Concerns of For-Profit and Not- For-Profit Organizations Matthew Morton PHI445: Personal & Organizational Ethics Instructor: Robin McCart-Brown 10/12/2015 “Ethics: an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior: a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong (Merriam-Webster)”. The theory of ethical issues dates back to the first known human beings, as even the oldest settlers of this planet, had some guidelines distinguishing right from wrong
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Theory according to the merriam-webster.com is a set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events. The goal of a theory is to approach a situation and to identify the matter and determine the best outcome from it. The two components of a theory are assessing solutions to the disagreement and specifying the reason for this issue and supporting it with a conclusion. One of the theories I have chosen to use is Deontology and the situation of a mother telling her daughter whether Santa Clause
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think. A simple way to evaluate whether or not a practice is ethical is to determine the ultimate effect of that practice. For example, if the manager of a store paid his cleaning employee less than the going rate to clean his store, knowing exactly what the going rate is, several things could happen to damage the business. The employee could suffer serious financial implications or the employee could leave and find another position where she does not feel exploited. The subject of ethics is often
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Ethics Case: "A Good Team Player" 1) Describe the factual situation Steven, a staff accountant in the accounts payable section, is confident that he knows the “ins” and “outs” of the bureaucratic organization he works in. Kristin, a new manager of accounts payable, no non-sense type of manager, Kristin was experienced and determined to perform her new assignment with the same vigor that had brought her so much success throughout her career. Steven believes people seem to gain promotions
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Kriss Smith 6/26/2014 Ronda Williams Final paper When dealing with ethics, integrity and management everything in the organization must be carefully monitored to assure there is the least possible amount of unethical activity. Unethical activity has in most cases negative effects on an organization such as legal issues resulting in fines, slacked employee performance and loss of company credibility. Even with the high risk of unethical behavior people often find themselves in situations
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Australia Mining Corporation company needs to make an ethical decision whether to purchase a luxury gift. Since received information that gift giving able to secure the contract between the Asian Company. The ethical decision making models are utilitarian, moral rights and justice. This essay will be discussing on whether the manager should purchase a gift while negotiating a cross culture business. Moral right is not suitable because moral is one behavioral value base on certain criteria
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website Human Rights Watch describes itself as an independent organization dedicated to protecting human rights by exposing violations and trying to end abuses (Human Rights Watch, N.D.). Their 2005 study of three American meat packing plants revealed what they claim to be unsafe working conditions; intimidation of union organizers; denial of worker’s compensation claims for on the job injuries; and the exploitation of worker’ immigrations status to prevent complaints (Gonzalez, 2005). As a result
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Krystal Graham “Occupy Wall Street” Business Ethics Professor: Steven Curry “Occupy Wall Street” The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has become a big deal since it began in the fall of 2011. This movement was inspired by international protests, with thousands arriving in New York City answering the call, soon spreading to well over 500 cities. I would like to discuss more of the details of the movement, the moral and economic implications, as well as the different ethics theories to see
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the stakeholders and how they are affected. What are the main harms and benefits in this case for the different stakeholders based on the current situation? (20 MARKS) 1.2 From a utilitarian perspective, would you argue for or against the proposed tightening of UK banking regulation? (20 MARKS) 1.3 Using arguments based on the ‘maxims’ of duty, would you consider the UK banks to have acted ethically in their operations? (20 MARKS) 1.4 What clashes of rights are involved in this situation
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Subcompact cars were a trend during the 1960’s. Well known international companies such as Volkswagen and Toyota were competing with each other in producing their own subcompact vehicles and fortunately both of these companies were able to succeed in European countries and Japan. Due to the rising demand of this type of automobile, car manufacturers in United States of America started to manufacture their own subcompact cars. The current president of Ford at that time, Lee Iacocca, recognized the
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