Morality Case Studies Samples For Students

Executive Summary

There are set of standards and policies that guide how people behave in the places of work. These form workplace or business ethics. The ethical viewpoints include utilitarian view, deontology ethics, virtue ethics and intuitionism. From the case in accounting department, there are various considerations in the analysis of the case. This paper looks at the viewpoints mentioned and analyze them in relation to the case where Mr. Jones is reported to be developing a workplace relationship with Ms. Smith.

Introduction

Ethics in the workplace can be defined as the guidelines and policies that benchmark how the members of the organization ...

1. Tell me whether each of the following statements is descriptive or normative, and briefly explain your answer:
a. Genetic screening could reveal an individual's tolerance for or susceptibility to chemicals used in the workplace.

First of all, it is important to understand that normative statements explain about how things should be. Conversely, descriptive statements give an opinion about what an individual or persons think about a certain thing or phenomenon. In the case of this statement, it is a normative statement because it explains about how things in workplace should be. The statement advocates the idea that genetic ...

Ethics is the principle of conduct governing an individual or group. It is also a study of morality. Ethics is the discipline that examines the moral standards of a person or the moral standards of the community. Ethics asks whether those standards are applied to our life and whether they are reasonable or unreasonable. Business ethics is the specialized study of moral right or wrong that focuses on business institutions, activities and organizations. Business ethics is the study of moral standards and how they apply to social systems and organization through which modern societies are supplied with goods and services. Business ...

Introduction

There are certain actions that have to be considered by an organization in order to become economically and strategically prosper and perfect. It is profitability and economic expansion for that an organization always strives for and in order to expand positively, effective decisions should have been taken considerably. Apparently, cost and profitability are the only two elements that deem important for an organization, but it is also important for them to adhere with the compliance accordingly and effectively.
Ethics is basically referred as norms and dos of an activity and it is solely responsible for the economic and ...

Answer 1.

According to the theory of Gilligan, if Anika would be in the first stage i.e. the preconventional stage, then she would have decided to accept Darius’s proposal. In the first stage of Gilligan’s theory, the primary goal of a person is individual survival that means the person would try to survive himself from any case of confusion. As we can see in Anika’s case, her friend Hope also had a crush on Darius, and she was in confusion whether to choose her friend or the proposal of Darius. But in the preconventional stage, a person wants to care only ...

[Student’s Name Here]

Jurisdiction: Public disclosure of private facts under the state of Michigan
I. Alex Como has a legal basis for filing a case against Sarah Falinsky for invasion of privacy by Public Disclosure of Private Facts.
Como has a legal basis for filing a case against Falinksy for invasion of privacy by public disclosure of private facts according to the privacy tort of public disclosure of private facts.
This memo will now discuss whether Como’s claim is strong enough to charge Falinsky for invasion of privacy given the provisions stated under the elements of private facts.
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The case clearly presents a number of concerns permeating the ethical, legal and moral boundaries. The situation would inevitably leave any professional disturbed. For starters, it is imperative to appreciate the role of professional nurses in as far as delivering services to clients (read patients) is concerned. It is essential to approach health issues from a dual perspective whereby the patient’s needs equally inform the manner of operations and service delivery. However, the dual approach becomes problematic the moment the demands go against what is commonly referred to as public policy. It is incumbent hence for a professional in such situations ...

As a member of the entrepreneurship club, I would personally disassociate with all the three business proposals presented by other members. I would not agree with any of the three business proposals advanced by members. My decision would be informed by my understanding of ethical theory and business practice. Ethics in business can be viewed as the code of morality that guide businesses (August, Mayer, & Bixby, 2012). At this juncture, it is important to note that morality is relative. What is right or wrong to you might not be the same to another person. Different societies have different standards of ...

- Is there a moral dilemma? How do we know?
Morals are defined as the rules that govern behavior, they act as a guide in determining what is right and wrong in the society including in the medical field. From the case study above concerning Barbie, there is a moral dilemma. For an individual who has been an alcoholic to qualify for organ allocation they are required to have been sober for at least six months. However, Barbie drinks excessively and when her physician gets to learn of her condition he fails to reveal this information to the organ allocation organization. ...

