...| Concept of Ethics & Obligations | George Tenet: Ethical Dilemmas | | Vivian L Burke | | February 5, 2012 In his essay Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface, Dwight Waldo identifies and differentiates between private and public morality and notes that the two can often be at odds with each other. In Waldo’s opinion, the fundamental premise of public morality is that the actions and behavior of those in office or tasked with the representation of the public, should be done for the good of all. Hence it is about more than simply being honest, trustworthy and law abiding. Often personal, professional, legal and organizational goals are in conflict. The competent public administrator is one who in spite outside pressures, is able to juggle and overcome these conflicting ethical codes (White 2008). George Tenet was well liked, direct and loyal. Though he was not an experienced politician and lacking any experience in foreign policy and lacked military background, he was chosen to become the Director of Central Intelligence at the CIA. He inherited a CIA at a point of dismal morale. The agency suffered due to years of inconsistent leadership and direction. Tenet’s priorities were rebuilding the CIA, improving morale, advancing technological capabilities to acquire intelligence and to clarify and enforce the mission of the agency. The CIA continued to suffer intelligence blunders that were the basis of misinformation or lack of knowledge about...
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...Chevron’s Business Conduct and Ethics Code is the foundation of which the company’s core values are built. The principles that which Chevron stands for guides all business conduct and does clarify any misconceptions for any and all situations that may be encountered on the job. Furthermore, the code also provides a list of resources that may provide any assistance in resolving any issues that are not covered within the code. Within the list of resources, company policies and procedures are also available to help facilitate a resolution. Also within the resources are major concepts that are dear to the heart of Chevron. These concepts are the “Chevron Way, Operational Excellence, and Tenets of Operation”. (Chevron, 2011) These concepts will be discussed. The violation of any code articles and any policies within the code could result in disciplinary actions to include termination of employment and/or criminal prosecution. “Our company's foundation is built on our values, which distinguish us and guide our actions. We conduct our business in a socially responsible and ethical manner. We respect the law, support universal human rights, protect the environment and benefit the communities where we work.” (Chevron, 2011) These values encompass integrity, trust, partnership, diversity, ingenuity, protecting the people and environment, and high performance. Code of Ethics The Code of Ethics is utilized daily and possibly with or without your knowledge. It has become a part of all...
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...PROF : DR. ROSALINDA GOMEZ ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY We, teachers are a model to our students, co-workers and mirror to the community. So with this, teachers should wear good ethics in their life…. What is ethics? The word ETHICS derived from the greek word ETHOS which means “CHARACTER”. It is “mores” in Latin from which come the word moral and morality. definitions of ethics • It is the science of the morality of human act. • The study of man as moral being, one who is rationally able to distinguish being right and wrong. • It concern with the norms of human behavior. the act of correct living Ethics is an art… The art of correct living. Some philosophers regards ethics as the only necessary knowledge. ethics and the Filipino Filipinos believe in moral integrity as essential to life they also believe in a just society. However, some instances, show moral norms are easily ignored for personal interest. When we speaks of “living standard” we inevitably mean “economic” that is, higher salaries and low prices. Perhaps, we should think more of moral standard as our priority. ethics and religion Ethics and religion are both concern with moral education. But they are differ from each other, ethics teaches the value of religion, presenting it as a duty of man towards the supreme being. Religion on the other hand, contributes to the development of ethical thought. Thus, religion and ethics complement each other. ethics norms and law The laws of...
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...The Concept of Ethical Obligations Based on the case study, George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA August 1, 2013 Dr. During the presidency of Bill Clinton, 44-year-old George Tenet was sworn in as the eighteenth director of central intelligence on July 11, 1997. Tenet served in this position through two White House administrations. With this new role as director, his focus was to begin a rebuilding process of the agency. The CIA was in disarray when Tenet took over. The agency had suffered inconsistent leadership since the fall of the Soviet Union, and he was the fifth Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) in seven years. Morale sagged badly. Since 1991, the agency had lost more than 3,000 of its best people—more than 20 percent of its workforce—including many of its more experienced case officers (Weiner 2007, 470) “Tenet understood that managing a large and complex government bureaucracy would be difficult enough, but managing one that operates under a shroud of secrecy would challenge even the most talented and energetic leader. To complicate his task, the CIA at the time was really two separate agencies, each with its own operating procedures and organizational personality” (White, 2008). The agency budget was a mess, and there was no central accounting of funds spent. At the same time, the CIA had lost the technological edge that had enabled it to compete and triumph during the Cold War. The agency had not kept abreast of breakthroughs in private industry...
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...Introduction George tenet and the last great days of the CIA cases focus on ethics and public administration ,it is important to those who are studying in public administration because this case illustrate when the executive in public sectors confront with ethical dilemma which is the problem that usually face when working in public services because public sector are not private sectors which have the efficiency goal and make profits ,but those who work in public sectors are confront with the choice among efficiency equity moral and duty. The Facts and Chronology George Tenet was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 to 2004. Tenet graduated from the Georgetown University in 1976 with bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs, and received a master’s degree from Columbia in 1978. George Tenet is a product of Washington, during his career at Washington he was named to be workaholic straightforward and loyalty. After he had spent four years as a lobbyist, he stared his career in Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for Senator John Heinz. In 1985 he began working for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) which he had a reputation as an “effective and efficient staffer who served his boss well” Because of his loyalty, impressed by Oklahoma senator David Boren, he was appointed to be the director of the SSCI, one of the most prestigious positions on the Hill. Later, Tenet joined President Bill Clinton's national security transition team in...
