...Trident University Module 1 Case Assignment ETH501 Business Ethics Dr. Thomas Klein April 19, 2011 Abstract In recent news, several financial institutions including Bank of America have decided to stop processing payments and doing business with WikiLeaks. These institutions are arguing that WikiLeaks may be doing things that are inconsistent with their internal policies for processing payments, consensus dissolves around how to respond to the allegations. This literature review examines. The paper compares the Should Bank of America refuse to process payments and do business with WikiLeaks? WikiLeaks is an organization dedicated to bringing forward the truth about what governments and corporations are doing. This is what journalistic organizations are supposed to do. Governments and corporations can be very powerful and it is dangerous for the public to be uninformed about their actions. As WikiLeaks has become more effective in their mission to inform the public, governments and corporations have become more determined to silence WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has attracted substantial global attention concerning its release of thousands of confidential U.S. government documents including information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the financial industry like Bank of America. So the issue here is should one of the largest bank in the US; Bank of America stop doing business with WikiLeaks? According to a statement issued by Bank of America “This...
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...Module 1 Case Assignment ETH501: Business Ethics Saturday, April 26, 2014 A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of University of California In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Graduate Diploma in Master’s Degree in Business Management Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to provide a critical analysis of the 2002 collapse of Adelphia Communications as seen through the lens of Immanuel Kant deontological ethics. This analysis will be accomplished by providing a brief time lime of the Adelphia, identifying and discussing two key ethical problems raised and describing what is meant by deontological ethics. More specifically this paper will show how Kant’s Categorical Imperative (CI) applies to this scenario. The latter discussion will apply the deontological framework of business ethics to the two key ethical problems by constructing CI to the Adelphia scenario. The supporting material for this discussion can be found at Harvard University’s 2011 lecture: Justice, What’s the right thing to do? as presented by Professor Michael Sandel8. To examine the elements of the case, we will inspect the unethical behavior of five key figures culpable in the “rise and fall of the small town saga of epic dimensions8”. John J. Rigas (Founder), his two sons; Timothy J. Riga’s (CFO), Michael J. Riga’s (VP of Operations), James R. Brown (VP of Finance) and Michael C. Mulcahey (Director of Internal Reporting). By reading the case study we...
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...Touro University California Theresa Williams-Rivers Module 1 Case Assignment ETH501: Business Ethics Dr. Gary Shelton Saturday, April 26, 2014 A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of Touro University California In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Graduate Diploma in Master’s Degree in Business Management Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to provide a critical analysis of the 2002 collapse of Adelphia Communications as seen through the lens of Immanuel Kant deontological ethics. This analysis will be accomplished by providing a brief time lime of the Adelphia, identifying and discussing two key ethical problems raised and describing what is meant by deontological ethics. More specifically this paper will show how Kant’s Categorical Imperative (CI) applies to this scenario. The latter discussion will apply the deontological framework of business ethics to the two key ethical problems by constructing CI to the Adelphia scenario. The supporting material for this discussion can be found at Harvard University’s 2011 lecture: Justice, What’s the right thing to do? as presented by Professor Michael Sandel8. To examine the elements of the case, we will inspect the unethical behavior of five key figures culpable in the “rise and fall of the small town saga of epic dimensions8”. John J. Rigas (Founder), his two sons; Timothy J. Riga’s (CFO), Michael J. Riga’s (VP of Operations), James R. Brown (VP of Finance) and Michael...
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...Compassion for Immeasurable Sacrifices Module 4 Case Study ETH501: Business Ethics Compassion for Immeasurable Sacrifices Introduction The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act Of 2008 (ADA), section 902.1, (b) defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs definition of a disabled veteran classifies an individual with a disability rate of 30 percent or more, or a person whose discharge or release from active duty was for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty. The coupling of the ADA with the U.S. Veteran’s definition makes for a very dire societal footing for the countries returning marred daughters and sons. The question is does the same government, for whom they made personal sacrifices, owe a qualified candidate from a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) any preferential treatment such as a government contract on a sole source bid. This paper will examine the utilitarian and deontological considerations of the government when employing sole source bid method to SDVOSBs and Affirmative Action’s set aside program. Background In order to honor American citizens who have made significant sacrifices while performing their duty by serving in a U.S. military branch, the U.S. Federal government has made provisions for SDVOSB for the purpose of aiding the wounded and disabled veterans of...
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