...Moral and Ethical Implications of Virtual Reality Every endeavor and ambition in life requires some form of decision making. The better we are at making good decisions, the more we can gain a favorable outcome from our endeavors and ambitions. Good decision making requires both moral and ethical fortitude. Virtual Reality (VR) in the psychological sense is an ambition to experience a world free of inhibitions and social judgments. Because this apparition of reality pays no immediate consequences for the mistakes we make in it, moral and ethical guidance is imperative. Does this virtual experience of reality impair ones judgment of actual reality? The ethical and moral questions raised by this phenomenon are very important to preserving our continuous perception of what is real and what isn’t. This section of the research paper is going to explore the moral and ethical equivalents of participating in virtual reality. Questions about impairment of moral and ethical compasses will be answered. Psychological representations and definitions of VR will further enhance our understanding of how VR can be either be a tool for social reform or a danger to moral and ethical aptitude. A Third State of Consciousness Imagination is a very powerful exercise for escaping pain or peril. It fuels creativity and builds hope. It can also unconsciously or consciously be used to exaggerate fear that either imprisons or save us from imminent threats and danger. The human...
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...Are facilitating payments ethical? Why or why not? Discuss the legal and moral implications. A facilitating payment is referred to as, a form of payment, with which is made to foreign officials, yet it is not considered to be a form of bribery. Legally, facilitating payments are distinguished from bribery, yet this distinction possesses the ability to become blurred at times. The manner with which a facilitating payment is determined to be ethical, or non, is quite the difficult task for law enforcement officials. In most situations, law enforcement determines unethical practice based upon the surrounding terms, and conditions of the payment/gift. Less valuable "gifts" are usually considered to be ethically correct, yet larger, more expensive "gifts" poses the tendency to raise red flags in the eyes of law enforcement officials. Under those particular circumstances, law enforcement tends to examine the factors surrounding larger payments more intently. Small, minor valued "gifts" are considered customary, and legally acceptable in many countries, however, they do pose the threat of potential risk, in regards to liability, due to strict laws and regulatory guidelines, with which prohibit certain forms of "gift giving". Therefore, the terms with which surround this form of behavior, and the extent to which they are considered ethically correct or not, really depends upon the country with which this act takes place in. Also, one must note, that a "slippery slope" of danger...
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...and cross species transplants has brought the possibility of human-nonhuman into the forefront of scientific research for which we are ill prepared. There are three dilemmas that are shaping public policy, and constraining scientific research. These dilemmas are political, ethical, and moral. As we work to answer these dilemmas, we also stumble to maintain international leadership in scientific advancement. Chimeras are an interesting realization in modern science. A chimera was initially mentioned in ancient Greek literature as a beast consisting of a lion, a goat, and a snake. (Homer & Murray, 2012) This definitely sounds like an archaic depiction of a mythological creature, but the title also has some contemporary uses. In modern biology, a Chimera is simply an organism with multiple Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences. On the surface, this subject seems like an interesting biological focus, but one may find it hard to research this subject of biology without scratching the surface of the political, ethical, and moral implications that are part of the conversation when discussing the subject manner. The political, ethical, and moral implications that come...
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...Occupy Wall Street Movement Moral and Ethical Implications Occupy Wall Street Movement Moral and Ethical Implications The Occupy Wall Street Movement that started in September 2011 in Liberty Square in the Finical District was movement organized by people to expose corruptions in cooperate America. The Occupy Wall Street Movement was known, as the peaceful protest due to it’s non-violent, non-aggressive nature and spread to over a one hundred and fifty cities cross the United Sates. Moral and ethical implications are the essentially what is right or wrong This paper looks at the moral and ethical implications related to the movement and uses some common ethical theories to determine which applies best to the issues surrounding the movement. The Occupy Wall Street Movement began in Zuccotti Park in New York City. Being that the park was private police did not have the right to kick the group of protesters out. The pretest was the people’s reaction to cooperate greed, social inequality, and the power of big business over the democratic process. Their slogan was heard across America, “we are the 99 percent.” They believed that one percent of the population; the banks, the mortgage industry and large corporations were controlling all of the countries wealth and preventing the ninety nine percent from prospering (The Occupy Wall Street Movement, 2012). Thousands of people organized across the United States in major cites and college campuses...
