...lifestyle with the pressures of cultural anxieties that come from the seven deadly sins in the late Victorian era. My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can’t stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call the vices of the upper classes. They feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself he is poaching on their preserves. (Wilde 18) The statement from the character Lord Henry describes the social boundary in the Late Victorian Era. Lord Henry points out that he wrathfully concurs on how the upper class feeds off the lower class. The upper class uses blackmail and scandals to keep the social balance of lower and upper societies in London during the Late Victorian Era. This passage from The Picture of Dorian Gray shows the character’s reflection of the Late Victorian Era’s cultural anxieties that brought out the seven deadly sins to the people in London. In London’s Late Victorian Era, cultural anxieties were pushed heavily to make society have a higher moral standard. The anxieties increased the moral standards that support sexual repression, low tolerance of crime, and strong social ethics. Late Victorians have encouraged hard work, respectability, social deference and religious conformity. Therefore, the Victorian Era’s...
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...Media Ethics - Assignment n°3 JOANA hADDAD MEADIA ETHICS _ RESCUE ME SPRING 2015 The new school Joana Haddad Media Ethics - Assignment n°3 I . Situation Rescue Me is a drama that centers on the inner working of Engine 62, a New York City firehouse, and the personal and emotional battles of its members in a post-9/11 world. The TV show is mostly centered around Tommy Gavin, a veteran firefighter whose life is in turmoil as he copes with stresses and fears of his job as well as the separation from his wife Janet. Tommy is lost, just like all other firefighters. In the June 20th, 2006 episode titled Sparks, Tommy Gavin was at a breaking point. The character was involved in a controversial storyline: Tommy flies into an angry rage, throws Janet down on the couch, rips her shirt off, lifts her skirt up, and basically ‘rapes’ her. However, the way the scene unfolded on screen, it was almost as if Janet enjoyed Tommy forcing himself on her. Janet never said the words “No” or “Stop”, she did physically try to get Tommy off of her when he first attacked her. But moments later she gave in, and seemed to approve what was going on. At the end of the scene, Tommy stood up, apologized for ripping her shirt, and left Janet’s house with a smirk on his face – he seemed quite pleased with himself. Television reviewers, bloggers, and fans complained about the scene. There was a debate about whether Tommy had raped Janet or not. Janet's reaction and Tommy's expression...
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...Employment-At-Will Doctrine Michele Evans Strayer University LEG 500 - Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Prof. Moses Cowan April 25, 2013. Abstract As a manager and supervisor of an accounting department within the company J & M Designs, it is necessary to meet with the newly hired graduate Jennifer Thomas. She was hired by our firm right out of college and is close to the end of her probationary period. However, it has been brought to management’s attention that she engages in a number of behaviors that need correcting. For each of her behaviors, management will describe what steps it will take to address the situation. Our company, J & M Designs, has experienced tremendous growth. To help us we recently hired a new graduate by the name of Jennifer Thomas. She was hired approximately 90 days ago by our firm. This is her first professional job since graduating. Although our firm is happy to give her this opportunity, her supervisor and other employees have experienced behaviors that need to be addressed. The employment relationships in Kentucky, like the state of Florida, have long been governed by the traditional “at-will” doctrine. Under the at will philosophy, “where the term of employment is discretionary with either party or indefinite, then either party for any reason may terminate it at any time and no action may be maintained for breach of the employment contract.” Smith v. Piezo Technology and Professional Administrators, 427 So 2d 182 (Fla...
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...Employment-At-Will Doctrine Michele Evans Strayer University LEG 500 - Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Prof. Moses Cowan April 25, 2013. Abstract As a manager and supervisor of an accounting department within the company J & M Designs, it is necessary to meet with the newly hired graduate Jennifer Thomas. She was hired by our firm right out of college and is close to the end of her probationary period. However, it has been brought to management’s attention that she engages in a number of behaviors that need correcting. For each of her behaviors, management will describe what steps it will take to address the situation. Our company, J & M Designs, has experienced tremendous growth. To help us we recently hired a new graduate by the name of Jennifer Thomas. She was hired approximately 90 days ago by our firm. This is her first professional job since graduating. Although our firm is happy to give her this opportunity, her supervisor and other employees have experienced behaviors that need to be addressed. The employment relationships in Kentucky, like the state of Florida, have long been governed by the traditional “at-will” doctrine. Under the at will philosophy, “where the term of employment is discretionary with either party or indefinite, then either party for any reason may terminate it at any time and no action may be maintained for breach of the employment contract.” Smith v. Piezo Technology and Professional Administrators, 427 So 2d 182 (Fla...
