Cultural Ethics Essays and Term Papers
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Educating Ethical Behavior - Aristotle's Views on Akrasia
EDUCATING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: ARISTOTLE'S VIEWS ON AKRASIA Deborah Kerdeman University of Washington "Can the teaching of ethics really help cleanse the business world of shady dealings?" Asked by Newsweek magazine during the height of the recent Wall-Street scandals,1 this query resonates with perennial concerns about whether or not virtue can be taught and how such instruction might best be effected. The problem, Newsweek declares, is not that students lack ethical standards or are incapable of
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Ethical Subjectivism
Ethical Subjectivism presents many problems since the main attitude is that feelings are the only determining factor in the decision making process. As we all know, feelings can be very misleading at times. We've all been in situations where we've felt strong about a decision and came to find out that our decision was the wrong one. If you used Ethical Subjectivism in the case study involving Happy Trails, you would never come to a
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Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture
Globalisation has made a great impact in the world by helping businesses, technologies and cultures spread throughout the globe. Today there is 12 times more world trade in goods and money than there was in 1945. (Globalisation and trade, 2001) While this can be considered as fact, there still remains a dispute about whether a global marketplace will be beneficial to everyone. Some people believe that globalisation does have the potential to create many opportunities
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Is the Issue of Borrowing Software one of Ethics? What Should Be the Christian Stance on “borrowing”?
Is the issue of borrowing software one of ethics? What should be the Christian stance on “borrowing”? The issue of ‘borrowing’ software is one based on ethics and morals. I would say that even those that consider themselves law-abiding citizens do piracy. It is something that happens so often, I would say, most do not even think about it. Say you are working at the office and are using a program that has been installed
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Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop
Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop Popular culture, otherwise known as “Pop Culture,” is defined by Encarta’s Online Encyclopedia as values that come from advertising, the entertainment industry, the media, and icons of style and are targeted to the ordinary people of today’s society. Some of the more influencing displays of pop culture today include movies, teen icons, clothing, celebrities, sports, and one of the most influential things, music. The music industry plays a huge role in
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Ethical Decision Making
Ethical Decision Making Ethics are principles that define behavior as fair and proper and they are concerned with how a moral person should behave when it comes to making an ethical decision (Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002). Evaluating and deciding among competing options is often key in making a fair choice since principles do not always dictate a single "moral" course of action. The decision of whether to lay off workers to enhance profits or
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Japanese Work Ethics Vs American Ethics
"For an American to consider the Japanese from any viewpoint for any reason, it is important for us to remember that they are products of a unique civilization, that their standards and values are the results of several thousand years of powerful religious and metaphysical conditioning that were entirely different from those that molded the character, personality and habits of Westerners" ( De Mente, p.19). To understand the Japanese, it is necessary to have
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Ethical Dilemma - the Advice Trap - Article Review
Ethical Dilemma: Advice After reading "The Advice Trap" article about the ethical dilemma that can arise from giving advice to clients out of the realm of certified expertise, one incident comes to mind. Although I have a small tendency to want to help and make suggestions when clients have needs that I can relate to, I realize the ramifications after I was on the other side of the advice. I was renting a space in
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Business Ethics
Describe an ethical problem you have encountered or might encounter in your workplace. How would you approach the problem and reach a decision to solve it? Business ethics defines how a company integrates core values - such as honesty, trust, respect, and fairness - into its policies, practices, and decision-making. Business ethics is, in part, the attempt to think clearly and deeply about ethical issues in business and to arrive at conclusions that are
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M&a: Culture Integration
In 2001, James M. Kilts, then newly appointed as chief executive officer of Gillette Co., replaced two-thirds of the company's senior management team and trimmed 3,700 jobs, more than 10% of the company's work force. Employees of the century-old company thought they had seen the shake-up of all shake-ups. Just wait until they see what Procter & Gamble Co. could have in store. In announcing the $52.4 billion takeover of Gillette, P&G's CEO, A.G. Lafley,
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French and Chinese Business Work Ethics
France is a country based on affiliation and relationships, where information flows freely and constantly between interconnected people. French employees do not always need as many details and instructions when performing a task or managing a project. Giving too much information might sometimes be considered an insult or a threat to French pride and intelligence. The French cultural translation of work ethic is professional conscience. Expressed at the individual level, such a moral notion does