Alistair is a chief legal officer in a well-respected company involved in making lifesaving drugs. He has been asked by the board of the company to investigate rumors of price-fixing within the firm’s European offices. In the course of him doing his mandated duty, he encounters a breach in the operation of one of his firms, involving a Bosnia contract in which a very large commission was paid to Romanian distributor to deliver the kits into Bosnia.
Problem statement: Alistair as a chief legal officer has to make a decision whether this is a form of bribe and if so, whether to write a report to ...

Foundation Course-

- Article: Creating Shared Value
The shared value concept encompasses policies and practices to enhance a firm’s competition as well as social and economical decision in the area of operations. The government pressurizes firms and makes shared value hard to achieve. Porter and Kramer (2011, p.63) asserts that the government has to collaborate with the businesses to achieve success in the society. The shared value concept focuses to connect the society and economic progress. A society must regulate the market to influence the government policy decisions. Shared value concept recognizes societal needs created by the firms’ internal costs. ...

[Writer’s Name]

The setting is of a true story of a group of hikers on the Himalayas who came across a Sadhu, or a holy man on their way up. The group comprised Japanese, Swiss, New Zealanders, some porters and Sherpas who were very goal-oriented about their climb. They all come across the Sadhu, who was severely hypothermic and very close to death. All the group members were at different stages of their ascent and had the moral obligation of helping the Sadhu. They all did their little bit as far as it was convenient for them, but did not go the ...

Step 1: Identify Ethical Issues

In this scenario, a clothing company is determining whether or not it is right to source from an Asian manufacturing company. The following ethical issues are identified:
The factory is shown to work the employees long hours, with very low pay compared to America. However, the workers claim that they are very grateful for the jobs that are given to them.

Is it fair to work employees so much for so little, even if they are satisfied by it?

Threads with Style is dedicated to social responsibility as well as profitability. The basic pay of the workers might be low, however it would be better if some form of benefit was given. Although the workers are paid ...

Academic integrity, commonly known as academic honesty, refers to commitment even in the face of struggle to the five vital virtues of trust, honesty, respect, responsibility, and fairness. It is from these values that behavioral principles flow. These principles of behavior enable academic communities in translation of ideals into actions.
Ethical theories enable us to contemplate issues and make rational decisions about the proper action to take. They assist us to be moral agents with a conscience by pointing out one's duties in such occasions. These theories also guide the choices we make in particular cases. Examples of these ...

RAPE CASE IN MALAYSIA

Introduction
Human beings interact through a complex mechanism guided by values, morality, ethics, and law. The diversity of human interactive systems provides overlapping interactive mechanisms between these principles. It is therefore important to understand the meanings, boundaries, and role of these principles within the domain of human interaction. Values are ideas we hold that give significance and meaning to our lives. They underpin our beliefs, influence the actions we take, decisions we make, and even the life we lead. It is important to understand values in order to acquire know on how to create realities about ourselves, and thus ...

Introduction

Nathaniel Hawthorne ranks among the world’s major authors. His proficiency in the art of literature, particularly short fiction is unmatched. Two of his most famous works are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil. In these two short fictional stories, Hawthorne portrays a romantic view of sin and people. Like many other romantic literature pieces, the setting of the stories is dark and gloomy. Religion plays a huge role in both stories. History reveals that the American nation was partly founded through the ideals of religion. From its inception, religion has helped to shape and define the modern ...

Some Paradoxes Associated With Whistle Blowing.

The term whistle blower refers to an individual or an informant who exposes wrongdoing within the organization with the objective or hopes to stop it. On the other hand, a paradox refers to the inconsistency between the theory of our systematic understanding of whistle blowing and what we actually know about whistle blowing. This paper provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the paradoxes behind whistle blowing. However, there is nothing morally problematic about whistle blowing because after all. This is because revealing of the information that has not been revealed is part of the function of science.
However, research ...

