Summary of Lectures for Business Ethics Christian Chamorro-Courtland Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is an ethical theory which argues that the proper course of action is one that maximizes overall "happiness". Jeremy Bentham: “It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong”. Bentham is criticized for lacking a principle of fairness embodied in a conception of justice. Jeremy Bentham • Utilitarianism therefore contends that something
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Race‚ Prison‚ and Drug Laws—Impact of drugs upon the African American Community Studies show that “there are an estimated 1.5 million Black men in prison and another 3.5 million on probation. Black males make up more than 70 percent of the total prison population‚ even though they make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population” (Nealy‚ 2008). This can be due to the lack of education‚ the livelihood that person lived‚ drugs‚ violence‚ or many other situations‚ but my focus will be on the
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Phase One: Describe a Practice Problem A Description of the Practice Need Schools and Prisons in America are two of the highest populated institutions in America‚ those two facets originated the School to Prison pipeline. The School to Prison pipeline mainly impacts marginalized youth in oppressed neighborhoods. With the development of new policies and practices it is constantly shifting children out of the public-school system and into the criminal justice system. Children in poverty-stricken communities
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Stanford Prison Study (SPE)‚ Zimbardo carried out‚ an experiment. This experiment had 24 final participants. The guards’ task was to humiliate the prisoners and make the prisoners feel powerless. The result of this experiment was that the guards identified themselves as the in-group and the prisoners as the out-group. In SPE‚ the participants signed consent to be part of the study. The participants were debriefed and offered money at the end of the experiment. The researches were carrying out
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Andrew McClarren 12/1/12 Stanford Prison Study Paper The Stanford Prison Study was a very eye opening experiment because it was performed in 1971‚ before modern American Psychological Association guidelines were implemented. As young adults we’ve never seen anything like this experiment before. The power of this situation was exceptionally strong‚ especially to us. In the study‚ how easily normal students could be transformed into either a satanic guard or a submissive prisoner was astonishing
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Privately owned prisons began to emerge in the mid-1980s. These prisons emerged because of the ideological imperatives of the free market‚ the huge increase in the number of prisoners‚ and the substantial increase in imprisonment costs. (1) Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. Corporations such as Correction Corporation of America and Wackenhut promised design and management innovations without reducing costs or sacrificing
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still be capable of assassinating them for their wise words and leadership. Leaders like Marcus Garvey‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Malcolm X‚ already had strong voices of opinion then and would have even higher voices today. Taking that if with the advanced science there is today‚ we would be able to bring back in time the lives of Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and Marcus Garvey; for them to be able to be the same age they were while showing activism‚ and have an intellectual conversation
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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Total Quality Management Malcolm Baldrige and Philippine Version Award Arellano‚ Juan Marcos III F. Malcolm Baldrige Winning the Baldrige Award is about as good as it gets with respect to being recognized as a world-class organization. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is an award for excellence in quality improvement and quality management. The MBNQA acts as a vehicle to showcase exceptional US organizations‚ share best practices‚ facilitate organization learning and growth‚ and strengthen
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Most administrators support building‚ and feel new prison construction will improve inmate living conditions and perhaps relieve overcrowding; however‚ many observers have concluded that it will be impossible to solve the prison crowding problem by capacity expansion. Institutions generally have a long lead time between the point when policy makers approve their construction and the date
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