| Concept of Ethics & Obligations | George Tenet: Ethical Dilemmas | | Vivian L Burke | | February 5, 2012 In his essay Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface, Dwight Waldo identifies and differentiates between private and public morality and notes that the two can often be at odds with each other. In Waldo’s opinion, the fundamental premise of public morality is that the actions and behavior of those in office or tasked with the representation of the public
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III. Prescriptive Approaches to Ethical Decision Making in Business A. Focus on Consequences (Consequentialist Theories) B. Focus on Duties, Obligations, and Principles (Deontological Theories) C. Focus on Integrity (Virtue Ethics) IV. Eight Steps to Sound Ethical Decision Making in Business A. Step One: Gather the Facts B. Step Two: Define the Ethical Issues C. Step Three: Identify the Affected Parties (the Stakeholders) D. Step Four: Identify
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Discussion Questions of Ethics a) Define ethics & discuss its relationship with normative systems The Meaning of Ethics: Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live. Ethics involves making moral judgments about what is right or wrong, good or bad. Right and wrong are qualities or moral judgments we assign to actions and conduct. Within the study of ethics, there are three branches: metaethics
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Introduction: In the essay Ethics and Intuitions by Peter Singer, it talks about the intuitions that people have in certain situations that have been presented. Psychologists try to use an fMRI imagining trying to figure out what part of the brain response to the certain situation. In this paper I shall give a summary about the article, and then move on to the critique. In which I have agreed with Singer that intuitions are wrong. Summary: In the essay Singer starts off with Jim Rachels example
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Ethics can be defined as principles or right or wrong. Business decisions should be ethical, but the evidence suggests that is not always what happens. (Hollenbeck, Gerhert, Noe, & Wright 2004) A recent study has shown that 4 out of 10 executives stated that they had been asked to behave unethically. As a result of unfavorable perceptions of U.S. business practices and an increased concern for better serving customers, U.S. companies are becoming more aware of the need for all company representatives
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advice on how to deal with a business issue or how to make the business grow. a. b. Here is a print screen from the Thorpe Park jobs website. The job involves excellent customer service in all areas of Thorpe Park; this is the main duties of Thorpe Park. Guest satisfaction is essential because if the guest has a disappointing time they will complain and it will affect all merlin attractions which will reduce profit. c. In an application form they ask for certain information PERSONAL INFORMATION
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PERSONAL VALUES AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING Values Ive worked many years and have never gave much thought to the decision that I’ve made, in fact during my lifetime Ive never considered the role that values plays in the decision making process. I assumed ageing was the reason for my increased decision making prowess. I was mistaken in my thinking just as I was mistaken in my views on the nursing profession. Values are the beliefs that peoples in a society embrace. It guides their action
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most people; we cannot even share amusing stories at a dinner party or at girl’s night out! It is very important that we keep a high level of ethics for both professional and legal reasons. We are dealing with extremely personal information which cannot be shared with anyone around us. These ethics relate not only to how we speak to others about our work, but how we obtain, keep and send out information. As a med aide and care giver that deal with jobs that involve a lot of private information involving
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government sectors so also equally raise a public level of informed comment on the intelligence to the issues. It is also to maintained and promote the ACS code of ethics, and extend the knowledge of intelligence and explain the benefits of being an ACS member. 3. What is the A.C.S. Code of Ethics? The ACS by the code of ethics requires its member’s to follow certain rules and guideline that are a set of values and ideals that uphold the honors, dignity, and its effectiveness of the information
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own wealth. Work-ethic Protestantism. The psychology hidden within work-ethic Protestantism is that people believed your work-ethic determined how faithful you were to Protestantism. Working hard was considered salvation. The colonist obeyed because as Kramnick states “Daily labor sanctified and thus was both specific obligation and positive moral values” (18). They believed each man’s occupation was a gift from god. In turn this avoided laziness. SImilar to Locke, the work-ethic Protestants believed
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