In trying to evaluate how the Development, Relief and Education of Alien minors (DREAM) act would affect life in the United States of America, the quasi-longitudinal study approach was the most appropriate. Various variables to be studied include; impact of the DREAM act on U.S.A and improvement in education levels. Other variables such as effect on country’s global economy, quality and service of the military, change in prevalence of illegal migration, growth and development of alien minors and moral character are important considerations in quasi longitudinal study. DREAM act is a legislative proposal passed in 2010. It was aimed ...

The sexual metaphor used to describe the relationship between the soul and God ought to be taken neither literally nor or analogically. It should be taken in terms of great richness for reflection as per the article. The sexual metaphor should not be interpreted on surface value but rather on the context meaning. The Hindu teachings blend sexuality when explaining the passionate sexual love that the women accord Krishna. The sexually charged love is a metaphor for a spiritual union that is very charged, engaging and blissful. Krishna’s sexual portrays the strength, delight and fascinating nature of love for one’ ...

Philosophy

John Stuart Mill writes in his Utilitarianism: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.” First, summarize the main ideas of the theory of Utilitarianism. Then, explain this quote and discuss its significance in Mill’s Utilitarian account of pleasure and pain.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), in his “Utilitarianism” (1879/2004), defined a good action as the ...

Kohlberg’s six Stages of Moral Development

Lawrence Kohlberg identified six stages in moral development divided into three levels or phases:
Preconventional Level
Stage 1 — The Punishment and Obedience Orientation
Stage 2 — The Instrumental Relativist Orientation
Conventional Level
Stage 3 — The “Good Boy - Nice Girl” Orientation
Stage 4 — The Law and Order Orientation
Postconventional Level
Stage 5 — The Social-Contract Legalistic Orientation
Stage 6 — The Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Preconventional Level
As the name of the phase connotes, people do not have yet the discipline or habit to conform or adapt to conventions. They are ...

Introduction

Moral culpability can be defined as the degree or level of wrongfulness based on moral standards rather than the formulated legal standards. In his book The Ethics of Belief, William Clifford tries to illustrate this concept by giving an analogy to a ship owner and his ship. In the analogy, the ship owner manages to convince himself that his ship is seaworthy and can be sent to sea. He does this without verification and the result is that the vessel sinks and many people lose their lives but he goes ahead to collect his insurance settlement.
The ship-owner can ...

Arguably, bottled water is one of the swift growing drinking choices in the world; in fact, people in the globe spend billions in buying it. As a matter of fact, bottled water has been a debatably issues, especially, on its contents, morality, healthy, and ethical aspects of it. The content of bottled water differs, depending of the type of company it produces, nutritional information, and ingredients that it contains. Hence, some of the contents of the bottled water include inorganic minerals and metals, such as calcium, fluoride, potassium, magnesium, and biocarbonate. Moreover, water contains some ingredients that are useful to the ...

Michael Clayton

Arthur a partner in a leading law firm feels guilty after discovering that U-North an agrochemical company they represent is actually responsible for the death of farmers and other citizens. Arthur faces a moral dilemma concerning the lives of the citizens affected and the amount of money they stand to make if they win the lawsuit. Arthur weighs the benefits in terms of cash that he claims to waste on prostitutes and the lives of innocent people. His conscience weighs down on him, and he decides to build a case against his firm in order to enable the innocent people, especially Anna whose ...

Business ethics

Capitalism is an ideology, which refers to an economic system whereby the methods of production and distribution is privately owned by individuals or corporate firms. According to Shaw et al, some of the features of capitalism include; free enterprise non-restrictive government interference in the economy and maximization of consumer welfare from a free market that is based on supply and demand. Capitalism also favors freedom of individual economic enterprise, which has been protected from abuse by the government. Such actions have varied over many years from country to country. An example is slavery in Britain and the United States and ...

Aristotle said “ excellence is a habit.” Rupert Murdock has shown that lax morals values become habits as well. In Mr. Murdock’s case, this lack of morals brought down The News of The World. It had become so corrupt under Rupert Murdock’s control that, even with a 168-year history that included decades of honorable reporting nothing could salvage its reputation.
The reverberations reached far beyond the demise of the newspaper and resulted in further consequences. The Murdock News Corporation empire was involved in business negotiations to purchase the remaining shares of stock it needed to possess a controlling interest in ...

