1000 Search Results for Ethics and Morality
Acting in good faith (American Society of Home Inspectors, 2004)
Objectivity and decision making based on strict criteria
Loss of trust, damaged reputation, endangered community safety and well-being
Decision making based on solid criteria and s Continue Reading...
This theory states that crime emerges in the absence of control and shrinks in the presence of control. Corporations therefore can take many steps to encourage moral responsibility, by exercising control at certain points. If employees receive stead Continue Reading...
Many of these individualists will do anything the government allows, even if it is not morally acceptable or ethical. It seems as if society is likely losing its sensibilities and is being led by a nose-ring further and further down an ever more spi Continue Reading...
This moral sense is often bigger and more powerful than us. Some people could call it psychological effect, others might term it differently but the fact remains that if we are doing something wrong, this moral sense would keep nagging us to the poi Continue Reading...
The tragedy is that, often those who wish most for the blessing of children are deprived of this privilege for whatever reason. An even greater charity is that, when the long-awaited life finally does arrive, it is damaged so badly that medical scie Continue Reading...
A written policy regarding sexual misconduct is imperative, as is stringent hiring practices including applicant screening, adequate supervision, training, and a structured investigative process regarding allegations of sexual misconduct (Abner et a Continue Reading...
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work
Originally published in the Harvard Business Review's 1983 edition, Robert Jackall's interpretive sociological analysis entitled "Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work" seeks to explore the ethical Continue Reading...
Ethics and IT
Ethics and Information Technology
Doing Ethics Analysis
This case concerns trade secret misappropriation and theft of intellectual property, as well as issues of surveillance and cybercrime. Sergey Aleynikov attempted to steal comput Continue Reading...
Ethics in Business
Business ethics can be seen from two perspectives. The first, highly personal view of ethics depends to a great extent upon a person's upbringing and life experience. Thus, if a person was raised to be ethical and moral in a gener Continue Reading...
Ethics Plastic
The Ethics of Plastic Surgery Funding Based on the Reason for Surgery and Other Factors: A Literature-Based Briefing
Since the beginnings of recorded history at least, and indeed even earlier from what archaeologists have been able t Continue Reading...
Walker and Clark propose active use of clinical supervision through facilitation, rather than directive approaches and discuss ten cues of seemingly insignificant acts that may lead to problems, such as gift-giving, sale of goods, self-disclosure on Continue Reading...
Ethics in Technology
Business - Management
The purpose of this paper is to highlight and present the ethical issues that are involved in using modern technology. The paper highlights some of the current ethical issues faced by computer users that a Continue Reading...
Ethics: Take it From the Top
Ethics take it from the Top
The essay "Ethics: Take It from the Top" is written by Maynard Dolecheck and Carolyn Dolecheck, who discussed the problem of unethical business practices and suggested some solutions to elimi Continue Reading...
The CDM is meant to award the developers 'credits' for supporting projects in developing countries which avoid greenhouse gas emissions (Joy, 2000). Provided that these credits can be bought and sold, effectively the price of the project is decrease Continue Reading...
Ethics Case Study: Medical Law and Ethics
Jerry McCall is Dr. William's office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and an LPN. He is handling all of the phone calls at the office while the receptionist is at Continue Reading...
Ethics
Police Ethics
Police Department Ethics
Ethics are a sticky situation that most people, no matter what their occupation, have to deal with. When it comes to a job like that of a police officer, it is an even more important consideration. Pol Continue Reading...
Moral and Emotional Responses to the Challenge of Thrasymachus
Might makes right. So suggests the character of Thrasymachus in Plato's "Republic." In other words, justice and morality is merely defined by who is stronger. The proper role of morality Continue Reading...
In sum, the company has taken following steps in its planning functions:
The company is making is mandatory that the company does its business only with those firms that offer priority to ethical relationships with employees, distributors, custome Continue Reading...
408). If what Berenbeim states as truth, is true, then it is important to the business community as well as specific business' to have employees that understand the difference(s) between ethical and unethical behavior. The question then remains, whe Continue Reading...
'" (Aspen, 1997, p.95).
The primary step is to change the mindset of lawyers. They have to stop believing that they run the show and instead focus them as members of a team along with the judge to ensure that the legal system works for the innocent Continue Reading...
