Ethical Principles and Issues within Addiction Counseling Jennifer Spivey Liberty University Abstract Addiction counselors have many ethical and legal considerations in when providing services to substance abusers. There are ethical principles that including justice, autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and fidelity. Along with these principles there are federal and state regulations when providing services. As an addiction counselor there should be ethical guidelines to follow with informed
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Module 1 – Journal Entry 1 Ethical conduct is the base and most important goal in building a company. Without proper ethics, a company will without a doubt not succeed and flourish as expected. As described by the authors of the book Organizational Behavior “Ethics involves the study of moral issues and choices. It is concerned with right versus wrong, go” (Pg. 21) Ethics is what builds trust between coworkers, customers, managers and anyone the company might deal with. And without all these parties
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“Ethical Dilemma at Northlake” Week 3 – Case Study # 1 Synopsis: The case begins with Jim McIntoch the vice president of finance of Amalgamated Forest Products having a conversation with Frank the manager of corporate reporting. Jim is upset with Frank and is confronting him about the decision he’s made about going public about a financial analysis report that Amalgamated Forest Products will present to the legislation. Frank is stating that the report is falsifying information about the how
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relationships between legal and ethical issues, identify personal values and professional ethics, examine ethical theories and principles, and apply these to current practice examples. Nurses face an ever-growing complexity within their practice as professionals. Understanding the relationship between legal and ethical issues and how to apply that understanding to every day practice is paramount for today’s professional nurse. This paper will further explore these ethical theories and principles while
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universities worked as a team to pursue the story behind the Foxconn which they described as “labour camp” (Chan, 2013). As the major manufacturer of Apple, Foxconn should undertake the due obligations but Apple also cannot avoid its responsibility. A case study “Apple’s efforts fail to end gruelling conditions at Foxconn factories” is presented to scrutinize and evaluate the causes that result in the industrial injuries. Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) suggests that overtime
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primary objective is to gain profits. Conversely, the proponents of the stakeholder approach contest that there are other things a business ought to be in consideration of besides profits. This never-ending debate often leaves business executives in a dilemma for the appropriate management style. Thus, this paper compares and contrasts the merits of the two theories in relation to the company executives’ responsibilities. 2.0 Theories at work 2.1 Decision-making in the stakeholders and shareholders theories
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culture that was envisioned – the culture of a company reflects the behavior of its leaders. Therefore in bringing forward the change, it is best to have alignment with the leadership team. Question #2 Why would you endeavor or try to develop an ethical programme for
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Case Study Analysis-D Critical Thinking Case Study Analysis: GOOGLE 1. Describe the philosophical principle Google's managers adopt when deciding that the benefits of operating in China outweighed the costs. Discuss the philosophical approaches to ethics. Describe the approaches that are favored by most moral philosophers and form the basis for current models of ethical behavior in international business. Google began to operate in China in 2000, it was two years later that the Chinese
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background of Study Nowadays, integrity issues become frequently discuss and report among reporters and society. As we know, integrity is a part of ethical values that shows the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is important to be integrity person to ensure the task or jobs are more honest and there is no abuse of power among the public or private employees. The situation can be seen in several countries, there are a lot of unethical
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religions, and policies. Ethical behaviors are generally derived from experience and common sense. It is been argued that Ethics are not considered as benchmarks, however, groups of individuals constitute the power of firms and bad ethics will be driven out by the majority of opinion. Obviously issues that have ethical overtones are presented to everyone, and they make decisions on those issues. Are those ethical decisions? We try to imagine that only the 'right' choice is an ethical decision. But often
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