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...Crime and Punishment is no exception as Raskolnikov achieves salvation with the assistance of Sonia. Raskolnikov only obtains salvation after a lengthy internal struggle in search of his true ideological center to the point of considering suicide in more than one occasion on his journey to redemption. Within Raskolnikov, a battle rages on, as he wrestles with two opposed ethical principles: traditional Christian morality versus a secular moral code that a majority of Russians hold, with foundations built on logic and reason as opposed to foundations based on divine judgement. Over the course of the novel, Raskolnikov slowly becomes a follower of Christianity, sending him on a journey of spiritual...
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...Justifiable Terrorism in Total Wars Molly Thomson 201311503 Political Science 1000-03 March 18th, 2014 The word ‘terrorism’ instantly makes people shudder; the negative connotations and controversies surrounding terrorism in modern society are enough to spark a discussion of whether it is justifiable or not. In order to determine whether or not terrorism can be justified, a clear definition must be decided upon. Decades before the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the definition of the word terrorism was hard to define. Political figures around the globe argued and disagreed on what they thought should have determined the act of terrorism. Now, there are multiple different definitions originating from distinct cultures and societies, suggesting that terrorism is in the eye of the victim. One definition of terrorism is “any violent or criminal act planned for a political or ideological purpose”; while another claims that terrorism is understood to be a direct attack on innocents. Since both of these definitions have important components to them, it can be assumed that both traits are essential to defining terrorism. For the purpose of this paper, the definition of terrorism will be understood as ‘a violent attack on innocents for the purpose of political change’. It can be hard for most people to understand the act of injuring and/or killing hundreds, or maybe even tens of thousands of people, as justifiable. However, if the innocents are...
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...Electronic Surveillance of Employees Lilly Beth Rodriguez Dr. Williams LEG 500 October 18, 2011 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace Employee privacy rights are automatically granted and protected by specific labor laws, regulations and certain rules to follow, especially when it comes to employment. There are laws that already exist in our society today to protect the one employee privacy of over their personnel records, the use and storing purposes by employer over employee personal data. Especially, when the privacy falls into the subject of electronic surveillance by employer at this electronic age in the workplace. Most employees are becoming self aware and frequently increasingly concerned about their privacy on daily basis, as their employers are constantly monitoring them electronically way more obvious than ever before. Thought, attempt had been tried to block this sneaking activity, but the number of failures at some state whom tried to prevent this monitoring activity still failing, as employers always have some strong various reasons to sneaking into their employee. The reasons could range from monitoring or spying on employee email, phone line to internet activity with the reason to ensure the productivity of the employees at workplace. When it comes to employment, many employee privacy rights are granted by specific laws, rules, and regulations. Employees should always be treated with respect, dignity...
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...that a new industrial age—full of machines, buildings, and technology—had ushered out rural living forever, and the result was often a pessimistic view of what lay before humankind. Frequent themes in modernist works are loneliness and isolation (even in cities teeming with people), and a significant number of writers tried to capture that sense of solitude by engaging in stream-of-consciousness writing, which captures the thought process of a single character as it happens without interruption. Some of the most famous modernist authors include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. 1. Open form and free verse are distinguishing characteristics of modernist poetry. Though commonplace now, this style was quite a break from nineteenth-century rules about meter and rhyme. 2. The moniker “The Lost Generation” was coined by Gertrude Stein and refers to those artists of the 1920s who had become disillusioned with America and found themselves living as ex-patriots in Europe, chiefly in France. 3. An example of stream-of-consciousness (also called “interior monologue”) from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: “She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun. But she must go back. She must assemble.” 4. One of the most famous poets and influential critics of...