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...Information Technology Acts Cassedra Burdios BIS/220 June 5, 2013 Kevin Brown Information Technology “Fundamental tenets of ethics include responsibility, accountability, and liability,” Rainer and Cegielski (2011). This paper will discuss two information technology acts; along with what ethical issues and information technology advances that caused the acts to be in place. According to Rainer and Cegielski (2011) “Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors.” The two acts that will be covered are the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA). The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is meant to protect collected personal information from children under the age of 13. The privacy act provides website operators with the requirements to maintain and protect children’s privacy. In this new century children are skilled navigators of the Internet, and are fascinated with the Internet and the pool of information they can access. Some websites are designed to gather and store information just from the child visiting different websites of interest this method of information is called a click stream (Coppa, 2013). Blogs and chat rooms are another source of obtaining information in an unethical manner, such as home address, phone numbers, and family member’s names. Websites also target children by tempting them with gifts or prizes to fill out...
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...2013 George John Tenet was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. He served under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties from July 1997 to July 2004 (Stillman, 2010). During the time George Tenet served in office he was dealt with many cross-coded ethical dilemmas. After the September 11 attacks several people disapproved of the Central Intelligence Administration (CIA) for many failures. They believed their slack on the job was one of the major reasons the September 11th attack was not prevented. Investigative journalist Bob Woodward wrote, “Tenet privately lent his personal authority to the intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq.” Tenet told President Bush in a meeting on December 12, 2002 there was definitely evidence Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. Tenet later denied saying that and believed his words were taken out of context. He insinuated he was only saying that as an option to convince citizens we should invade Iraq. Later it was proven there were no weapons. The end results were detrimental to his ability to impact as a leader. One of the cross-coded ethical dilemmas was the violation of national and international human rights. While serving under the Bush administration several accusations were made about the decisions made concerning human rights. George Tenet played a vital role due to his position and the decisions he...
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...Discuss why ethics is important in business. • Business Ethics paves the way for a common understanding of the fundamental idea of what is good and what is bad in our human conduct. Without ethics, people will set their own moral standards which would result into a kind of subjective morality. 2. Refute the businessman’s myth that “ethics has no place at all in business.” • Business is a social activity thus, being a social activity it should conform to the norms, rules and principles of this society. These standards are embedded in ethics. 3. Explain the phrase: “Not all that is legal is moral, but what is moral is worth legalizing.” • An action may be legal but not necessarily moral. Ethics provides a clear distinction between morality and legality. Consider abortion- in some countries abortion is legal but in the Christian faith abortion is an immoral act. 4. Define Business Ethics. What is your own personal definition of Business Ethics? • Business Ethics is the study of what is the right and wrong human behavior and conduct in business. • For me, business ethics is putting a conscience in the science of profit making. 5. Explain the phrase: “Ethics is the unwritten law written in the hearts of men.” • I interpret that as ethics has been a tried and tested guide of men in ages that have been handed down from one generation to another. These are actions that society consider as the proper action given a particular circumstance. 6. What is your personal view on profit-motive...
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...Ethics Essay In this essay I will compare the similarities and differences between virtue theory, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics. I will also include the following in this essay a description of the differences in how each theory addresses ethics and morality, and a personal experience to explain the relationship between virtue, values, and moral concepts as they relate to one of the three theories Utilitarianism is a moral theory that argues that an action is right if and only if it conforms to the principle of utility. The theory accepts as true that there was a need for society to rely on reason rather than metaphysics. The central tenet of utilitarianism is what is called the “Greatest Happiness Principle’. Because the human beings are rational self-interested creatures, they seek to maximize their pleasure and minimize their pain. Deontologists hold that right actions are defined by duty. Once we know what it is that we are duty bound to do morally, then we can carry out this ‘natural’ right action regardless of the consequences. What matters, they argue, is that we do what is right what is right, and what is right is that which conforms to moral law. The Virtue Theory concept is for human beings to live well. The end or final cause of human existence is eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is most commonly translated as ‘happiness’, but a more accurate translation is ‘flourishing’. Part of being human is to live a fulfilled life. A eudaimon life is a life that...
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...An Analysis of the Force By Anna Yellis In 1977, Star Wars was released. It became one of the most prominent movies in the twentieth century. It created the Force, and expressed a new set of ideas. While many came to believe that in Star Wars, the Force resembled God, it really did not. Many also thought that the Force was based on the twentieth century worldview, once again, it did not. Through analyzing the Force with the twentieth century and the Biblical worldview, it is clear that the Force has no resemblance to God and that its worldview is not part of the twentieth century or the Biblical worldview. Master Jedi Obi Won Kenobi first introduces the Force as he sits in his desert hut. Obi Won explains to Luke Skywalker the nature of the Force. He states, “The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.” The Force was an energy field that connected all living things in the galaxy. The power of the Force could be used by individuals who were sensitive to it. The Force gives powers to those who weld it, the Jedi and the Sith. The two main practitioners of the Force's power were the Jedi Order and the Sith. Usage of the Force granted a number of convenient powers, such as the ability to sense impending attacks; to push and lift physical objects; influence the thoughts of others, known as the "Jedi mind trick;” and even see the future or maintain one's...