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This case is about morals and employer versus employee conflict of interest. Its focal point is twenty eight years old, Elaine Hunt--a recently promoted senior financial manager--whose husband, Dennis is involved in export-import business. Being in charge of ten branch loan office managers, Elaine Hunt is charged with the responsibility of signing–off loans well over $500,000. Nonetheless, the signing off of larger loans must be authenticated by the United Bank Cooperation’s vice president. The case focuses principally on conflicting morals. It is evident that Elaine Hunt makes several financial business decisions which are impacting ...

Abstract

In this essay I briefly attempt to draw on religious morality and essentially using the ideas of Nietzsche, dismantle them slightly to discover their relevance today. Using ideas from T.H Green I initially try to establish the religious ideas of morality and how society should work or how Christianity would like them to work and then bring this down to reality, exposing its irrationality and immaturity. Drawing finally on the conclusion that a large portion of modern society actually functions quite well without religion and the fear of the death of religion is unfounded, life would continue on the same ...

Introduction

Mary’s case reflects a serious case of criminal behavior, not counting the numerous crimes committed against her by her family members. Mary is a serious psychological case, as she has faced numerous negative influences in her life and suffered serious emotional trauma. Raised by a father who was abusive against the family and a mother who was emotionally distant, Mary’s childhood and most formative years were spent facing damaging abuse that would affect her for the rest of her life. Her step-father, who arrived on the scene when Mary was nearly ten, sexually abused her and her ...

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Introduction

It is impossible to avoid those racy headlines or steamy news in the newspapers or television about a person or group of persons or a certain condition or situation that is a threat to societal values. The mass media has always played an important role in shaping the society and its views. The term “moral panic" was coined by Stanley Cohen in 1971 to illustrate responses of the public and media to the disturbances in the society. According to Cohen, those elements that deviated away from the core values of law abiding ...

History, Circumstances, Ethical Issues

“The Italian Tax Mores” case, prepared by Arthur R. Kelly highlights an ethical issue specific to the modern corporate world. The case is based on a real life occurrence, which indicates that the moral absolutes are surpassed by the legal morality, which results in a moral contradiction. Therefore, an American leading bank that opened a subsidiary in Italy was faced with a moral issue when it was forced to apply the “Italian style” for declaring its tax return, which implied lying about the actual tax return by downsizing it with 30 – 70% of its real value (Kelly 54). Although ...

Business

Unprofessional conduct
Nowadays one of the major challenges facing education is the quality of education that should be determined in addition to the content and new technologies in this field, a humanistic orientation of the educational process, and the competence of teaching staff. The main categories of teachers' ethics are the pedagogical duty, freedom, responsibility, fairness, tact and honor. Development of ethics fruitfully impacts on interpersonal relationships between all the participants of the educational process: teacher and student, student - student, teacher - parent, teacher - colleagues. All this improves the moral and psychological climate in the school. Therefore, ...

Introduction

This paper looks into certain situations in the society where sound judgments and decisions are needed to come at a better solution to an ethical dilemma.
The ethical dilemma is a compound situation often involving apparent mental conflicts between moral imperatives where a party would be relatively disobeyed when the other party is deliberately adhered to. This is often called as the ethical paradoxes in moral philosophy and is more often than not brought into play in attempting to refute a particular ethical system or moral code (“What is an Ethical Dilemma,” 2012). Also, morals are of significant in the Criminal Justice ...

Chinese is one of the world's unique cultures. Being Chinese does not necessarily mean that one was born in China, but rather, they practice the Chinese Culture. In China, the national identity and psychology are determined by the cultural values that the people hold. In the country, public opinion is always given the priority before state leaders can go ahead to make any decision regarding the welfare of the nation (LuWang & Lin, 2010). In China, according to Chen (2005), the major cultural values that influence the nation’s people include filial piety, harmony, loyalty, benevolence, honesty, righteousness, wisdom, and ...

