Ethics Reflection
STR/581
Ethics Reflection Ethics have played a role in how companies have done business and conducted themselves but not as much as when Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson were in the spot light for fraud. The companies hid valuable information from internal and external stakeholder and stockholders alike. The employees lost their retirement or at least some of their retirement to these unethical actions of top executives. The researcher will explain the role that ethics and social reasonability has on developing a strategic plan and how her ethical responsibilities have changed because of her education in this program.
Ethics and Social Responsibility in Strategic Planning According to Pearce and Robinson, 2011,
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As mentioned earlier there were some companies that did practice some unethical actions that went against the strategy this in turn made other companies, employees, customers, stakeholders, and investors have a bad view of companies like these.
Researcher’s Ethical Perspective This researcher has taken the assessment in a previous ethics course, and she is surprised to see that her viewpoints had little change. According to Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory Assessment, 2012, “Her ethical perspective tends to lean toward the individual’s duty or obligation to do what is morally right and principles that represent what rational persons ought morally to do.” She believes that ethical conduct has consciences. The assessment states that ethical principle is always important no matter what circumstances, respectful of human dignity, promoting individual freedom and autonomy. According to Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory Assessment, 2012, “No one should ever be treated as a means to the accomplishment of some defined end, because the end does not justify the means.” According to Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory Assessment, 2012, “Her ethical style is that human beings have intrinsic value, and he or she has a right to individual respect.” So she is less
On the other hand although their similarities are close knit; they each have a distinct difference depending on the individual. For instance, recently the complex next door caught fire due to bad wiring. The company put all the tenants up for the weekend because they believed that this is what they ought to do. After the weekend the tenants were told that the situation had been turned over to their insurance company and it was out of their hands. The tenants believe that the company should hold their self-responsible and accommodate them much more.
The problem with unethical practices is that a company itself is not the only one will suffer from the consequence of its illegal actions. Most of the time, there are customers who get victimized by these unethical practices as they put their trust and loyalty on businesses that they have patronized for so long. At the end of the day, all they can do is file their complaints and vent out their frustrations over the betrayal they experienced from their trusted businesses, but the damage remains permanent. The once excellent relationships are forever destroyed and victimized customers always carry with them the trauma and fear that they could be fooled again in the future.
Is pleasing the customers, and telling them what they might want to hear, more important than being honest with them? When clients ask the company for reports, their main interest should be to get a thorough and comprehensive analysis. If they were only looking for a confirmation of what they wanted to hear, they should not need the research.
These issues are all of ethical concerns, but are also legal concern according to the fact that is illegal to not completely attempt resuscitative efforts in the absence of a DNR.
The Individual Ethics Awareness Inventory examines which of four different components is the most critical in an individual's ethical position: character, obligation, results, and equity (CORE). When a person makes a decision or analyzes a scenario, their personal ethical perspective helps determine how they approach the issue. When character is the most important issue, the person's ethical perspective s based upon what it is good to be, rather than what it is good to do (Brody, 2007). People who emphasize character believe that moral excellence is the goal, and that judging morality involves looking beyond actions and examining character (Brody, 2007). When obligation is the most important issue, the person is focused upon the obligation to do what is morally correct (Brody, 2007). People who focus on obligation believe that a set of identifiable ethical principles, involving universality and a respect for human dignity, drive the decision-making process (Brody, 2007). When results are most important, the individual does not examine the motivations of the actors, but the results of the actions (Brody, 2007). Finally, when a person is based in equity, they are looking for stability (Brody, 2007). This stability refers to stability in results, rather than actions, because people with an equitable perspective believe that no set decision will be appropriate in all scenarios (Brody, 2007).
Choice 2: A married couple, both addicted to drugs, are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. Does ethics support the law in this case? Discuss.
Morality are a set of principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Morality guides an individuals day to day decisions and behaviors. Our internal moral compass dictates our behavior, and our decisions on what is 'right or wrong'. The statement " Do not lie!" reflects absolutism, an exception for moral rule. Absolutist believe in absolute principles in all ethical matters, giving a clear guideline of behavior.
The primary purpose of ethics and social responsibility is imperative to the way we do business and live amongst society. Ethics most commonly know as the rights and wrongs are principles and standards that establish what is know as acceptable conduct within an organization. Organizations have moral and legal duties to implement ethics when developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholders and consumers, they do not want to be lied to or cheated into buying a false product. Unethical companies will use aggressive sales tactics and mischievous ways, of doing business to sell, promote and profit from vulnerable consumers. Unethical organizations believe in these tactics
Everyday we each face questions of what we ought to do. We sometimes ask ourselves,
With a store like this it is important that if you are promoting the flavors of the world they you would also represent the people of those regions. A diverse workforce that is familiar with these ingredients and foods would also show that the owner take a
When the stock market goes up one day, and then goes down for the next five, then up again, and then down again, that’s what you call market volatility.
I believe the ethical response that most applies to male’s lack of motivation in school is the scream. The scream is anything in our society that is personally alarming and causes you to take action because of your integrity as a human being. It relates to problems in the world that cause you to question the values and ethics of society. The scream doesn’t have to be a directed at you deliberately, it can be numerous events in society that impact you morally hence making want to scream. An example of this ethical response in the real world is the use of cellular devices while driving. The most recent statistics in the United States show that there are three-hundred and thirty thousand injuries and four thousand deaths each year as a result
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The ethical dilemma that I intend to analyze in this paper is, whether the right to free speech and expression which fall under the broader head of individual rights should be absolute or should there be censorship over the rights for the overall harmony/good of the society? My task here is to lay out the ethical theories under which the above stated issue can be evaluated. The three main types of moral codes are Egoism, Altruism and Cynical Exploitation. This discussion will regard the egoist theory, altruism theory and cynical exploitation in evaluating the dilemma.
Ethics deals with the responsibility the researcher has for their participants and the effects that the research can have on them.