Category: Ethics

Virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition

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1. What are the known relevant facts of the case? Discuss virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition found in Chapter 1 in your answers.
2. What is the ethical question(s) comes to mind? What issues must nurse Allie consider as she attempts to meet her ethical responsibility in this case? What questions remain?
3. What thoughts came to mind when both nurses went in to confront the patient? Hypothesize about the possible consequences of different decisions. What are the possible options for resolving the dilemma? What are the benefits, risks, and consequences of each? How was the patient affected?
4. Identify who will benefit and who will be harmed in view of the nurse’s commitment to the patient.
5. How would you advise Nurse Allie to proceed?
6. What do you think the patient should do in this case?
7. If you were the nurse in this case, what personal beliefs or values do you hold that you would want to take into account/be aware of as you work with the other nurses?

 

 

JPMorgan Chase and an Ivy League graduate

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JPMorgan Chase and an Ivy League graduate has raised ethical dilemmas surrounding the issue of lying to clients. The graduate allegedly faked 4.2 million people on a contact list to help students apply for financial aid. She sold her start-up company to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million, only for JPMorgan to find out after the purchase that all of the names on her list were fabricated. To make matters worse, the graduate had paid a data science professor $18,000 for the fake list to convince JPMorgan to agree to the purchase price. After performing a marketing test using emails, JPMorgan determined that the list was indeed fabricated, as they only received some responses. This incident raises important questions about the ethical implications of lying to clients
Instructions:
identify three potential solutions to the ethical dilemma. For each possible solution, consider the potential impacts and outcomes. Each potential solution should be viewed through and explained from, the point of view of Aristotle’s virtue-based approach you would judge your solution based on how well it conforms to universally held principles. Conclude your discussion by explaining which possible solution is the best based on your ethical beliefs.

This assignment should be at least two pages, or 500 words. Your paper must be APA-complaint.

Stopping the lottery

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a. Do you think the state has any intention of ever stopping the lottery, given the fact that the state relies on it to bring millions of dollars into its treasury?
b. Is it possible that lottery can make everyone a millionaire? Is it ethical to suggest that the purpose of the lottery is to make everyone a millionaire?

 

Ethics, Discretion, And Decision Making Iundividual Project

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You are a sergeant in a community relations unit in a mid-sized metropolitan police department. Your division commander sent you off to a 1-week ethics school run by the Justice Department. You have returned with all kinds of new knowledge about ethics, community relations, and discretion. In your after-action report to the division commander about the training, the chief of police liked what he heard. The chief wants a position paper on ethics as they apply to customer and community relationships, discretion, and operational confidences so that it can be incorporated in the continual ethics and legal guidelines training sessions.

Address the following in 10–12 pages:
Explain the importance of legal and ethical guidelines for the police department.
Why should ethical guidelines and legal training be a continuing process for all personnel in their annual training cycle? Explain in detail.
When police make ethical or unethical decisions in the public eye, how does it impact the police department as a whole? Explain in detail.
Concerning 2 categories of customers contacted by the police on a routine basis, how are ethical issues important to their relationships with these customers? Explain in detail.
Police officers must exercise discretion in a number of interpersonal relationships.
How can this impact the police department for both the good and the bad? Explain.
Close-hold information and operational confidences are critical to any police agency. Relate the importance and impact of operational confidences for administrative issues as well as tactical law enforcement missions.
What subcultures are the most influential within a law enforcement agency? Explain.
What benefits can police subcultures provide for a law enforcement agency? Explain.
What challenges exist with regard to police subcultures within a law enforcement agency? Explain.
What ethical dilemmas can be problematic because of police subcultures? Explain.

Factors you would consider in order to provide ethical, timely communication

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An important aspect of leadership is understanding how to tailor communication based upon the recipient of the message. Thinking about the “A Case Study of Environmental Injustice: The Failure in Flint” topic material, discuss how the public health message you would send to the affected community would differ from the message you would send to policymakers. Explain factors you would consider in order to provide ethical, timely communication, and special considerations that need to be made in order to communicate with each of these audiences effectively.

After Rana Plaza

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1. Who was responsible for the collapse of Rana Plaza, and why do you think so? In your answer, please address the responsibility, if any, of the building owner, factory owners, Bangladeshi government, U.S. and European governments, Bangladeshi workers and their advocates, clothing customers, and apparel retailers and brands in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
2. What could be taken now to reduce the chances of a similar tragedy occurring in the future? In your answer, please consider what actions, if any, the various individuals and groups mentioned in question 1 could take.
3. Of the various options you mentioned in response to question 2, which do you think is most likely to be effective, and why?
4. Develop a typology of corporate strategies to prevent worker abuse by contractors in complex supply chains (e.g., put political pressure on local governments to develop stronger regulations; develop codes of conduct).
5. Under what conditions are different corporate strategies appropriate? Can you predict why different companies might respond in different ways?

 

 

 

Ethical-decision making models

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For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:

You are a manager at a baby formula manufacturing facility. There are global supply chain issues which are impacting the availability of raw materials and a rapid increase in demand is preventing your company from fulfilling customer orders. There is not enough inventory in stock to provide the product to all of your customers, which include some major supermarkets and smaller stores in your region. Utilizing current production standards, it would be at least 45 days before you can ramp up production to meet the demand. Your production team comes to you with the suggestion that the company decrease the quality of the baby formula to meet demand. Given the limited inventory and the high demand, there are decisions that you have to make as a manager regarding the quality and supply distribution of the product.

Using ethical-decision making models, answer the following questions:

As a manager how would you decide how to divide the available supply of product among the various customers?
Would you alter the production method to get the product on the market sooner although it will diminish its quality?

 

The Requirements of Practical Reason

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From Chapter 2: The Requirements of Practical Reason (Curlin & Tollefsen): In this chapter, the authors raise a crucial question: “How do we get from awareness of the basic good of human action to making moral decisions in pursuing those goods?” (p. 36) One answer to this question that many philosophers have defended is a view called consequentialism (or sometimes utilitarianism, understood as a particular version or kind of consequentialism). For this question, please answer the following: (a) Briefly explain how Curlin and Tollefsen define consequentialism and utilitarianism; and (b) Briefly explain the three objections that the authors raise against consequentialism. (pp. 37-38)

Moral Development

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For this assignment, you will apply either Kohlberg’s or Gilligan’s theory to a fictional character of your choosing. See the example further below. Your goal is to try to determine the person’s/character’s overall motivation for their actions. Then tell us what step(s)/stage(s) you believe that person/character is in and why. Do not use cases from the textbook for this assignment. Write two paragraphs, as follows:
Paragraph 1 – Summary (150 words minimum)
Provide a brief summary of the character and cite to a source. You may use the source material directly, such as directly citing to a Sherlock Holmes novel.
Paragraph 2 – Application (150 words minimum)
Discuss the Kohlberg stage(s) or Gilligan step(s) your person is/was in and why. The WHY/BECAUSE should be detailed and is the most important part! Bold Print the step or stage the person is in.