The Weston Case: The Case Of Chris And Alison Weston

Ethics is the guiding force in any respectable organization. With a moral compass, especially in the leadership of organization, a company can become compromised and fall into a quagmire of legal issues, a tarnished reputation, and devaluation of company stock if it is a publically traded company. In pursuit of examine my own ethical lens I will analyze the ethical traits of an admired leader, my own traits as exhibited in the Ethical Lens Inventory, and how I make a decision concerning a particular ethical dilemma.

The case of Jonah v White (2012) 48 FAM LR 562 wishes to appeal the original decision of Murphy J, in which his Honour asserted that the appellant, (“Ms Jonah”) and the respondent (“Mr White”) had not been in a de-facto relationship in correspondence with the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) (“the Act”). The appeal is bought before May, Strickland and Ainslie-Wallace JJ in the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia in Brisbane. The case seeks to question and determine what constitutes a law-binding de-facto relationship.

An ethical audit is important to establish the company’s current weaknesses and strengths concerning how it conducts itself in an ethical manner. An ethics audit will involve evaluating the company’s standard of ethic, it ethic climate, and how well the company’s employees follow ethical standards. One of the first things to evaluate in an ethics audit is if a company has a written code of ethics and how comprehensive it is. Moreover, the written code of ethics should apply to everyone in the company from the top down with a clear zero tolerance policy in place for ethics violations. Included in a comprehensive ethics code should be a method for

The issue of ethical decision making has become more important in recent years for a variety of reasons. An understanding of ethical decision making in organizations is more significant to the development of organizational science. Managers engage in decision-making behavior affecting the lives and well-being of others. The individual responds to an ethical dilemma with cognitions determined by his or her cognitive moral development stage.

As a group, we wanted to come to a decision that was both ethical and effective. According to UC San Diego (2014), if the decision was ethical, it would hold up to the moral standard of the group. If the decision was effective, it would satisfy the moral standard in both short-term and long-term. After developing the foundation for our task, we reviewed and discussed the facts of the Nolan Ryan case to prepare for presenting our initial standpoint on the case. Everyone in the group shared their initial decision and why they thought it was both ethical and effective. Of the seven people in our group, four people thought Brian should keep the card and three people thought that Brian should give the card back. Because our initial decisions were such a tossup, it was critical that we considered the consequences of both decisions and how they affect the stakeholders, while still considering the group’s core ethical values. In addition, we established consensus on the percentage of each of the five ethical theories that should be used in consideration of the

The case of Nancy Troy and her family is undoubtedly complex and will necessitate a clinician with the ability to evaluate and address multiple dimensions of Nancy Troy and her family 's lives. It will be critical for a social worker to assess the family structure, the impact of violence, trauma, mental illness, and substance abuse, and finally, cultural considerations in order to address all the needs and areas of improvement presented by the Troy family.

Management is often faced with ethical dilemmas that have no clear cut correct answer. In our case study, (1)Desperate Air, George Nash, Vice President of Real Estate faces a conflict of values similar to the CEO in Seglin’s article, “How to Make Tough Ethical Calls”. They both want to tell the truth and they want to protect their companies, their investors, their employees, and their own livelihood. Neither Mr. Nash nor the CEO conducted a through examination of the problem they faced. I believe the decision to remain silent made by both Nash and the CEO to be short sighted, based solely on short term profit, and would not have been the route I would have taken.

The assumption that ‘it’s easy to be ethical’ assumes that individuals automatically know that they are facing an ethical dilemma and that they should simply choose to do the right thing. But decision makers may not always recognize that they are facing a moral issue. Rarely do decisions come with waving red flags. Dennis Gioia was recall coordinator at Ford Motor

‘Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the Chief executive must set the example’ –Former Chief Justice Edward Hennessey, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (3).

(Panza & Potthast, n.d.) Ethics is very important to a company’s success. Ethical behavior can bring benefits to a business. They can attract customers, which can lead to a boost in sales and profits. It can attract the right employees and increase productivity. It can also attract investors and keep the company’s share price high. Unethical behavior on the other hand can damage a company’s reputation and make it less appealing to stakeholders. It could also result in lower profits.

Management constitute amongst major components of a company, organization or a business. As such, management oversees employees interactions with their supervisors and also control of people within a particular organization. Also, it includes critical and ethical decision-making process so as to address various ethical dilemmas experienced by employees while undertaking their respective assigned duties within the company. Ethical dilemmas are hereby to stay as issues usually arise now and then and place a variety of options that bear different repercussions. Therefore, it calls for ethical and critical decision-making skills so as to make the most appropriate option that bears more benefits in comparison to other options presented. While making ethical decisions, it 's substantially important to play heed to a certain ethical decision-making theory. This would enable an individual making the decision to ripe best possible consequences rather than living to regret. Moreover, ethical decision making is typically important in business as making a wrong decision may result not only in huge losses but also poor relationship amongst colleagues and miserable life for employee(s) working in a particular company or business in question.

Making consistently ethical decisions is difficult. Most decisions have to be made in the context of economic, professional and social pressures, which can sometimes challenge our ethical goals and conceal or confuse the moral issues. In addition, making ethical choices is complex because in many situations there are a multitude of competing interests and values. Other times, crucial facts are unknown or ambiguous. Since many actions are likely to benefit some people at the expense of others, the decision maker must prioritize competing moral claims and must be proficient at predicting the likely consequences of various choices. An ethical person often chooses to do more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Making a business decision for any CEO is easy, the main principle is to keep the shareholders happy by generating more revenue. The more money a company earns the more attractive it looks to the potential investor. Now, from history, we have learned that every CEO is "not" created equal and some use bad business practices to earn more revenue. So, laws were created to set guidelines, companies started to use risk assessment to see if a decision would lead to any legal recourse that would make them a liability, or put them in fault. Not until I took this class did I not realize that there is no one law for every decision that must be made in a business. Thus, the need for ethical decision making.

When one is ethical it means being honest, trustworthy and following good moral standards. An ethical crisis arises when there is a problem or situation that requires a person or organization to choose between what’s right or wrong. Recently, Volkswagen experienced such ethical crisis with falsely programmed software in the company’s diesel vehicles that provided false data to regulators regarding the level of emissions produced by cars. The decision made by Volkswagen to be dishonest regarding their product has cost them severely. Not only has it ruined their reputation but financially it has put a huge strain on the company. Questions are now arising as to what role the lawyers and employees played in this ethical crisis and what they could have done to prevent this incident from happening.

Companies face tough decisions during times of economic downturn -- they cut costs to stay profitable, and when times get very tough, they may decide to make those cuts very deep. These cuts will eventually affect employees. Astratech Communications International (ACI) faced these tough cost cutting decisions. CEO George Anderson started cutting costs with reduced work weeks and pay for employees. Eventually, product demand dropped to the point where George felt layoffs were inevitable. There were multiple approaches to this decision-making process, and all of them could be considered ethical depending on the ethical framework used. This paper examines the ethical issues surrounding George’s reduced work week and layoff decisions