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...ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Does moral leadership matter? MBA412-Fall, 2014 BIBHU DASH 2014 Contemporary Business Perspective and Leadership Skills Table of Contents Page # 1. Introduction 2. Basic concepts and analysis of Moral and Ethical Leadership 3. Definition of Concepts a. Defining Leadership b. Defining Moral Leadership 4. Current State of Knowledge a. Literature Review 5. Argument Map 6. Assumptions and Point of View by Stakeholders 7. Evaluation of Argument a. Wheel Of Critical Thinking b. Universal Intellectual standards Evaluation 8. Key Take-Away 9. Plan to enhance Moral leadership skills a. Plan Table 10. Bibliography 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 14 1 Introduction Does moral leadership matter? In my opinion, yes it really does matter. Even if for high organization performance the leadership has to focus on high shareholder returns, but it should not solely focus on returns by compromising boundaries of morality. In this paper we will discuss whether moral leadership is crucial for an organization to be successful. First, we will define what moral leadership is and will discuss what are the standards of morality that needs to be maintained in a high performing organization. Then we will discuss whether the moral standards will be same for both personal and organization or they will be different. Then we will talk about the current state of knowledge of this topic and the implications and recommendations that we have found from our literature...
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...Running head: ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice NRS 437V September 01, 2012 Appling Ethical Frameworks in Practice A conclusive ethical foundation in the healthcare arena is confidentiality. It is referred to the standard of maintaining secure and private from others health care information revealed during a professional consultation. This is an essential legal right of every client and an ethical duty of the medical community (Bourke, 2008). Maintaining confidentiality between the client and healthcare professional translates to a trustworthy relationship, especially with adolescents. This paper will discuss implications to breach confidentiality, ethical principles, alternatives and ethical committee applications to an ethical dilemma. Implications of Breach of Confidentiality To promote trust between the patient and healthcare provider is a good reason to appreciate confidentiality in health management. To release information to a third party without consent of the patient is considered a breach of confidentiality and illegal. For example, adolescents are encouraged to participate in health care prevention. Many are depressed and even sexually active, but the challenge to provide access and receive adequate care is necessary. Confidentiality is the primary reason this juvenile group deter from health care prevention and management (English & Ford, 2007). A breach of confidentiality in juvenile health care has...
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...Ethical and Moral Issues in Business October 24, 2012 Diane Marie Johnson Ethical and Moral Issues in Business Ethics and morals are often thought of as the same thing, but they are not. I will like to explain some differences between ethics and morals. Differences between ethical and moral issues, and the differences between personal ethics and business ethics. Morals are the basic guidance for personal character. They are what each of us has learned from our parents, church, teachers, friends, and society, and they habitually don’t change. They are what we believe morally, what our conscience allows us to feel. They serve as the standards we use as guides to control how we behave in our relationships with others. Ethics define how we act as individuals, how we structure our organizations, society, and laws. We have different types of ethics we have our general ethics, which are the standards we live by guided by our upbringing, and we have business ethics. Business ethics are the standards and expectations from our organizations. Business ethics guide how we behave within a business setting according to the organization for which we work (“Recent Work in Ethical Theory and Its Implications for Business Ethics,” 2010, p. 560). Many times a person’s morals may conflict or align with the ethical policies of an organization and may alter or influence our ethical decision-making process. Moral issues are the issues we face when we know we are doing the wrong or right...
