Brian Han Ethics Case Study Issue: Was the decision to provide free yard maintenance to hospital board members ethical? Rule: A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgment or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest. Analysis: When the maintenance crew was ordered by the CEO to provide free services to the board of trustees, a conflict of interest occurred for the board members. The primary interests
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May 12, 2014 RE: An Executive’s Double Standard RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of Directors put to a vote the implementation of an Organizational Audit, to take within the current fiscal year. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When investigating ethical issues, departments that normally handle documentation are being ignored. For starters, the HR and payroll departments are being excluded from matters at hand in this case. An audit should be performed on the organizational structure of the Company. We
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training might qualify him to issue the refill order but not in his current job. From an ethical perspective, the reason is that he was not hired as LNP or medical assistant; this means he does not have the power to write a refill order. For this scenario the medication that needed to be prescribed is antidepressant, if the medication requested were for control of high blood pressure is would still be unethical for Jerry to write a refill order. It would still be unethical because he is not allowed to
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Eli Stahler EBM 493 Ethics in Business Ethics and Business: Lovers or Enemies? Works Cited Berrone, P., Surroca, J., & Tribo, J. CORPORATE ETHICAL IDENTITY AS DETERMINANT OF FIRM PERFORMANCE: A TEST OF THE MEDIATING ROLE OF STAKEHOLDER SATISFACTION. Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid, Departamento de Economía de la Empresa . Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid. Friedman, M. (1970, September 13). The Social Responsibilty of Business is to Increase Its Profits. The New York Times Magazine
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of human subjects in healthcare research evokes ethical concerns, especially when their culture is different and their socio-economic status is lower than the Western standards.” (Igoumenidis & Zyga, 2011) Ethical vs. Unethical Practices Bioethics is about ethical issues in the field of health care; it is the discipline which aims at ensuring that health care professionals, researchers, policy-makers, and even lawyers who deal with healthcare law, exercise their duties in the most just and
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marketing tobacco products to younger consumers unethical? a. It is unethical to market tobacco products to younger consumers that are under the legal age to purchase their products. The Marlboro Man worked for when cowboys was relevant and cool so that worked because everyone wanted to be a cowboy but it was still unethical then and Joe Camel worked as well because they made him look cool during the time the ads were running but they were unethical also. 2. Many are beginning to argue that fast-food
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that G-Biosport products were contaminated with hazardous Fibranafren. The problem is that the products had already been distributed and were on the market. The staff of G-Biosport had to get together and share their opinions on what to do about the issue on hand. It was decided that the customers always have the right to know about the quality of all products. In this case Jennifer, the Quality Control Manager, was responsible for letting all shareholders involved know of all potential hazards and
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facing an issue that can cause the business to lose its credibility and reputation. The company has received many complaints from customers regarding its LCD TV’s products. Our employees are violating the code of ethics, causing the company’s TVs to overheat after a period of time approximated to be one year and two months, after the one year warranty expires. After investigations, we discovered that some materials were causing this problem to arise. Employees covered up this issue during testing
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[Your Name] [Instructor Name] [Course Number] [Date] Sociology: Why Do People Turn a Blind Eye on Unethical Behavior Since time immemorial, mankind’s coexistence has, to a large part, been greatly influenced by a set of rules of conduct, around which societies have formed and grown themselves the world over. It is these set of rules that principally guide a society’s members over what is considered ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ as they interact in various contexts, and therefore, regulate their behavior
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corporate social responsibility?’ In order to answer the question Business and Management tools and theory have been applied to Shell’s way of doing business, focusing on corrupt countries. The essay takes into consideration the causes of corruption or unethical behaviour, and links to what Shell could do, or have done, to prevent such behaviour. The information of this essay has come from the public domain as well as Shell’s internal policies such as their Code of Conduct, their General Business Principles
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