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...The Case of “El Diablo” E-Book MAN 104: Ethical and Moral Issues in Business and Management “NO, I WOULD NOT.” The Chartoff Publishing is as good as any other commercial publishing house doing business, to release their own e-book, the El Diablo Series as long as it is legal. And if they do not, then they should consider drafting a new Articles of Incorporation for the rebirth of a new business. And since I am the one making the call, yes, we might just do that. Changing the Articles of Incorporation might sound far too drastic and exaggerated for the purpose of resolving the ethical dilemma of the subject case study but it is enough to drive the point home. There was no very clear indication on how vulgar or obscene the El Diablo series might be, neither there were excerpts nor a detailed plot with which to accurately judge the potential harm and influence it might cause to its audiences. However, the hints are sufficiently suggestive to reason that releasing this product to the market would be a serious breach on different ethical standards as well as to one or two models of ethical resolution. The objective then of this paper is to perform an overall analysis on various factors at play that would justify the decision of “not selling the product” as ethically correct. The approach is to plot the arguments that support the alternative decision, that is—to sell the product and indicate why this would not work. And this is assuming people would care to do an...
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...CROSSROADS When I read the first draft of this manuscript it provided a genuine "aha" experience. I felt that "tempered radicalism" was a concept that had been waiting to be invented. Meyerson and Scully, in my view, have grasped an important idea and have written about it in a careful and an illuminating way. It's one of those papers, I suspect, that some people will react to by thinking: "I wish I had written that!" Further, I can see others I know well in the field as fitting the description of the tempered radical, at least in some circumstances and at different times. The reviewers, while suggesting changes, as reviewers do, were also very taken with the paper. It is intellectually interesting, and evocative. It provides us with a perspective on organizational issues that is typically glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization. Their radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges, angered by what they see as injustices or ineffectiveness, and inclined to seek moderation in their interactions with members closer to the centre of organizational values and orientations...
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...Chapter 7 Managing for Ethical Conduct Contents: (Please note: the Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.) 1. Chapter Outline 2. Teaching Notes 3. In-Class Exercises 4. Homework Assignments 5. Additional Resources Chapter Outline I. Introduction II. In Business, Ethics Is about Behavior A. Practical Advice for Managers: Ethical Behavior III. Our Multiple Ethical Selves A. The Kenneth Lay Example B. The Dennis Levine Example C. Practical Advice for Managers’ Multiple Ethical Selves IV. Rewards and Discipline A. People Do What is Rewarded and Avoid Doing What is Punished B. People Will Go the Extra Mile to Achieve Goals Set by Managers C. How Goals Combined with Rewards Can Encourage Unethical Behavior D. Practical Advice for Managers: Goals, Rewards, and Discipline E. Recognize the Power of Indirect Rewards and Punishments F. Can Managers Really Reward Ethical Behavior? G. What about the Role of Discipline? H. Practical Advice for Managers: Discipline V. “Everyone’s Doing It” A. People Follow Group Norms B. Rationalizing Unethical Behavior C. Practical Advice for Managers: Group Norms VI. People Fulfill Assigned Roles A. The Zimbardo Prison Experiment B. Roles at Work C. Conflicting Roles can Lead to Unethical Behavior D. Roles Can Also Support Ethical Behavior E. Practical Advice for Managers: Roles...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility: Shell Introduction An Overview to Shell Shell is a global company dealing in energy and petrochemical products. The company has its operation spread in more than 80 countries and has employed around 90,000 employees. The organisation helps to satisfy the rising energy demand in socially, environmentally and responsible way. During last few years, corporate social responsibility has been gaining more and more prominence and Shell had been one of the first organisations to weave corporate social responsibility into the firm’s business Philosophy. The group undertook a number of projects which all aimed at the sustainable development of those regions where the company carried out its operational activities. Across the globe, the Shell foundation, which was founded with an initial endowment of USD 250 million from Shell, has been actively involved in a number of sustainable development projects. The group’s initiatives were well appraised by World Environment Council. Corporate Social Responsibility Modern business is oblige to satisfy demanding environmental, ethical, commercial, ethical and public standards as specified by the wider society (Crane et. al., 2007; Burchell, 2008). It is an appraised fact these days that economic value enhances through voluntary cooperation between the companies and its stakeholders (Schwartz, 2011; Bacher, 2007). In Nigeria Delta, Shell has been accused of poor stakeholder management (Idowu...
