BUSINESS FACULTY Course Handbook 2015–16 BUSI1314 - Business Ethics Level 5: 15 Credits Contents 1. WELCOME .......................................................................................................... 3 2. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE ............................................................................... 4 1.1. AIMS .............................................................................................................. 4 1.2. LEARNING OUTCOMES .
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Recently the city of Bakersfield had a legal case that created controversy and raised ethical questions about the motives of the parties involved. The case of Tastries Bakery vs. Mireya and Eileen Rodriguez- Del Rios pertained to a bakery owner, Cathy Miller who refused to bake a custom order wedding cake for a same sex couple, the Rodriguez Del Rio’s. This case raised issues and concerns not only within the community of Bakersfield but across the nation in regards to business owners and their
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Applying a Decision-Making Framework 1. Who are the stakeholders involved in this decision? The stakeholders that are involved in the decision making process would be Linkage Construction Inc. 2. What are the ethical issues involved? The ethical issues this are involved in this scenario is that Anne Distagne, the CEO of the construction company say that the company’s profit was up above what it was last year, the profit was showing a 35% gain over last year. Anne suggested
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Where is the center of the 3 dimensions of actions (ethical, legal, prudential)? In reality, human mankind always comes across situation, occasions, or even dilemma, consisting of the ethical, legal and prudential elements. According to the 3 dimensions of actions, we should try to select within these frameworks, while the best solution always lies among the center of these 3 dimensions. From “Ethics for the Real World” by Ronald A. Howard and Clinton D. Korver, I understand there are a lot of
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Ethical Dilemma: Disclosure of confidential information and a duty to protect The job of a nurse is multifaceted. They are leaders, they are teachers, and they provide therapeutic nurse-client relationships. According to a recent poll conducted by Gallup (Newpart, 2012, para. 1), it should come as no surprise that the nursing profession is viewed as the most trusted profession where honesty and ethical standards are concerned. Nursing, like many other professional industries, have standards of practice
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Journal of Intercultural Management Vol. 3, No. 2, October 2011, pp. 113–125 Adrian Pyszka Michał Piłat Cracow University of Economics Applying trompenaars typology of organizational culture to implementation of csr strategy 1. Introduction Nowadays many authors declare Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in strategic terms as it is no longer seen as the invention of some social activist but important source of competitive advantage. However various researchers still struggle to figure
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Running head: WHAT IS HUMAN SERVICES? 1 What is Human Services? Jacque Engel BSHS 301 August 31, 2011 Reina Menasche WHAT IS HUMAN SERVICES? 2 What is Human Services? Taking a walk through four chapters of Introduction to Human Services by Martin (2007), we begin to grasp the wide variety of skills involved in the Human Services field. There are hospice agents spending time with the terminally ill and activists lobbing in the prevention of child abuse, each having the ultimate passion
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religions, and policies. Ethical behaviors are generally derived from experience and common sense. It is been argued that Ethics are not considered as benchmarks, however, groups of individuals constitute the power of firms and bad ethics will be driven out by the majority of opinion. Obviously issues that have ethical overtones are presented to everyone, and they make decisions on those issues. Are those ethical decisions? We try to imagine that only the 'right' choice is an ethical decision. But often
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Social Responsibility & Starbucks BAMMC – BA Thesis May, 2012 Abstract Organizations today are experiencing increased pressure from their surrounding environments to act as good social citizens while still being profitable. Acting social and ethical responsible has become an expectation rather than a differentiation strategy to obtain organizational legitimacy. Therefore, this thesis examines how the very successful global coffee company, Starbucks, communicates its CSR initiatives through its
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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
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