Essays on Ethical Position

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This report is the reflection of the ethical position of Facebook as a Company. The Company is found to have developed significantly favorable standards of ethics for its internal and external stakeholders. However, there seems to have been some issues regarding non-contemporary issues like research ethics in social media. If this area of ethics is addressed well, there would be no area of ethical trauma for the Company.

Introduction

The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg, who was only 23 when he founded the preliminary form of Facebook. The launch was done in the year 2004, and after its overnight ...

24.05.2014 1.0 Introduction Both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations across the world experience ethical issues that must be addressed for the successful realization of the outcomes of these organizations. The ethical issues and dilemma vary from one case to the other, and often compels the organizations to take certain positions based on the ethical values embraced. This study will analyze key problems and ethical dilemma that faced the Human Society of the United States (HSUS), a not-for-profit organization; and General Mills, a for-profit organization. The article will examine the key ethical dilemmas that these two organizations faced, the positions that ...

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This academic exploration of the underpinnings of the psychology of marketing provides timely research outcomes providing understanding for consumer marketing focus connected to human behaviour. In doing so, the literature provides historical and contemporary scientific findings about human cognitive abilities used by marketing schemas focused on sales through consumer buying models. In addition, this academic investigation looks at marketing research from a critical perspective offering further insights by professionals in the field of human behaviour in marketing. Included in this discourse is a perspective of where marketing research and human psychological behaviour need further investigation for creating ethical, substantial, and logical ...

The case study is dedicated to the topic of ethics in sales. Two different situations are considered. In one situation a salesperson applies particular efforts, aiming at making customer buy particular thing, being aware about the fact that the efforts he/she applies leads to objectionable influence on customer’s decision-making process. In another situation (which seems to be opposite) insurance agent lets customer know about harmful effects, connected with the purchase, which can potentially appear in the future. The main issue to be considered with respect to the first situation is about the extent to which it is ethical ...

1. In Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus presents several arguments in favor of the position that Might makes right. Explain three of his arguments. Do they explain how things are in the real world, how they ought to be or both? Explain. Regardless of which option you choose, which of the three options would represent the strongest ethical position? Thrasymachus believes that justice does not really exist at all, except in the minds of naïve idealists like Socrates, and that only power matters. In other words, he is a classical realist and cynical supporter of power politics, which may ...