Employment-At-Will Doctrine LEG 500 – Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Professor: Renee Berry Strayer University April 29, 2014 Employment-At-Will Doctrine The unethical treatment of employees is a subject that have been discuss for long time in the business field and that also have been treated and sometimes improve with the application of different doctrines or even inside rules of the corporations in the work field. Bowie and Werhane (2005) claim that “managers
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interest among US companies to corporate social responsibility as a way to benefit both the community and the organization. This paper will briefly compare and contrast the various theories of economic Justice of Fairness, Distributive Justice, Utilitarianism, Capitalism and Morality, and Socialism; and reveal the one theory I believe to be the most practical; and the best theory of economic justice as it applies to the “fairness in hiring and promotions, and employees’ rights and duties.” Justice
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comprehension of all four ethical perspectives. They assist in the process of identifying and defining problems, forcing individuals to think systematically why encouraging them to assess problems from different vantage points and thus, provide decision-making guidelines (Cremer et. Al 2011, S3). 2.1. Utilitarianism In
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their interactions and will even forgo economic benefits in order to maintain a fair system. | | 4. An organization can be convicted of a crime even if only one employee breaks the law. | | 5. Absolute good is a concept most aligned with utilitarianism. | | 6. The more a firm demands unquestioning obedience to authority, the more likely the firm will experience higher levels of unethical conduct among employees. | | 7. Key elements of the shared community worldview imperative include
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Utilitarianism – The primary decision criterion for utilitarianism is if a decision or act would lead to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. An example would be a patient is on the waiting list for an organ and as a result decides to make a sizeable donation to the hospital..Because of this donation the hospital will benefit tremendously and as a result the patient’s status on the waiting list changes. One large problem with Utilitarianism is that it justifies things that are clearly immoral
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their interactions and will even forgo economic benefits in order to maintain a fair system. | | 4. An organization can be convicted of a crime even if only one employee breaks the law. | | 5. Absolute good is a concept most aligned with utilitarianism. | | 6. The more a firm demands unquestioning obedience to authority, the more likely the firm will experience higher levels of unethical conduct among employees. | | 7. Key elements of the shared community worldview imperative include
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of the social contract theory and the contributions made to it by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Rawls. Then, the work of Niccolo Machiavelli and the notion of Reason of State will be examined, followed, in turn, by Utilitarianism, commenting on the contributions of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. This will be done before going onto balance the essay by introducing a counterargument offered by Idealism. Finally, to contextualise the thesis, there will be a contemporary
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Chapter 1 Nature of Law | Definition of Law “a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong’ (Blackstone)Functions of Law to maintain stability in the social, political, and economic system through dispute resolution, protection of property, and the preservation of the state, while simultaneously permitting ordered change. Legal Sanctions are means by which the law enforces the decisions of the courts.Law and Morals
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then check each box that contains that attribute. You may insert or delete rows as necessary. |Attribute |Teleology |Deontology |Utilitarianism |Egoism |Relativist |Virtue |Justice | | |Assess the moral worth |Focuses on the rights of|important philosophies | important philosophies |Definitions of ethical |Based on an individuals |Based on perceived | |Similarity
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of Ethics http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v2n1/calculating.html in ethics, the theory that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness in bringing about the most happiness of all those affected by it. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism, which advocates that those actions are right which bring about the most good overall. Jeremy Bentham identified good consequences with pleasure, which is measured in terms of intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity
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