LIFEBOAT ETHICS (Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil) Nancy Scheper-Hughes NORTHEAST BRAZIL * Rural areas – farms and ranches‚ sugar plantations and mills * Vast region of equally vast social and developmental problems * River is heavily infested * Its nine states are the poorest in Brazil and are representative of the Thirld World * High rate of infant and child mortality. Life expectancy – 40 years; 1 million children die annually * Women are forced into
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ELEMENTS OF AN ETHICAL ORGANIZATION There are at least four elements which exist in organizations that make ethical behavior conducive within an organization. The four elements necessary to quantify an organization’s ethics are: 1) Written code of ethics and standards 2) Ethics training to executives‚ managers‚ and employees 3) Availability for advice on ethical situations (i.e. advice lines or offices) 4) Systems for confidential reporting. Good leaders strive to create a better and more
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Applied Ethics Abortion 1. Abortion is an “act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating‚ or allowing another person to terminate her pregnancy”. (Mary A. Warren) • The women’s liberation movement in the 1960s is a movement for independence of women from men‚ for equality of gender and for women’s rights. It leads to the debate over whether women should be given a right to abortion on demand. • Is abortion morally permissible or impermissible‚ right or wrong? 2. Two theoretical
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Criminal Justice Ethics Tutorial I would remain truthful to myself and of my obligations and responsibilities as an officer. I would take full accountability of policies and procedures that’s followed with the duties of my position. Although my partner didn’t take the responsibility by following the rules of contacting the teenagers’ parents or video tapping the interrogation questioning‚ I would have to think logical about the actions I should take to fix this problem. Do to the fact my partner
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Ethics and sweatshops Companies want to maximize profits‚ while employees want to maximize salaries and benefits. Unfortunately these two desires do not always go hand in hand. The best way for a company to treat its employee how they wish to be treated. Make decisions that are in the best interest of all stakeholders. The Golden Rule still holds true. Companies have a responsibility to its employees and employees have a responsibility to its employer. When leadership treats its workers unfairly
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ACCG 399 Reflection Learning Log Lecture 1 Financial Accounting is highlighted in the lecture. There are two key points of financial accounting. Firstly‚ financial accounting is a process involving the collection and processing of financial information to meet the decision-making needs of parties external to an orgnisation. The other one is related to laws and accounting standards‚ external reporting‚ financial statements‚ values and material‚ independent audit opinion‚ overview general purpose
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Ethics on Abortion There are many ethical issues that are argued over in society. One highly controversial issue however‚ is the problem faced with opposing beliefs on abortion. Abortion‚ literally meaning “the deliberate termination of human pregnancy‚” is the issue commonly addressed by the liberals and the conservatives. Each side has its own philosophical theory on the situation. The liberal theory suggests that a women has the right to decide what happens with her body. The conservative outlook
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Topic 1 1. The course Business and Society is about a. Nature of work b. Ethical issues c. Sustainability d. Professional life e. All of the above[pic] 2. Which of the following is not considered as a business? a. The Reject Shop b. The local fruit and veggie enterprise c. Southern Region Waste Resource Authority d. Advanced Recycling Technologies [pic] e. Origin Energy 3. Which of the following is not considered as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) a. Greenpeace
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2: Integrity Article Integrity: Without It Nothing Works I have learned a great deal about the difference between integrity‚ morality‚ and ethics. From the article‚ the term integrity means that it is “a matter of a person’s word—nothing more and nothing less”. It is important that one should know the difference between integrity‚ morality‚ and ethics. I learned that integrity is more on the commitment a person makes and keeps to fulfill what he/she said he would do. I feel it poignantly relates
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NAME : ISHAK BIN AB GHANI MATRIX ID : 2011424226 SUBJECT / CODE : OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT / OPM 770 Case 1: Leman Ethics 1. Identify and discuss the major issue(s) in the case. i. Leman’s dilemmas on unusual opportunity vs. ethics of Leman’s organization. ii. Leman’s proposal to make-to-hold arrangement‚ with result approximately 10% saving. 2. What are the key facts of the case? i. Perjawa Steel is one of the distributors ii. There is a luxurious treatment offered by the Perjawa
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