Whose Job is Famine Relief? PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning December 12, 2012 Everyday on television one will view several commercials about giving to another country, to help the starving children. When Peter Singer wrote his article in 1971“Famine, Affluence and Morality” he was able to give a disastrous review of what readers may ordinarily think about different things such as charity and famine relief and if it is moral. Why is there so much famine around the world? Some
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Your Core Values: Autonomy/Equality and Rationality You value autonomy and equality equally. For you interdependence is the goal, harmonizing the rights of individuals with the well-being of the community. You strongly value rationality over sensibility. Your commitment to applying universal rules equally to everyone is so strong that you resist making exceptions even when intuition suggests a more compassionate result. Your Classical Values: Temperance and Justice You value individual balance
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Research Plan Research topic: Slavery in the Chocolate Business Group member: Li Ruixuan, Chen Yi, Ai Huanyu, Jin Peiyao, Wu Jindi. Research method: This case talks about Slavery in the chocolate industry. They treat children as slavery, and force them to do hard work. The reason by various factors, we can discuss form systemic, corporate and individual ethical issues. Such as systemic, economic systems should be taken into consideration. Cocoa bean prices had declined, between 1996 and
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Business Research: Part I Funding is an essential and key element to any business. Whether a home-based or multimillion dollar industry everything within business comes down to funding. Therefore; Lack of funding is the most common problem amongst businesses. Learning Team “A” will not only explore questions to determine the cause of the problem, but also the team will consider alternate variables to resolve this situation. Having the ability to manage a lack of funding is one of the most challenging
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Jasmine Troyer Principles of Management Professor Eskew 4 October 2012 Empress Luxury Lines This case study discusses the moral and ethical decision of a computer technician and his supervisor. Kevin, the computer technician, was instructed to clear some electrical wire from underground before the insurance company arrived to assess the damage. He made the decision to refuse the order and took the problem Antonio Melendez. After the story was told Antonio had to make a decision to either sweep
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Ethical Issues in Business: Ackerman vs. Coca Cola Coca Cola was brought under scrutiny and to court by Ackerman, filing in the United States District Court in the Eastern District of New York {Ackerman v. The Coca- Cola Company and Energy Brands Inc. (d/b/a Glaceau), Case No. 09-cv-0395) (Brison, 2012). The suit compiles a class action suit from the states of New York, New Jersey, and California. Thirteen allegations are identified with three dismissed. We will be discussing the issue at hand
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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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