Business ethics - Canada's oil sands: "the most destructive project on Earth" or "ethical oil"?
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International economy
This document contains a business ethics case study that provides answers to the following questions : 1. Which actors have a stake in deciding whether the oil sands are an ethical source of oil, and why do you think they differ so much in their assessments? 2. How would you go about...
Code of Ethics: AI in Screenwriting
Practical guide - 3 pages - Corporate social responsibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the screenwriting business by building scripts, fine-tuning dialogues, and even suggesting ideas for plot development. However, it involves ethical challenges in its application, such as how to determine the rightful authorship of the script's...
'Right-to-Try' experimental drugs: an overview - Vijay Mahant (2020) - Public Health Ethics Issue
Text commentary - 3 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
In his article, Right-to-Try' experimental drugs: an overview, Vijay Mahant delves into the right to try (RTT) law on experimental drugs. Mahant, the founder of MediLite Diagnostika Inc., located in San Diego, has offered great insight regarding RTT, including its advocacy and criticism. The...
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility - published: 08/03/2024
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
The paper discussed is written by Dirk Lindebaum, Deanna Geddes & Yannis Gabriel, under title 'Moral Emotions and Ethics in Organizations : Introduction to the Special Issue'1, published in the Journal of Business Ethics in 2017. The authors propose to introduce the reader...
Comparative Research Project - Ethics of Vaccination
Summary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Vaccination gives humans and living beings immunity against some viruses, allowing humans and animals to live longer, as they can now be protected. Vaccination is a very important procedure in several countries, as it can provide people with general immunity. However, some vaccination campaigns...
Exploring Profit, Entertainment, and Ethics in Sports
Case study - 4 pages - Sport marketing
The commercialization of sports implies utilizing sports activities, events, and athletes for profit. This dynamic has turned sports from plain recreational activities into these multibillion-dollar industries. However, with this commercialization comes a complex dilemma: the balance between...
Ethics in Practice - Kenneth R. Andrews (1989); Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? - Robert Goffee (2006); What Makes an Effective Executive - Peter Drucker (2017) - Leadership and Ethics in Practice
Book review - 2 pages - Management
The essay "Ethics in Practice" by Kenneth R. Andrews analyzes an organizational ethical framework. The article, in its very essence, basically brings to the spotlight that an ethical standpoint is very much required to guide the strategic decisions and behavior of the company on the whole....
The Syrian Conflict: Effectiveness and Ethics of the Bombing by the United States, Britain, and France
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
An alliance led by the US, Britain, and France has been bombarding targets in Syria since 2015. Nevertheless, different events must be distinguished. On the first hand, some bombings took place in order to fight against Daesh. Iraq asked for the help of other countries in order to wipe out...
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
The document consists of three assignments which depend on the paper. The first assignment is to discuss a paper written by Dirk Lindebaum, Deanna Geddes & Yannis Gabriel, under the title 'Moral Emotions and Ethics in Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue', published in...
Professional ethics of attorneys (South Africa)
Law case study - 6 pages - Other law subjects
Mr. Matlou was the attorney at the state attorney who was briefed by the department of health to represent it as a defendant in the case L v MEC for Health, Gauteng. His conduct in the matter and the manner in which he dealt with it both before, during and after the trial, illustrates...
Apple: Ethics and Sustainable Development
Case study - 5 pages - Brand management
"The planet is not waiting. Neither do we.", "Products that consume so little energy is not common", "Investing in nature to offset our emissions should be expected", "Our business is carbon neutral, and by 2030, all our products will be too". Recently, Apple, the world's largest market...
Considerations when recruiting foreign nurses and the ethics of international recruitment
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
The nursing shortage has always been one of the biggest concerns in the healthcare field. Since nurses make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, many solutions for this problem have been presented: improving recruitment, offering opportunities for advancement, suggesting contracts with...
Corporate governance, ethics, and success in business
Essay - 2 pages - Management
When seeking to define exactly what corporate governance is, it is likely that an individual will come across a number of terms and ideas all in a single sentence. For example, one website defines it as "a term that refers broadly to the rules, processes, or laws by which businesses are operated,...
Criminal justice ethics
Essay - 2 pages - Other law subjects
The processes and systems set to prevent and mitigate crime, impose criminal punishments to those who violate the law and recommend rehabilitation is criminal justice. (Banks, 2013).Criminal justice ethics focuses on enforcement of the law being guided by social institutions and values. A...
