Week 3 – Case Study LAWS 420 Professor Melinda Whitman 09/22/2013 What are the moral issues in this case? What ideals, obligations, and consequences must Carla Lombard consider? What rights, if any, are at stake? Will it make a difference whether Carla adopts a Kantian approach or a utilitarian approach to this situation? Over the years, this country has been confronted with many legal and ethical issues that surround the AIDs epidemic, and the workplace has certainly found itself at
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and markets piping for irrigation construction, infrastructure, and industry in 13 countries of Latin America. The company’s vision is “to be recognized as an organization that creates economic value by operating based on a framework incorporating ethics, efficiency and social responsibility, in a way that contributes to enhancing the life quality or life standards of people The company promotes the following values: * No discrimination * No child labor * Liberty of association * Compensation
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1 The American Red Cross Dr. Jack Huddleston Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Case July 21, 2013 2 1. Determine the impact of this event on ARC’s “benefits of business ethics” (employee commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, and bottom line). The American Red Cross (ARC), also identified as the “The Face of Recovery”, is a humanitarian organization that provides
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I have to make sure that I understand the difference between morals, values, and ethics. Values are something that we have learned from childhood. As a child we feed off the things our parents are doing as well as the influences of other adults surrounding us. Morals are believed to be the beliefs that we have developed based on the things that we value and how we feel that one should behave in any situation. Ethics is the way one behaves in a situation based on testing someone’s morals and values
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who was not legally responsible to make medical decisions for this patient. This nurse also withheld pertinent information regarding the knowledge of and stated in the Advanced Directive. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics Provision 1.4 The
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Gulati 15P201 Rahul Kasera 15P221 Soumitra Joysula 15P231 Values & Ethics in Organizations Values & Ethics in Organizations Contents 1. Background 1 2. The Concept of Ethics and Values 1 2.1. Values 1 2.2. Ethics 1 2.3. Role of Leadership in Organizational Ethics and Values formation 1 2.3.1 Moral Spill-over Effect 1 2.4. Organisational Ethics 1 2.4.1 Basic Elements of Organizational Ethics 1 3 Motivation theories for building ethical organisations 1 3.1 Stakeholder
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Business Ethics Alyssa N. Coverdale BUS 610 Professor Magdy Hussein September 22, 2014 Introduction: With business ethics there are many different things to consider. Some leaders have a very difficult time grasping the importance of ethics within their organization, while other even though they try to be ethical, still have some flaws. Even though things went ugly for Robert Nardelli I believe he stood his ground and made an example of
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immediately to do more than what's being done. One necessary and extremely important step is to address some of the causes. When trying to uncover some causes of something of this magnitude, many factors need to be considered. In his book Practical Ethics, Peter Singer addresses the issue of Relative
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Are so called bad apples the cause of ethical problems in organizations? Why or Why not? According to the bad apple theory, people are good or bad and organizations are powerless to change these folks. This bad apple idea16 is appealing in part because unethical behavior can then be blamed on a few individuals with poor character. Although it’s unpleasant to fire people, it’s relatively easier for organizations to search for and discard a few bad apples than to search for some organizational
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sensitivity toward social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. Striving for social responsibility helps individuals, organizations and governments have a positive impact on development, business and society with a positive contribution to bottom-line results,” (http://www.imasocialentrepreneur.com/social-responsibility/). In layman’s terms, corporations have a responsibility to serve the community while providing goods and services and making a profit. Business Law author Henry Cheeseman identifies
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