Quiz 2

1 While Victor was a typical boy in Mexico, his move to the United States changed him. While he once thrived in school and sports, he has become the class clown, prejudiced towards other colors, and combative. This rather extreme and sudden change can be attributed to classical conditioning.
Classical conditioning is learning by association (Changingminds.org, 2015). For instance, a rat can be taught to avoid sweet tasting liquid if after each time they drink the liquid they are injected with something that makes them sick (Changingminds.org, 2015). They learn to associate being sick with the sweet liquid, and will ...

Analysis of the Documentary Food, Inc. through the Lens of Ethical Theories and Ideas

Some may wonder whether the food choice is an ethical issue. After all, we make these choices at least three times a day and our individual decisions influence the global industry of food growth, production and processing. As Jones, Cardinal and Hayward remind us, we exist in society and are connected to other people. This is why our choices, in our case, the food choices, affect other people, and their decisions influence us as well (2006, p. 3). Various theories of ethics propose different ways of viewing the problems of food production and consumption and seek solutions in distinct ...

Ethics is the accepted code of conduct (principles of wrong or right) that control the behavior of an individual, an organization or group of a profession. It is always considered to be a factor of variation in politics, economic growth, culture and legal systems. Particular practices might be unethical when viewed by other countries' standards. Most common ethical issues are related to human rights, labor standards, and financial standards, accounting standards, environmental regulations, moral obligations, and corruption.
The international business setting, through its economic and cultural diversity, time and again exposes foreign executives to significant challenges. On a short ...

What moral issues does the case arise?

Qatar Airlines has been cited over the decades as one of the airlines with the strictest rules by International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and has mentioned that the company is a disgrace to the aviation industry for failing to honor labor rights for its female employees. Some of the controversy issues concerning the airline include its prohibition that the female crew should not get married or pregnant during their first five years of marriage. Furthermore, it is the moral rights of human beings to decide when to marry or get married whatsoever, and an employer should not restrict an ...

Business Ethics

Ethics can be defined as the code of moral values and principles that govern how an individual or a group relate to what is good or bad. It constitutes parts of a corporate culture that deal with inside principles. As to decision-making and conduct, ethics sets standards as to what is wrong or right. In addressing moral and economic legal concerns, ethical business decision making plays a vital role in balancing both corporate and social responsibilities. This essay is going to discuss the considerations and the criteria for the process of ethical decision making in business. In addition, it ...

Lack of information has come to be seen as a fundamental cause of market failure. Resale markets, housing markets and markets for corporate securities suffer to some extent from the problem that market participants have better information security than others about the value of the good are traded. The market of lemons is a situation where bad goods always drive out good ones from the market. This is done in the same manner, which bad money drives out the good. This means there is no price at which trades will take place. In the lemon market there is possibility that one ...

Abstract

The issue of free will (freedom) versus determination has been around for a long time. It has continued to be a puzzle for philosophers ever since. Philosophers face such trouble with the issue of freedom versus determination because without freedom morality would be unheard of among the humankind; and such there would be no good, no wrong, or evil. All of humankind’s behavior would be priory determined, and; therefore, man would be left with no choice or creativity (Fischer 1994).

Introduction

Ted Trainer conducted a study in 2010 at the UNSW on the consumption of non renewable resources by first- world countries. ...

Is this an appropriate reason to become pregnant?

Advance in technology can often raise issues regarding their application in everyday life. There are various moral considerations that arise in association with the ability to choose specific features of children when they are born. The advent of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has given parents the opportunity to decide specific characteristics of their children at an early stage. The underlying issue of the case is whether or not they should have a child that is matched with their sick child's tissue type so that they can obtain a transplant. While this would be of great medical benefit it presents ...

Several philosophers and scientists have been in support of abortion. They claim that the right to live for the fetus lay in the hands of the carrier and hence they have a right to terminate it whenever they feel it is convenient. Medical experts are also advising pregnant women to end their pregnancy in case they realize the fetus is affected by some abnormality. Medics use the moral theory of the utilitarianism (Marsh, 2012, p. 30). However, other philosophers and religious institutions are advocating for the right of the fetus. They claim that the fetus is human, and hence, ...

