Week One – Three theories of ethics From early childhood on, we live in a world of choices, actions and consequences. Some acts make us happy, others sad, some guilty, others proud, and many actions just get us through the day. We observe other people and experience feelings of empathy, sympathy, envy, embarrassment, censure. We judge (or “think about”) the actions of ourselves and others according to criteria gathered over time from family, friends, mentors and society at large. Philosophers
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Discuss the Case from the Standpoint of OD Values and Ethics. The Kindred Todd case illustrates a realistic dilemma an Organization Development Practitioner (ODP) may face while properly performing his role of helping the client organization maximize humanistic benefits and achieve organizational effectiveness. The ODP is a qualified professional who facilitates change within the client organization that involves encouraging open communication, employee involvement and personal growth and development
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Joseph Freberg, a sales manager , worked in Alcon for 18 months. He first began his work at Cala Industry, which specialized in making air compressors. Because his work with Cala, he had been lured away to Alcon. And Joseph was trying to figure out how to solve an ethical dilemma he had come across. He happened to find out that Carl had been giving feedbacks to some of his buyers. Carl's sales volume accounted for a substantial amount of the company's existing clientele sales and he had been the
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before human rights activists sounded the alarm on how Nike’s contract employees were badly mistreated. A review of how the various shareholders, namely the employees, customers and shareholders. A review of the company’s practices is done from an ethics perspective. It was found that the theory of justice is a sound method of solving Nike’s problems. However, to implement the theory of justice would require constant monitoring on Nike’s part on its contract manufacturers. This is not always possible
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Teleological ethics – determines the rightness of an action or decision based solely on the consequences of that action or decision. Teleological moral systems are characterized primarily by a focus on the consequences which any action might have (for that reason, they are often referred to as consequentialist moral systems, and both terms are used here). Thus, in order to make correct moral choices, we have to have some understanding of what will result from our choices. When we make choices which
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Testing human morality. What certain actions do humans take when the world comes to an end? Would someone be able to make the right decision for human survival? Would they be able to look away from morality and fulfill the duties needed to recreate a new world? Trying to figure out what steps an individual would take when placed in an apocalyptic situation is hard because of something that is very subjective, morality. Though morals do vary from person to person and society to society there are
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| Termination | | One thing that I have been involved with before has been termination. I have found that over the years there have been many situations and many types of people who have had to be let go for so many different reasons. When handling these types of situations it can be of great difficulty to safely and ethically terminate a person without saying or doing something wrong. I would have to say that termination is one of my least favorite things to do simply because I believe
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The Parable of the Sadhu Case Recount 1 New Zealander came staggering with a body Dumped the almost naked, barefooted Sadhu at McCoy’s feet and left McCoy took his pulse; Stephen and 4 Swiss gave outer clothings Japanese refused to transport the Sadhu down to the hut with their horse Stephen attempted to help the Sadhu but was suffering from altitude sickness McCoy took off, leaving the Sadhu with Stephen Sherpas carried Sadhu down to a rock at 15,000 feet; Japanese gave the
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other banks froze lending to reduce their exposure of Lehman’s undesirable Repo 105. Lehman’s employees suffered too as they lost their jobs overnight. 2. After extensive research, it was apparent that a written “Code of Ethics” was present at Lehman Brothers. However, for an ethics code to be effective, the tone at the top executives needs to be set right so that the entire organisation can feel connected to the firm’s ethical values and beliefs. The obvious failure we witness in Lehman’s case was
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This essay will highlight the mission statement of the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and focus on the ethical challenges that Midwives face on a daily basis. It will also emphasise the strategies that can be implemented by Midwives when challenged with ethical issues that may arise. Midwifery is a professional discipline that combines science, art, as well as strong ethical values (Ozcan & Akpinar & Ergin 2012) Individuals are not born with a set of values. The values are formed
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