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...It is often stated that the most important resource of any organization is the Human Resource. This essay addresses the relevance of ethics in Human Resource (HR) Management and discusses various ethical and motivational aspects, including ethical values and ethical decision-making. Ethics is an integral and vital aspect of Human Resource Management since most of our actions and decisions have ethical manifestations with consequential ramifications in the HR domain. There is a general belief that ethics is concerned only with financial propriety. Whilst this aspect certainly involves ethics, ethical management is all encompassing concerning each and every facet of your professional and personal life. There is a story, probably apocryphal, which illustrates this. There was a cyclonic storm and millions of fish were washed ashore and were struggling for life on the beach. A man came to the beach and patiently began to pick up the fish, one by one, and throw them back into the sea. An amused passerby asked him what difference it would make, to which the man pointed to the fish in his hand and said, “Ask this fish?” Thus, we see that seemingly routine decisions, which at the organizational level do not appear to have major ethical magnitude, have large ethical significance at the individual level. The purpose of this paper is to give you a basic understanding of the fundamental concept of ethics, to have you...
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...TUI UNIVERSITY Module 1 SLP: Ethical dilemma in the Military ETH501: Business Ethics Professor Dr. Michael Garmon January 13, 2012 Describe an ethical problem you have confronted in a business situation. It has been nineteen years since I initially raised my hand and took an oath to serve in the military. Since my initial enlistment there have been many changes within the organization and ethical standards of the Army. The ethical problem that I have confronted in the Military today has been to choose between the commitment that I made to the military, and my commitment to my family. Having to naturally make the decision that is expected of me has been a difficult task. Military Ethics provides the necessary foundation on which to explore the more intricate ethical issues facing those in uniform. However, how does one prioritize between family, and their duty to serve? The most recent missions of the Military are the War in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States has only formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times; however this is the most documented time that dual military families served over seas at the same time. The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers this year, helping the military accomplish its goal of 80,000 recruits. The Army recruited 80,635 soldiers, roughly 7,000 more than last year. Of those recruited many of them were first-time enlistments who had never served before. But many of them were dual...
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...THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGERS 'The moral responsibilities of managers, whether in the public or private sphere, generally include upholding the law, fulfilling the legitimate duties of their positions, observing relevant codes of ethics and otherwise abiding by generally held moral principles such as honesty and not knowingly doing harm.' (Teehankee, 2007) In the past, traditional duties of managers were recognised to only focus on administrative work and controlling the employees so as to ensure productivity was efficient and profitable. However, Henry Mintzberg, a Canadian academic, disagreed with the typical view of mangers and found that managers were not the 'robotic paragons of efficiency' that they were usually made out to be (The Economist, 2009), but were figures of authority that had great responsibility to ensure employees were happy, safe and motivated within the workplace. Mintzberg's book, 'the Nature of Managerial Work' looked at the different responsibilities and 'managerial roles' that are enforced on a manager today. He divided the roles into three categories: a)Informational b)Interpersonal and c)Decisional. Interpersonal roles are those important to the moral duties of a manager, and Mintzberg rated these just as highly as administrative duties. These interpersonal duties include role and moral responsibilities included being a “figurehead” for employees i.e. someone the workers can come to for help and who can voice the complaints and opinions...
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...Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice Grand Canyon University: Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare Lisa Firkus October 27, 2013 Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice Care providers strive to provide care that is patient focused that maintains confidentiality and respect. This paper is about the maintenance of patient confidentiality and the trusting relationships that must be maintained between the patient and the healthcare providers. Ethical Implications of Breaching Confidentiality Patients seek care and treatment in hopes of receiving confidential, unbiased, honest, and respectful treatment. They also expect that care providers maintain their personal values and beliefs related to their care. As healthcare providers, everyone has the responsibility to uphold the confidentiality of patients. Patient confidentiality includes information about the patient that is collected based upon what the patient reports and what the physician enters in the medical record. In a situation where confidentiality has been breached, serious implications can arise. A breach in confidentiality can result in a failure to respect patient's autonomy and poses a form of betrayal (Ministry of Ethics, 2012). The betrayal that can result in legal implications such a HIPPA violations but an even greater ramification can be the distrust of the patient and family in the caregiver and the healthcare system. Patients may also question the care provider's true intentions including values...