Are there moral facts? Is there proof in Ethics?
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
Looking at the world of chairs, tables, atoms, one may not find moral facts anywhere. It has been proposed that moral facts are completely mysterious or that humans would have no knowledge on what makes things wrong or right. Another argument is that moral facts cannot be real due to the fact...
Vinten's summation : Ethics and Corporate governance issues
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of Vinten's summation of the whistle-blowing that “For one thing the whistle-blowing path is not easy, and the bee-sting phenomenon may often apply. One has only one sting to use, and by using it, may well kill off one's...
Ethics considerations when dealing with stakeholders, workers, in business
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Business ethics and moral obligations are vital and incorporated part in management of corporations. The corporations, failures have not done much in the acquisition of business and shareholders' trust. The management functions in a business are not all about intellectual execution but...
Ethics - Kantianism, Utilitarianism or Care Ethics
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
An action can only be good if the underlying cause is derived from duty to the moral ethics according to Kantian ethics. I other words, the morality of an action is evaluated based on the adherence to the rules set in a society. Therefore, compliance to the law, regardless of the...
NCAA Ethics Program
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The NCAA could have prevented the occurrence of the Scandals by encouraging a culture of self-reporting of the violation before they grew into scandals. At Penn State, Joe Paterno, the head coach notified the School officials of Sanducky's sexual violation towards minors. Further, the school...
Media Ethics, Accountability Systems-Theory of Media Gate keeping
Case study - 3 pages - Management
This paper will show that the role of ethics determining the content of media outlets is dependent on social demands. Ethics are present in every social function. They dictate the modes of communication and their application based on the propriety and social structures. Media...
Kant on moral autonomy - Ethics and Privacy
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Ethics are concerned with right and wrong in a particular society (Reamer, 2013). The definition literally means there are different definitions of ethics depending on the society. For example, there are assessments based on the intention of actions as well as on the outcomes of the...
Ethics in strategic management
Case study - 2 pages - Management
The past strategic management models focused much on application of resource and external threats. In the 1970s, the technique of strategizing thrived in business schools. Corporate strategy if defined as decisions pattern of a company that reveals and determine its goals, objective or purposes,...
Ethics and science: debate of urgency
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Ethics is a characteristic to every human action, aiming to facilitate the fulfillment of people. The science involves research and search for truth. In science we have an ethical as support for no mistakes, because the responsibility is part of ethics and is essential in the...
Philosophical Ethics: Equality Between Human Beings (women and men) and Animal
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Domestic animals such as horses, cats and dogs are common in most households of people who fight for human rights. Surprisingly, such people treat the animals badly and deny them the basic principle of equality that the same recognize should be extended to all members of their own species. The...
Pratt & Whitney Ethics and Social Responsibility
Case study - 14 pages - Educational studies
Corporate social responsibility, environmentalism and ethical principles provide a triple foundation of contemporary decision making concept for business and managing organization's activities. Considering that social awareness amongst the public and other interested stakeholders is increasing...
Balance of Ethics and Privacy in business (YourFace)
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Ethics is concerned with right and wrong in a particular society (Reamer, 2013). The definition means there are different definitions of ethics depending on the society. For example, there are assessments based on the intention of actions as well as on the outcomes of the actions....
Use of Animals in Lab experiments- Ethics, Merits and Demerits
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Animal experiment is the use of animals, mostly in laboratories to make inferences about human behavior, such as the famous dog trained by Pavlov when he was researching conditioning. He later used conclusions from the experiments to generalize about human behavior. Animal experiments also...
Social Work: Ethics and Values
Case study - 4 pages - Philosophy
Codes of ethics are regulations used to guide behaviors of professionals in an organization, which are written or documented. Counseling profession involves dealing with some crucial information that needs to be confidential. There exist principles and standards of ethics that are...
Review of Accounting Ethics
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The current environments are fairly conducive for business especially the accounting sector. Fast and former most, there is much pressure from the management. The companies and organizations put very high expectations that are next not impossible to reach. Accountants work extra hard to create...
On ethics as emotivism according to David Hume and A.J. Ayer
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Many philosophers such as David Hume in the 18th century and Alfred Jules Ayer in the 20th century have argued that ethical judgments are, in one sense or another, dependent on emotion and do not express knowledge of any objective truths. Hume was a famous essayist, economist, historian and...