Moral Issues

The case raises the question of whether the companies’ policies on pregnancy and marriage amount to disparate treatment or intentional discrimination of some employees based on pregnancy, marriage, childbirth, and related medical/social impairments. Given that women in many societies bear the primary responsibility for child rearing, and are disproportionately more impaired by pregnancy, the requirement that they leave if they get pregnant may amount to sex-based discrimination. Ultimately, the policy may have a negative impact on the women’s labor force participation (even though this does not appear to be the case for these airlines).
Lastly, the case raises ...

Analyzing in a specific way which can put at hazard the classified justice and educated assent privileges of the considerable number of gatherings in a discussion or mediation criteria. This can move towards the high profile analysts to make avoidable moral difficulties in the processes including isolated families or uncommon family establishments; it can influence people’s capacity to contemplate their conceivably clashing loyal terms to class, understudy, guardian, and others; and it can make it hard to follow their moral and expert benchmarks in dealing with difficult terms and methodologies. To put it plainly, the thought of a particular customer has ...

Six pillars of character

Maintenance of a commendable ethical character is essential to the work environment. In fact, Sanderse (2012) argues that lack thereof creates a non-conducive work and communication atmosphere. As a result, it is essential for people to value the essence of ethics and respect for other people. In the case provided, we are presented with two parties that are a complete opposite of each other’s character. As much as mutual understanding is enhanced through the efforts of more than one party, it is worth acknowledging that Jeffrey Lyndell lacks essential characters that define good personality (Mintz & Morris, 2014). Primarily, ...

Introduction

There have been increased awareness on ethical business and environmental degradation within the recent decades. Just like human, organizations are held responsible for their actions. This paper explores the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to the case study of the OK Tedi Copper Mine. The new CEO of BHP, Paul Anderson had just come in office and faced with the task of managing what people had referred to as the world’s greatest ongoing “environmental disaster” (Velasquez, 2012).

Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the consequences or outcomes ...

40 questions answered from two different books.

Health Care Ethics Principles and Problems (Medical Ethics)

Chapter 1
Briefly describe the differences among ethics, professional ethics and health care ethics.
Ethics is concerned with the way people ought to live their lives. It must not be confused with religion even though they may tend to advocate the same values. However, ethics are distinct interrelations among human which can be considered acceptable or unacceptable.
Professional ethics embody regulations pertaining to how persons function within a discipline. It specifies right and wrong actions based on morality. It does encompass principles of being, but the authors of this text ...

The Board of Education violated her right to privacy

The Board of Education disregarded Pettit's entitlement to privacy. She had devoted much of her time to work with the mentally challenged children for more than thirteen years and, all through her vocation, her assessments were constantly positive. Her sexual orientation in “Swingers” is outside her jurisdiction of her role as a teacher and the allocated working hours, and she is at liberty to do whatever thing as long as it does not meddle with her performance as a professional instructor. Based on the allegations leveled against her, her sexual activities have nothing to do with her qualifications or ...

Brief Summary

In recent years, technology has moved so fast that since the advent of Google Earth, less than five years later, there are now companies that have sent their satellites into space to capture real-time images of the earth as reported by NOAA Satellites and Information (2016). This trend even received the attention of high profile celebrities and has been endorsed by George Clooney, who has collaborated with the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) to help document crimes against humanity in the conflict-ridden Sub-Saharan region. (Tovrov, 2012). Cheaper, higher resolution, and complex satellites are being sent into the earth's stratosphere, some ...

What Sandel is trying to achieve in his analysis of the “elderly mother-nursing home case.” What is more important: respect or compassion?
Described case in a hospital is bringing the reader in a situation of ethical dilemma. I regard this situation as a very critical and emotionally hard. Probably this is why Sandel is using it, in order not to simplify the choice and make people understand that sometimes life can demand difficult decisions. Two beloved and close to a person people: mother and brother. It is clear that after losing a brother person will try to prevent probable ...