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...Legal Implications of Electronic Business Content: 1. Introduction 2. Issues surrounding the laws of E Business in Ireland and EU Countries 3. Legal Background 4. Licensing 5. Websites 6. Selling online and Distance Contracts 7. Recommendations Introduction According to research, Internet-based electronic business (e-business or EB) has been predicted to experience significant growth across Ireland and Europe. (Anderson Consulting 1999; Forrester Research 1999). Legal Implications The central issues of E-Business and the law include the development of E-Business, the role of consumers and regulation of E-Business in regards to consumer protection. E-Business is a new way of conducting business that takes place on the Internet, it has become an important way in which consumers purchase goods across the world as well as due to internet technology progressing rapidly in the last few years. Although E-Business has a big effect on the global trade, governments also have a large effect on the growth of E-Business on the internet by regulating is accordingly. As Governments set regulations for E-Business organisations managers are starting to worry if the regulations will be too tight or may reduce the market in the online trade. Regulation of E-Business is very important for the cyberspace market as it can help or stop the organisations working with E-Business, as well as being able to protect the consumers in the online market. Security...
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...Running Head: Portfolio Class Six Project Team Assignment Conclusion (Business, Virtue, and the Good Life Ethical Problems in Business MBA Master of Business Administration Submitted By Holy Trinity Bonita Boman, Brian Bell, Winnie Hollingsworth and Cassandra Warren We have discussed in these twelve chapters the ethical ways of conducting ourselves professionally and moralistically. While reading and discussing various chapters in this book we have concluded that moral judgments of certain business practices and their decisions to engage in those practices are influenced by their personal moral philosophies: for instance the intuitionists advocate striving for the best consequences possible irrespective of moral maxims; the subjectivists reject moral guidelines and base judgments on personal values and practical concerns; while the absolutists assume that actions are moral, provided they yield positive consequences and conform to moral rules; and the receptionists prefer to follow moral dictates but allow for exceptions for practical reasons. These variations, which are based on a variety of moral processes and have implications for ethical debates over business practices. Life is the process of self-sustaining and self-generating action. Life requires action, and action requires values. Upon each meeting we discussed argumentively about people’s primary choices, and that is to live or not to engage in the action required to further...
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...Distinguish between ethical and legal principles and practices and define your concept of ethical behavior as it relates to the purchasing and supply management function. The difference between ethical and legal practices is that ethical practices are based on personal responsibility while legal practices are based on the law (Rentmeester, 2006). They are still related because what you believe morally will determine exactly how you perceive the law. Many people do not perceive the same laws with the same meaning. The way I ensure that I am acting ethically is to tell myself for every situation never to lie, cheat, or steal. This would apply to the purchasing and supply management function as well. Never lie about anything, especially on paper because written lies often have more serious effects. Never steal from anyone, not money or supplies. Never cheat anyone, not employers or customers. Those are the rules I would go by. Discuss the concepts associated with managing relationships with potential or existing suppliers and the value of sound contract management (contract administration) and the legal/moral implications of not doing so. The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) sets some detailed principles that supply management personnel can abide by ethically. They include guidelines to follow which help aid in the process of handling several areas of the job, including conflicts of interest, personal purchases, and bribes. Contract administration spreads the responsibility...
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...Chapter 1 Ethical Reasoning: Implications for Accounting Ethics Reflection PENN STATE CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL: A CULTURE OF INDIFFERENCE What motivates an otherwise ethical person to do the wrong thing when faced with an ethical dilemma? Why did Joe Paterno and administrators at Penn State University look the other way and fail to act on irrefutable evidence that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had raped and molested young boys, an offense for which Sandusky currently is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence? According to the independent report by Louis Freeh that investigated the sexual abuse, four of the most powerful people at Penn State, including president Graham Spanier, athletic director Timothy Curley, senior vice president Gary Schultz, and head football coach Joe Paterno, sheltered a child predator harming children for over a decade by concealing Sandusky’s activities from the board of trustees, the university community, and authorities. The Freeh report characterizes the inactions as lacking empathy for the victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and wellbeing. Not only that, but they exposed the first abused child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child’s identity, of what assistant coach Mike McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9, 2001.1 McQueary testified at the June 2012 trial of Sandusky that when he was a graduate assistant, he walked into the locker room and heard sounds of slapping...
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