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...Chapter 7 Managing for Ethical Conduct Contents: (Please note: the Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.) 1. Chapter Outline 2. Teaching Notes 3. In-Class Exercises 4. Homework Assignments 5. Additional Resources Chapter Outline I. Introduction II. In Business, Ethics Is about Behavior A. Practical Advice for Managers: Ethical Behavior III. Our Multiple Ethical Selves A. The Kenneth Lay Example B. The Dennis Levine Example C. Practical Advice for Managers’ Multiple Ethical Selves IV. Rewards and Discipline A. People Do What is Rewarded and Avoid Doing What is Punished B. People Will Go the Extra Mile to Achieve Goals Set by Managers C. How Goals Combined with Rewards Can Encourage Unethical Behavior D. Practical Advice for Managers: Goals, Rewards, and Discipline E. Recognize the Power of Indirect Rewards and Punishments F. Can Managers Really Reward Ethical Behavior? G. What about the Role of Discipline? H. Practical Advice for Managers: Discipline V. “Everyone’s Doing It” A. People Follow Group Norms B. Rationalizing Unethical Behavior C. Practical Advice for Managers: Group Norms VI. People Fulfill Assigned Roles A. The Zimbardo Prison Experiment B. Roles at Work C. Conflicting Roles can Lead to Unethical Behavior D. Roles Can Also Support Ethical Behavior ...
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...Chapter 7 Managing for Ethical Conduct Contents: (Please note: the Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.) 1. Chapter Outline 2. Teaching Notes 3. In-Class Exercises 4. Homework Assignments 5. Additional Resources Chapter Outline I. Introduction II. In Business, Ethics Is about Behavior A. Practical Advice for Managers: Ethical Behavior III. Our Multiple Ethical Selves A. The Kenneth Lay Example B. The Dennis Levine Example C. Practical Advice for Managers’ Multiple Ethical Selves IV. Rewards and Discipline A. People Do What is Rewarded and Avoid Doing What is Punished B. People Will Go the Extra Mile to Achieve Goals Set by Managers C. How Goals Combined with Rewards Can Encourage Unethical Behavior D. Practical Advice for Managers: Goals, Rewards, and Discipline E. Recognize the Power of Indirect Rewards and Punishments F. Can Managers Really Reward Ethical Behavior? G. What about the Role of Discipline? H. Practical Advice for Managers: Discipline V. “Everyone’s Doing It” A. People Follow Group Norms B. Rationalizing Unethical Behavior C. Practical Advice for Managers: Group Norms VI. People Fulfill Assigned Roles A. The Zimbardo Prison Experiment B. Roles at Work C. Conflicting Roles can Lead to Unethical Behavior D. Roles Can Also Support Ethical Behavior ...
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...Option 1 Discuss Marx’s theory of alienation and assess whether it is still relevant in the contemporary workplace. In a capitalism society of those days, workers worked solely for the profit and rarely any focus will be spared on if the products were of the social need. On top of that, while the social classing was still heavily emphasized, most of the employees were not given sufficient protection and the fundamental benefits as a committed worker. This brought to the rising of Karl Marx with the term ‘Alienation’ in the year of 1844, which reflected that things naturally belong together had been separated or to put another antagonism between things that were properly in harmony. Making this statement, Karl Marx attributed the cause of alienation to the systematic result of capitalism. From the term alienation, Karl Marx had classified it into four types of alienations, namely alienation from the product, alienation from productions, alienation from others and last but not least, alienation from self. Referring back to Karl Marx, alienation from products gives the meaning that the workers have no rights to decide what they are going to produce, instead they are only focusing on the profits while the social needs are entirely ignored. Alienation from productions refers to the condition whereby the workers are not allowed to develop freely physically and mentally, they are forced to cling to the rigid rules and regulations. For the alienation from others...
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