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  • Ethics in the Workplace - Sears Auto Center

    Ethics in the Workplace - Sears Auto Center

    Ethics in the Workplace – Sears Auto Center Ethics in the workplace and sometimes the lack thereof can significantly influence the success of an organization. Effective leaders often approach ethical dilemmas by identifying alternative actions and their consequences on stakeholders. The aftermath of the disasters caused by Enron, WorldCom, and other businesses, once prominent companies, resulted in a significant loss of confidence in business leader’s conduct. Organizations in today’s highly competitive business environment must develop

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David
  • Ethics in Financial Business Decisions

    Ethics in Financial Business Decisions

    Ethics in Financial Business Decisions Student Name School Name Class Title Course Number Instructor’s Name Date Written Ethics in Financial Business decisions The work I reviewed begins with a simple introduction explaining the roots of ethics in America wrought with quotes from our earliest leaders including George Washington and John Adams. Additional quotes identify and support the “Ten Universal Values” of “honesty, integrity, promise-keeping, fidelity, fairness, caring, respect for others, responsible citizenship, pursuit of excellence,

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    Essay Length: 983 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Aristotle on Bravery and Friendship

    Aristotle on Bravery and Friendship

    Bravery Aristotle raises the concept of bravery in Book III of the Nicomachean Ethics, and he defines bravery, as possessed by an individual, to be the capacity to be unperturbed, as far as a human being can possibly remain unperturbed. The brave person may fear any sort of thing, be it something too frightening for the general populace, or perhaps something much less frightening, but he will stand firm against these frightening things in the

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: regina
  • International Marketing Ethics

    International Marketing Ethics

    Running Head: INTERNATIONAL MARKETING ETHICS International Marketing Ethics Abstract Businesses face various ethical challenges when conducting business. These ethical challenges are also present when conducting business aboard. Companies must be aware of ethical standards and acceptable behavior. This awareness means that marketers must recognize the viewpoints of three key players: the company, the industry, and society. Since these three groups almost always have different needs and wants, ethical conflicts are likely to arise. These challenges

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Machiavelli’s Conception of Virtu and Fortuna

    Machiavelli’s Conception of Virtu and Fortuna

    Machiavelli's conception of virtu and fortuna Niccolo Machiavelli is considered the father of modern political science. Living in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century's, Machiavelli was a citizen of the city-state of Florence where he served as a secretary to the city council and as a diplomatic envoy for 14 years. The Prince was published five years after his death and is regarded as his most famous work. The Prince is an articulate and precise

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Technology Department - It Ethics

    Technology Department - It Ethics

    Technology Department Technology is in many ways very beneficial to our society, but in what ways can and/or will this fast growing business be unethical. This article explains the power and information that an IT personnel has in the business world. Most people think of the IT person as someone who comes to fix their computer when they can’t figure out their e-mail. But what does an IT person have access to. Every business is

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    Essay Length: 1,680 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: A Question of Ethics

    Martin Luther King Jr.: A Question of Ethics

    Martin Luther King Jr.: A Question Of Ethics A Letter from Birmingham Jail" was penned as a response to a letter that criticized Martin Luther King Jr. written by eight high ranking clergymen. Although King's letter was addressed as a reply to these clergymen, the real audience was the "white moderate" - otherwise known as middle class America (King et al 106). By gaining the support of this majority group, King knew that the civil

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture

    Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture

    Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture? Jeremiah Johnson TEC/401 Linda Poole November 16, 2006 Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture? In today’s work environment, workers are expected to know more than ever before. With the growing of technology comes more knowledge that end-users must know, so it is important for workers not to be distracted by unethical practices. However, with technology also comes a more defined sense of communication, which can be good or

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    Essay Length: 977 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Aristotle on Justice

    Aristotle on Justice

    In this paper, I shall address two central contemporary criticisms of Aristotle's conception of justice. These criticisms of Aristotle's account of specific justice have focused on two central problems. First, Aristotle's insistence that all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia Pleonexia can be understood as the desire to have more of some socially availablegood, and is usually translated as greed or acquisitiveness. Close . Second, Aristotle does not identify a deficient vice with respect

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: July
  • Workplace Ethics

    Workplace Ethics

    The judicial system in the United States is in desperate need of Christians with high ethic principles to take control of our courts. More Christian lawyers in our courts is one way of getting ethics into the judicial system. There are major controversial issues lawyers encounter when dealing with their clients and business in general. Firstly, many people question if an honest lawyer can defend a guilty client. “t is true that a lawyer is

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Ethical Usage of Workplace Technologies

    Ethical Usage of Workplace Technologies

    Introduction Technology provides today's business enterprises with much utility and many advantages that businesses of yesteryear were not afforded. As a result, businesses have experienced a significant tradeoff between old ways of doing business in a pen and paper environment to an operational environment that is electronically driven. For example, companies now send mass amounts of electronic mail as opposed to writing letters and mailing them through the US Post Office. Another example is the

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Immanuel Kant’s Ethics of Pure Duty

    Immanuel Kant’s Ethics of Pure Duty

    Immanuel Kant's Ethics Of Pure Duty In Comparison To John Stuart Mill's Utilitarian Ethics Of Justice Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill are philosophers who addressed the issues of morality in terms of how moral traditions are formed. Immanuel Kant has presented one viewpoint in The Grounding For The Metaphysics of Morals that is founded on his belief that the worth of man is inherent in his ability to reason. John Stuart Mill holds another

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Is Downsizing Ethical?

