Healthcare is one of the most important arenas for applied ethics and social justice. The concept of universal healthcare can be considered from a number of different ethical standpoints including consequential and deontological perspectives (Daniels Continue Reading...
Ethics in Public SafetyIntroductionEthics support the right functioning of public safety, as they can define both the goals and the proper or moral ways to achieving those goals. This paper discusses the big three primary ethical frameworks: Deontolo Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision What would you do? In the first place, lives are more valuable -- far more valuable -- than jobs. True, without a job many adult individuals would suffer, but given the possibility that the bug in the prototype that Occidental Eng Continue Reading...
Religious Ethics in Comparison Though the three religions reviewed and critiqued in this paper -- Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam -- have very different histories and quite original approaches to ethics, there are also a number of startling simila Continue Reading...
Legally, forcing Ford to make costly payments to the families of the victims of its maleficent inaction was good for society as well as for the individuals who were harmed. Companies are less likely to make such criminally negligent risk/benefit ca Continue Reading...
Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Abortion and Virtue Ethics In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Nebraska's Attorney General, Jon Bruning, announced his efforts to revoke the lic Continue Reading...
3. Professional codes are put in place by industry organizations in order to guide the behavior of their members. The codes provide definitions and guidance with respect to right or wrong behavior. In some cases, these codes also include provisions Continue Reading...
Beliefs, Practices, Challenges Persons in positions of leadership inevitably encounter major ethical dilemmas and in fact make ethical decisions on a daily basis. Interviews with senior executives can reveal the complexities of ethical decision makin Continue Reading...
behave ethically are more apt to earn the trust of their customers, employees, and stockholders. A system of ethics serves as the backbone of an organization. Without such a backbone, an organization cannot be firm enough to provide its various part Continue Reading...
duty-based or deontological ethics will be defined and applied to Mattel Inc.'s case. Duty-Based Ethics Duty-based or deontological ethics deals with what individuals do, rather than the outcomes of their doings. Its key tenets are: Do what is et Continue Reading...
In other cases, preserving confidentiality or entrusting the doctor with treatment-related decisions may be in the best interest of the patient and his or her family or community. Health care workers should carefully weigh consequences, in light of Continue Reading...
That is one of the 'reliefs' of having an ethical code -- a counselor does not have to engage in soul-searching as to whether his or her personal beliefs about John's actions are impinging upon his or her judgment. The counselor can refer to the law Continue Reading...
Language of Care Ethics Noddings expresses the view that the act of caring can be the basis for a moral way of life, and builds this into her illustration of the value of care ethics. She chooses specific language that is to be the basis of this voca Continue Reading...
Because the imperative is something that stems from the rational will, adherence to it is really only adherence to the law that the will itself created. The will, that is, is acting as the will tells itself it has to. Due to the circular nature of t Continue Reading...
Ethical Theory Ethics in law Ethical theory: Utilitarianism, deontology, and the Golden Rule To some extent, to define what is not 'ethics' is easier to define than what is 'ethics.' Ethics are not based in personal feelings, given that it can be Continue Reading...
In 1997, numerous key educational institutions including the AASA (American Association of School Administrators); ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), NAESP (the National Association of Elementary School Principals), Continue Reading...
Morality of Statistics Ethics/Business Statistics, Christian Worldview The morality of statistics: Will statistics invariably lie? A famous book from the 1950s was entitled How to lie with statistics. Implied by the counter-intuitive name was the Continue Reading...
Ethics in Group Counselling Ethics in Group Counseling Group Therapy Counselling: Ethics The ethical concerns of therapists have been getting larger in quantity and sophistication. Managed care demands professionals to think about problems with d Continue Reading...
hypothetical firm -- Pharmacare -- and address the issues of corporate responsibility and ethics. Background Information on Case New Jersey-based company, Pharmacare (We CARE about YOUR health®) counts among the leading pharmaceutical firms acro Continue Reading...
The activities of businesses affect different stakeholders within the communities they operate in. They affect customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, financiers, regulatory authorities, and communities. Accordingly, in their pursuit of econom Continue Reading...
The importance of ethics in the criminal justice field cannot be overemphasised. All participants must portray acceptable moral conduct for positive criminal justice outcomes to be achieved (Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy, 2008). This is particula Continue Reading...
The focus is on understanding the way moral choices are presented than judging the outcome of the decisions made. Ethics can be situational, and certainly the dilemmas or morality and choice have different answers depending on the particular time an Continue Reading...
Ethics of Employee Location Monitoring In the contemporary workplace, workers are usually aware that their computer activity, email, and phone conversations may be -- and probably are -- being monitored by their employer. Efforts to limit the consu Continue Reading...
To ensure the deontological validity of the agreement, the specific requirements of Article VII therefore need to be somewhat modified and restipulated. Rather than allowing no other employment, there could for example be some conditions that govern Continue Reading...
ethical theory hinges on the concept of right and wrong. Philosophers since Aristotle have debated the meaning of morality for thousands of years. The idea that everyone has an individual opinion of right vs. wrong equates to moral relativism. Are m Continue Reading...
Astrue v. Capato, the Supreme Court ruled that children conceived posthumously -- that is, through in vitro fertilization after the biological parent is deceased -- are not entitled to the same rights and privileges as children born while that paren Continue Reading...
Ethics and Morality: Utilitarianism, Deontology, And Rights Ethics Principles Dramatized Example of Utilitarianism At some point in the popular investigative TV show 24, Jack Bauer, an influential counterterrorism officer, questions terrorist Syed Continue Reading...
Ethics and Morality: The Theories of Ethics and Morality The subject in this case faces an ethical dilemma, where she has to choose between reporting an ethical concern and just playing along or doing nothing at all. Both choices have serious conseq Continue Reading...
Ethics of Stem Cell Research Stem Cell Research Ethics The Ethics of Stem Cell Research: A Nursing Perspective The Ethics of Stem Cell Research: A Nursing Perspective When the world-famous cloned sheep, Dolly, was euthanized at the relatively you Continue Reading...
If the leaders of our national financial institutions had asked 'are these moral actions right, ethically speaking, from the point-of-view of my profession' rather than 'will these moral actions make money,' the world financial crisis would never ha Continue Reading...
Code of Ethics Core values My core ethical value can best be summed up as follows: 'always put yourself in the other person's shoes.' I consider this to be a modified version of the Golden Rule of 'do unto others as you would have done unto you.' T Continue Reading...
company having strong ethics across the entire organization, including ethical leadership, training & codes, and an ethical culture. The first and most important thing is that the company needs to have ethical leadership in place. People within Continue Reading...
Whereas I try to respect the requirements of formal rules and procedures, I would prefer to violate those rules where their application would lead to an unintended result or undermine the effort to achieve the greatest benefit. In this respect, I w Continue Reading...
The less direct the impact, the more likely the stakeholder is to use consequentialist considerations to just the actions of managers. For example, government did not react to the need for improved governance and pass Sarbanes-Oxley until after mult Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Is your answer from last week closer to the utilitarian approach to moral problems, to the Kantian / deontological approach or to neither? The answer from last week's problem is considered to be both utilitarian and deontological. Continue Reading...