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...Hospital Corporation of America vs. Tenet Healthcare Heather Darling 22-BA-5080-002 Summer Semester, 2014 SUMMARY Hospital Corporation of America as of now is the biggest player in the hospital care sector. Headquarter in Nashville, TN HCA has been very aggressive in acquisitions and developing all around the United States and in England. They are very quick to turn down a deal with another hospital if they believe that it will not be a profitable deal. One of the things that HCA has done to improve profits that not many other companies have done is to send customers that are not profitable to neighboring public health hospitals. This has increased their profits as well as their wait times in emergency rooms. On the other hand, Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a competitor to HCA, but has been slower to develop in the profitable ways of HCA. Tenet has taken a diversification approach recently in the urgent care business. They have recently opened 23 urgent care facilities, the first company in the hospital sector to do so. Many competitors, including HCA, are waiting to see how TCA does before also going this route. As of now Tenet owns the market in urgent care facilities but as profits increase, other hospital companies may go this route as well. The deal Tenet made with Vanguard is the biggest transaction Tenet has made and signals a shift from the company's problems over the past 10 years. Several Tenet-owned facilities underwent investigations in the early 2000s...
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...laws, and for other purposes (James, 2006). The provisions of the SOX directly or indirectly affects several business professionals, including CPAs, managers and executives, financial statement analysts, and even lawyers. The provisions of the SOX are described in eleven titles, each one including numbers of subsections. SOX also offers harsh penalties for SOX violations, which constitute violations of the Securities Act of 1934 (James, 2006). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will be explored and described and its intended impact to prevent unethical accounting practices addressed as well as an evaluation of whether SOX will be effective in conclusion, in the paragraphs that follow. The primary goals and tenets of SOX with respect to fraud The primary goals and tenets of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) are focused on making...
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...therefore management), as well as the embracing importance of family, clan and friendship. Confucian Ethics Confucian Ethics Thus, as in countries like Japan and China, the quality of the relationships developed are the real key to business success at both a personal and corporate level. The key to creating good relationships lies in one’s ability to play Confucian game….. “make a friend first and a client second” “make a friend first and a client second” * Honorable * Trustworthy * Respectable person The economic downturn experienced in South Korea during the Asian currency crisis (as well as many other Asian countries) precipitated a period of great introspection which has in many traditional beliefs and approaches being challenged both internally and externally. Thus, South Korea is a business culture at a significant crossroads with a great need to find an accommodation between traditional values and modern management practice. * South Korea Business Structures Korean companies have traditionally been characterized by a high degree of both centralization and vertical hierarchy. Large Chaebols (large business conglomerates)- a system where most decisions are executed at the top and delegated downwards along strong lines of authority. Basic Confucian tenets of respect for age, seniority, and family have ensured an adherence to and acceptance of this system....
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...Same sex marriage as defined in our text book, Doing Ethics, refers to the marriage in a full legal sense of gay and lesbian couples. (Vaughn 2013, p 451) Marriage between a man and a woman was instituted by God with Adam and Eve. According to the scripture, Matthew 19: 4-5, New Testament, Jesus reaffirms this “He answered, Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female: and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one?” However, the media is supportive and liberal in their views of views if same-sex marriage. Even the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines marriage as the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband and wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. But as the second definition, it states, the state of being united to a person of the same sex or a relationship like that of a traditional marriage. Same-sex marriage is one of the most controversial issues in the world. According to our text book, Doing Ethics, William Bennett warns of the dire consequences of legalizing same sex unions. He states that “the legal union of same-sex couples would shatter the conventional definition of marriage, change the rules which govern behavior, endorse practices which are completely antithetical to the tenets (a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy) of all the world’s major...
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...Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "ethics" as the "discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation," "a set of moral principles or value" or "a theory or system of moral values." Ethics assists individuals in deciding when an act is moral or immoral, right or wrong. Ethics can be grounded in natural law, religious tenets, parental and family influence, educational experiences, life experiences, and cultural and societal expectations. Ethics in business, or business ethics as it is often called, is the application of the discipline, principles, and theories of ethics to the organizational context. Business ethics have been defined as "principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business." Business ethics is also a descriptive term for the field of academic study in which many scholars conduct research and in which undergraduate and graduate students are exposed to ethics theory and practice, usually through the case method of analysis. Ethical behavior in business is critical. When business firms are charged with infractions, and when employees of those firms come under legal investigation, there is a concern raised about moral behavior in business. Hence, the level of mutual trust, which is the foundation of our free-market economy, is threatened. Although ethics in business has been an issue for academics, practitioners, and governmental regulators for decades, some believe that unethical, immoral, and/or illegal behavior...
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