    Is Downsizing Ethical?

    Position Paper Eleven Is downsizing ethical? I wouldn't necessarily say that downsizing is ethical or unethical. I think downsizing is sometimes necessary if it has to be done because every other option before downsizing was tried and did not work. I would say there is a ethical and a unethical way of downsizing. I believe that when a business has to downsize they need to have a plan well ahead of time and they need

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Artur
  • Current Ethical Issues in Business

    Current Ethical Issues in Business

    Current Ethical Issue in Business The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been in the news for recent issues regarding animal cruelty. The same activists that had to fight to preserve the habitat of animals, the cruelty in the clothing industry and in medical experiments have been the focus of attention for the way they have handled disposing of dead dogs and cats. This paper will establish the ethical issues, theories,

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • Kant Moral Ethics

    Kant Moral Ethics

    Immanuel Kant's moral theory can be best explained by comparing it to a math equation. Kant's moral system will always hold true no matter what the circumstance just like how two plus two will always equal four. According to Kant, our lives should be lived according to maxims that can be willed into universal law (Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, p 303). However the action regarding a moral decision is not judged

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: David
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    The issue of whether Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth emails should be released to his parents continues to be debated among many IT personnel in the Armed Forces. I have on certain issues, argued my point in a few of these debates. However, these debates were not mine. Therefore, I will express only my arguments that are in support of Yahoo throughout this paper. The family of a Marine killed in Iraq is pleading with

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Stem Cell, Health Care Ethics Class

    Stem Cell, Health Care Ethics Class

    Stem cells are cells that can form into any type of cell, they are found in bone marrow, embryos, fetuses, and blood from the umbilical cord. Early in development, a human embryo is made up of a hollow ball of cells called a "blastocyst". Blastocyst cells divide and eventually develop into all of the tissues and organs of a human being, a process called "differentiation". Embryonic stem cells can be grown in the laboratory from

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: July
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    ETHICS Imagine a 15 year old student in philosophy class. After discussing why should you or shouldn't you judge other societies, and getting in depth with ethics, the teacher decides to tell a story to the class. She says"..there is a tribe in the Amazon(Brazil) were they show love and respect by cutting body parts.It would be a good sign if your father cuts a finger of a son...." she then asked the class "....

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

    In my opinion the consequences of our actions should play as a reminder in our effort to assess what is ethical behavior and what is not. It can be said as a reminder because, individuals may learn from their actions. The consequences of their actions are either ethical or not. Therefore, every time the individuals look back to their actions, they will remember whether the actions have left them a good result or not. Thus,

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Victor
  • Reflection of Aristotle

    Reflection of Aristotle

    Reflection of Aristotle Aristotle believed that the goal of all human life is to achieve ultimate happiness. Happiness is the final Utopia or the end of “a life worth living.” Human instinct is characterized by achieving personal fulfillment, thus leading to happiness. Aristotle warns against going astray and “preferring a life suitable to beasts” by assuming happiness and pleasure are equal. Living a life preferred by beasts incapacitates a person from achieving the end Utopia.

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Personal Environmental Ethics

    Personal Environmental Ethics

    There are some people who believe that the United States' strictly forced endangered species laws seriously hamper our economy. I on the other hand must disagree. The endangered species laws were created for an important reason: to protect our earth's biological diversity. Whenever humanity interferes with the ecosystem for the purpose of economic growth it tears it apart piece by piece. It is for reasons like these we must have such tough laws, as in

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Management Planning and Ethics

    Management Planning and Ethics

    The recent breakdown in trust resulting from the lack of character of some leaders in corporate America should cause less finger-pointing and more serious introspection. These leaders are not from outer space, here to impose some alien standard of conduct, but came from among us and as such, reflect attitudes and values that we have lazily slipped into. The tendency is to punish the “evil-doers” and move on confidently in the knowledge that the problem

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Amy Lynn Shipley University of Phoenix MBA500 Shelley Pumphrey Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper In the medieval society, morality was dictated by the simple laws of the church. As John Menadue (2000) reminds us, “The church believed business was basically immoral. Those who worked in 'trade' have often carried a moral or social stigma. If one wanted to live a virtuous life, one should be like the

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Ethics in Accounting

    Ethics in Accounting

    Ethics in Accounting John Doe FIN 324 Ohio State University John Doe July 10, 2004 Ethics in Accounting Ethics are not merely something, which is comprised of a person’s belief or thoughts, but that of what is best for an organization or company. Ethical decisions in business are handled everyday, and most organizations have some sort of established code of conduct to help guide management to make the correct decision. Ethical decisions are not always

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Artur
  • Do Humans Have the Right to Create Life Through Unnatural Means? What Are the Ethical and Moral Aspects of This?

    Do Humans Have the Right to Create Life Through Unnatural Means? What Are the Ethical and Moral Aspects of This?

    A question one could ask oneself is, whether or not Frankenstein is God? Does he have the right to create or undo life? Questions and fears are countless in this matter, but so are the curiosities which continue to carry on the development of biotechnological science. There were many factors which drove Frankenstein on in his venture through creating life, one being curiosity. It is curiosity among other factors which drive scientists on in this

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Andrew