputy Lead / PM & Research Coronda Wilson - Complier Sudharma Thikkavarapu - Researcher Latoria Wilson - Researcher The scope of the project. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/management_concepts/project_scope_definition.htm http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/project-scope Should we have a scope statement, vice a scope in terms of time & money? Thoughts? The estimated cost. SWAG @ $100,000 The schedule, including the major milestones and a...
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...U05a1 Case Study - Informed Consent Informed consent is still an important part of health care. It is believed that informed consent helps foster open communication between medical professionals and patients, in addition to contributing to patient autonomy (Cooper, 2000). The field of health care ethics determines the right and wrong of actions based on a systematic analysis of the values and conflicts involved in the health system. Culture influences how people interpret health, illness, and treatment options. The values patients hold with respect to quality of life, death and dying, and the decision-making frameworks are used to discuss treatment options (Cooper, 2000). Informed consent is the authorization of a medical intervention by an individual. Disclosure is defined as the provision of all relevant information by the physician and the patient. In a multicultural society where many disparate values are held in respect to health care decision making, obtaining informed consent, poses some challenges (Cooper, 2000). There are many debates whether ethical principles are universal and that all cultures should be held accountable (Cooper, 2000). It seems that informed consent does not fall into the category of a universal ethic. The principles such as autonomy and respect for persons, do apply across different cultures. The issue is that autonomy itself and respect for individuals ought to be demonstrated are concepts that are influenced by cultural tradition...
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...Greenville Health System is a Level I Trauma Center located in the upstate region of South Carolina. The health system consists of many entities and is the largest non for profit healthcare system in South Carolina offering a variety of services (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). As a system GHS is rapidly growing and expanding its services to more and more communities in the region (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). While the system has always had a focus on providing excellent care the advent of Value Based Purchasing has place a renewed emphasis on providing the right care at the right time and ensuring the patients are receiving the excellent care they deserve. Greenville Health System has been in existence since 1912 and has grown in that time from a single free standing facility to an integrated delivery system with an academic medical center (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). The Greenville Health System mission as stated on their web site is to “Transform healthcare for the benefit of the people and communities we serve” (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). This health system has used both social media and the internet to reach out to the communities it serves as well as to the people it employees. Amongst the many ways it utilized the internet and social media are a robust web page, a Facebook page, electronic medical records, online employment opportunities, education for employees and the general public as well as transparently providing the public with budget and finance information (http://www...
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...Throughout this course, you study a variety of HR issues and learn about the various roles that HR plays in a successfully functioning organization. In order to facilitate your learning in this course, a course project that allows you to research various HR functions at an organization of your choice has been developed. You can then practically apply the information you have learned to the chosen environment. The organization you select should be of interest to you. It can be where you are currently employed, or wish to be employed. It can also be something that interests you (for example, coffee drinkers can select Starbucks). This must be an organization that is researchable as you need to gather and analyze a variety of information in order to complete the components of your project. If you select an organization with which you are currently associated, it is important to remember that the various analyses you make during the completion of your project must be based on facts that can be documented rather than your personal opinion as an employee. Each project component requires you to research a different aspect of HRM. In addition to gathering the requisite data from the organization of your choice, you are required to research and employ a minimum of four resources (per assignment) to support the content of each assignment. Examples of acceptable choices include informational interviews, scholarly journals, and white papers from professional organizations such as...
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...U05A1 Atha Executive Plan Human Resource Functional Area Accounting and Finance Functional Area Debra Marzett Instructor: Crystal Neumann Spring Quarter 2013 BUS3011 May 10, 2013 CONTENTS Executive Summary 4 Purpose Statement 5 Human Resource 5 Accounting and Finance 5 Goals and Activities 6 Human Resource 6 Accounting and Finance 7 Organizational Structure 8 Human Resource 8 Accounting and Finance: 9 Interview Questions 10 Human Resource Generalist 10 Accounting and Finance Analyst 11 Performance Standards 12 Human Resource 12 Accounting and Finance 13 Conclusion 14 References 15 Appendix I 16 a. Strategic Alignment Worksheet: Human Resource 16 1.0 Goals and Activities: 16 2.0 Interview Questions: 17 3.0 Purpose Statement: 18 4.0 Performance Standards: 18 b. Strategic Alignment Worksheet: Accounting and Finance 19 1.0 Goals and Activities 19 2.0 Interview Questions: 20 3.0 Purpose Statement: 20 4.0 Performance Standards: 20 Appendix II 22 a. Human Resource Organizational Chart: 22 b. Accounting and Finance Organizational Chart 23 Executive Summary The project is an executive plan prepare for Atha Corporation owner Mary Atha whose goal is to double the company’s sales in the next year. There is an overview of the Human Resource, Accounting, and Finance functional areas purpose statement and how each promotes trust, motivates, and supports collaboration. Incorporated in the plan is the evaluation of how the purpose, relevance, planning, decision-making and organizing influences...
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