Introduction

Social learning theory is a comprehensive theory that encompasses interrelated concepts about human behavior. The first to develop this theory is the American psychologist, Albert Bandura, in the 1960s. Bandura theorized that people learn behavior through observation, which he proved through his ‘Bobo doll’ experiment. Social learning theorists believe that human behavior is not just a product of the ‘cause and effect’ phenomenon as what behaviorism suggests, but rather, human beings processes information from the environment and learns their behavior over time. According to Bandura, man is a thinking creature; that he is not helpless to the psychological and ...

Introduction

Nurses have to make ethical decisions between what is ‘wrong’ and what is ‘right’ on a daily basis. The nursing profession is based on ethical code of conduct. Ethical conduct is an important aspect in the delivery of quality care. Nursing ethics allows nurses to provide care that is patient centric and observes patient autonomy and privacy. There are different theories used to make ethical decisions in nursing. Each theory has its limitations and often, ethical decisions are made after careful analysis of a case. Culture plays a critical role in ethics as what is right and what is wrong is largely ...

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Short answers 3 point seach
What is medical tourism?
Medical tourism is “where patients travel overseas for operations and various invasive therapies.” (Connell 2006, p. 1093).

What are 3 reasons people choose surgeries/procedures in other countries?

1. Economics – Even with health insurance, many procedures can be performed
for a fraction of the cost overseas.
2. Quality of care – quality of care is increasing around the world to the
near equivalent of Western countries.
3. More options- Even with health insurance, many patients find their health insurance companies limit the kinds of procedures they are able to receive.

What is the commoditization of care?

Turning health care into a commodity that is undifferentiated from other competing ...

Management – Answering Questions

A professional is obliged to ensure that he or she does not proceed to offer a service to the client if there is a fault that will cause injury to the client. For instance, an engineer is supposed to be a whistleblower whenever he detects that there is a fault that will harm the client. Failure to be keen more on the fatal designs that may lead to accidents is unethical for a professional engineer. Therefore, it is vital for the engineer to be in the frontline whenever he or she is offering a service. There should be no negligence during service delivery as that ...

How Engineers may use Moral Theories to better Navigate Ethical Dilemmas that Arise in their Careers

Engineering is one of the disciplines that depend heavily on certain ethical guidelines ensuring that services provided by engineers do not harm the natural environment and human beings. A significant number of ethical guideline within engineering are basically established following three major moral theories; deontology, utilitarian and virtue ethics. The concept of utilitarian theory is based on the essence of determining whether an action is right or wrong through evaluation of how it benefits the highest number of stakeholders i.e. actions are considered right in case they cause a greater good to individuals (Houser et al, 262). On the other ...

Part 1: Profile of USAID

USAID is an acronym that stands for United States Agency for International Development. It is a non-profit organization that carries out interventions in hard hit areas, primarily in third world developing countries. It is a federal agency of the government of the United States of America primarily tasked with delivering civilian foreign aid.
- Areas of Interest
USAID has interest in many areas around the globe. Firstly, it is important to identify the areas of operational interest for the organization. USAID seeks to help overseas people who are struggling to live a better life, live in the reins of democracy ...

Business Ethics

In the United States, drug companies enjoy a high-profit margin. It means that when purchasing different commodities, Americans incur high costs, unlike Canadians or Europeans. The drug industry has been noted as the most profitable sector in the economy in the last two years. The United States drug prices do not indicate a fair and competitive market since they sell only a handful of essential drugs with the aim of establishing a top selling market (Williams, 1985). Pharmaceutical companies have ethical responsibilities that contrast with that of small biotechnology organizations regarding research and innovation. For instance, CV Therapeutic is ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

Ethics

The criminal justice system has been facing numerous problems concerning moral choice; for example, involvement in petition bargaining, the resolution to take legal action, the application of fatal forces, the burden of chastisement, as well as the representation of the charged. It is, therefore, vital for all experts in the criminal justice system to be conscious and receptive to moral problems confronted in the course of their task. The term morality, in the field of criminal justice, can be defined as the principles of aptness and decency by which human behaviors are judged (Gunning, 2007).
Literature review has it ...