Running head: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Jennifer McDonald Legal 500 Professor KARINA ARZUMANOVA February 22‚ 2015 In ethical analysis‚ a stakeholder is a person or group whose interests will be impacted by actions or decisions by an organization (Halbert & Ingulli‚ 2012). Stakeholders include people who could influence project decisions. They also include people whose
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Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Steven E. Goodson Shaun M. Koenig‚ Esq. LEG 500 – Law‚ Ethics‚ and Corporate Governance August 19‚ 2014 Abstract PharmaCARE is on of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies. This paper will take a look at Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the work place and the world and how PharmaCare provided insight to their stakeholders CompCare and who takes on the overall ethical and social responsibilities
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and virtue ethics. Deontological‚ and teleological are considered action based theories of morality; they focus completely on the performance of a person’s action. Teleological or consequentialist is ones action judged morally right based on their consequences. When actions are judged morally right and how they conform to some set of duties‚ then it’s a deontological ethical theory. Both systems deontological and teleological focus on asking‚ “What should I do?” however in virtue ethics‚ it focuses
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WHAT IS SEXISM IN THE WORKPLACE “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear‚ but the triumph over it.” Nelson Mandela. Women make approximately seventy-seven cents for every one dollar that men make. Women are encouraged to embark on certain gender-specific career paths such as Nursing‚ Education‚ and childcare. Women account for about one fourth of are Congressional seats. Women only make up about fifteen percent of our Congress. Sexism begins really young from people telling young girls
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“Virtue‚ then‚ is a state that decides‚ consisting in a mean‚ the mean relative to us‚ which is defined by reference to reason‚ that is to say‚ to the reason by reference to which the prudent person would define it. It is a mean between two vices‚ one of excess and one of deficiency” Aristotle’s definition of Virtue of Character but what is it really saying. Let us define it with the Socratic Definition per genus et differentia. Let us break it into the three parts genus‚ species and the differentiating
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Workplace deviance is a can be a serious issue throughout the workforce. It can come in many forms such as gossip‚ poor management‚ stealing‚ lying‚ and tardiness or absences in the workplace to name a few. Many administrations strive to establish an atmosphere of conformity and teamwork to achieve maximum efficiency while creating a healthy corporate culture. Deviance can occur in any size of the organization‚ which in turn can sabotage any and all efforts. In the medical profession‚ as a future
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Philosopher Robert Louden presented a criticism of virtue ethics. Rather than arguing that virtue ethics as a moral theory is wrong‚ Louden argues that the agent-centeredness of values ethics fails to provide adequate guidance for the action of the agent‚ thereby making the theory useless and disregardable. Louden’s first criticism is that virtue ethics does not allow for actions to be viewed separately from the agent (Louden‚ 228). This focus on virtues and not actions result poses a problem when assessing
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“it is a person that is the source of value. A person is of infinite worth‚ and what a person has‚ what a person does‚ what a person believes‚ what a person enjoys are all dependent upon the person’s and the person’s autonomy. Kant says that the virtues themselves evenness of temper‚ patience‚ can be turned evil if they are used for evil” (O’ Sullivan & Pecorino‚ 2002). By the words of Kant it would seem that he believes that people have the ability to be good and bad but the choice between good
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discriminate against younger people. In general‚ Ageism give a younger person to generalized an older person as old as dirt. How ageism in the workplace affects employees? Ageism in the workplace may affect employee in many ways such as being overlooked to being a team leader‚ overlooked for promotions‚ early retirement‚ and salary increase. The ageism in the workplace tends to result in being terminated from the company because of increases in health
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Anthony B. Fielding Utilitarian‚ Deontological‚ and Virtue ethics The concept of utilitarianism is closely related to the philosophy of consequentialism. Basically this means that the moral and ethical value of a person’s action should be judged by the consequence of that action. Utilitarianism is believed to be the most important of the three ethical theories because it has helped shape our world’s politics‚ economics‚ and public policy. This ethical theory explains to us that we can
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