Towards this, the ethical principles put forward by German philosopher Immanuel Kant provide useful starting points for the debate. In his categorical imperative, for example, Kant argued that ethical principles must be both logical and must be appl Continue Reading...
Moral Messages in Children's Literature
I chose four children's classics: Charlotte's web (1952) by E.B. White, and other three children's fairy tales, two by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (Cinderella and Snow white and the seven dwarfs) and one by Charle Continue Reading...
The pro-life arguments state that a fetus is in fact a real-life person in the making. Is true there's no supporting scientific evidence for the beginning of personhood, but what if an unborn child has a soul and can actually feel pain? Isn't then a Continue Reading...
Moral Suppression, Social Norms, and the Human Mind: Psychoanalysis in "Wieland" by Charles Brockden Brown
Eighteenth century American literature has yet to witness the science of psychoanalysis that Sigmund Freud had introduced in the 19th century. Continue Reading...
Ethics, Terrorism, & the Future of Policing
The devastating attacks on United States soil that took place on September 11, 2001, became the turning point for all police activity. The police mission went from protecting people against day-to-day Continue Reading...
Research also showed that offenders tend to be part of or return to communities with high concentrations of offenders. The concentration of offenders in these neighborhoods affects the community negatively by increasing the stigma associated with th Continue Reading...
The Preliminary Complaint process consists of consultation by the grievant with the Director of Affirmative Action (DAA); completion of a complaint form within 6 months of the incident; forwarding of the complaint to the accused by the DAA and a pre Continue Reading...
Ethics
As a new graduate of six months working night shift on a small cancer unit, I am faced with a dilemma. Mr. V has been in and out of the unit several times over the last few months. He has liver cancer and has gone through several episodes of Continue Reading...
Moral Leadership
CEO's values influence on mission, vision, and members of an organization
Effective leadership relies on the ethics and morals of the leader. The values expressed by the leader are transposed by his or her actions and are reflected Continue Reading...
He is not depriving the pharmacist of his livelihood. He is not depriving another sick individual from having access to the same medication. Harvey only risks getting caught stealing and even if he were caught would be unlikely to spend any time in Continue Reading...
Ethics of Human Cloning
Ever since Dolly the Sheep was initially cloned in the latter portion of the 20th century, there has been widespread debate over the ethical issues and the practicality of human cloning. Many points of these issues are elucid Continue Reading...
A woman who willingly becomes pregnant as in the case of a married woman may be thought of as a person who has voluntarily contracted an obligation with her spouse to see through the birth and preserve the fetus. What happens when the woman was rape Continue Reading...
Furthermore, resentment could be cultivated in society as a whole, as some may feel that they are deprived of the opportunities that minority groups have been receiving with almost no effort at all.
In conclusion, therefore, while I believe that it Continue Reading...
I have a clear written mandate that guides this decision. The other alternatives do not have the same clear, written mandate as the one that I made. While a utilitarian approach may have yielded a different decision, in my position as a safeguard of Continue Reading...
" When a person files for bankruptcy, a person's trust, conscience, moral responsibility and accountability are all jeopardized.
Trust
Trust has always been an important factor in any credit transaction. With the increase of informal credit sales s Continue Reading...
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"It turns out that some mothers and fathers don't view certain genetic conditions as disabilities but as a way to enter into a rich, shared culture" (Sanghavi, p. 1). Based on the data that Sanghavi researched, genetic testing for dwarfism has Continue Reading...
Unfortunately, this meant that mortgage lenders no longer had to worry at all about whether or not their borrowers were good or bad risks, since their mortgage debts were sold off to other institutions. That situation triggered widespread ethical vi Continue Reading...
.. "answers in his autobiography with a quotation from the Bible: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. (Proverbs 22:29)."
Weber's explanation of the rise of capitalism through the rise of Protestantism in Western Continue Reading...
On the other hand, there are also many in the medical arena who are of the opinion that this view is too radical and essentially unhelpful. Many doctors consider that a strict ethical view of growth hormone treatment would be unreasonable and unfair Continue Reading...
Muslim scholars agree that Allah has created a diverse and distinct world (Cole-Turner, 2001). Human cloning revolves around the duplication of same genes and thus, this would have a negative impact on the diversity of creation. Furthermore, Muslim Continue Reading...