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Ethical Issues
1. Introduction For most successful companies the external demands are increasing. It was not so long ago that businesses only focus was economic growth, however, today's society is demanding much more from businesses. Society is looking at not only if a company makes money but how it contributes to society. Society is insisting that companies change their focus to incorporate social, cultural and ethical responsibilities. British American Tobacco has done just that and the subsequent
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Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society
The professor of my linguistics anthropology course this year, stepped up to the podium on the first day of class, and surprised us all with his feelings regarding language. He began by telling us that he specializes in human misery, perhaps insinuating language is a source of misery. Dr. Song is a Korean immigrant and the sounds of his own language repulses him. Growing up in modern society America has made him cringe at the
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Ethics Paper
When we are called upon to make decisions, several factors are taken into consideration before this decision can be made. Depending on the type of decision, such factors could be cultural beliefs, personal beliefs, and organizational beliefs. We have come to realize that there are fundamental challenges in trying to apply ethical principles in a cultural and organizational environment. Each culture has unique distinctions in values, which may or may not be considered ethical by
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Corporate Ethics
Sometimes political leaders are elected because of the wrong assumption that they possess certain core values ranging from helping the poor, relieving citizen hardship, improving the quality of life of the middle class and saving the environment,. What is unfortunate is to see that values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility that were previously taken for granted, are now strongly questioned. Many values are preached but no longer followed. History reported that when a corrupted
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Ethics
Introduction Over the years, many people and organizations have debated about the degree of influence that ethics have on marketing communication as a whole. There are a great number of advertising and marketing communications messages who have generated accusations in regard to the integrity of the profession. For instance, marketers prepare deceptive and misleading advertisements, and then create advertisements linked to bad habits and intimate subjects and so on. Some inappropriate actions have led to
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Ethical Standards
Have you ever heard of Halliburton? Halliburton is a company well known for their breakthrough technologies and monumental constructing infrastructure projects for certain military operations. Halliburton have been leaders in the energy, engineering and construction industries. Halliburton grew from the risk-taking entrepreneurialism of Erle P. Halliburton, who established the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma in 1919. Simultaneously, the Brown brothers, George and Herman, partnered with their brother-in-law, Dan Root, to found Brown
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Business: Practical Application Vs. Ethics
Business: Practical application vs. ethics Pete Holiday said "Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope." It seems that college is just training for a businessperson to deal with that tug of war. Michael Inciardi, a York College Senior, thought that one of the most important skills he acquired from
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Ethics
Question Number Four: Does Vance have a moral obligation to help his aged parents financially, despite the opposition of his partner Lola? (Ruddick and English) Ethics is the study of human conduct or in other words the study of moral behavior. All human beings use ethics in their daily actions and decisions, but few have the opportunity to probe into the core of ethics. When Socrates said in 399 B.C., "The unexplained life is not
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Japanese Work Ethic
The work ethic of Japan could not be more different to the work ethic of Canada. Japanese culture is very different from the Canadian. All aspects of Japanese life, especially business relations, are governed by strict rules of etiquette. A foreign business person who is either ignorant of, or insensitive to, Japanese customs and etiquette needlessly jeopardizes his company's prospects in this country. It goes without saying that the Japanese work ethic and culture
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Ethical Dilemmas & Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios
Ethical Dilemmas & Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios I was an ICU nurse for 18 years and I decided to leave bedside nursing in 1999 when I found myself standing in the doorway between two patient's rooms, which both had alarms going off. I was being forced to care for three critical patients that night. I left nursing because as I stood in that doorway I realized that in choosing which room I was going to
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Business Ethics
Thesis Ethics are the rules or moral principles that individuals or group of individuals agree on and use as aspiration goals (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2003). Businesses that enforce and abide clear ethical standards or ethical code of conduct create ethical working environment. Business’s ethical working environment creates better reputation that brings more trust and profit from clients and dedication from employees. Companies that operate unethically often are not successful in a long run, they
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Management Planning and Ethics
Mgmt Planning and Ethics Renee A Nasco MGT330 Timothy J Shobbrook April 8, 2006 Management Planning and Ethics In Chapter 4 of Management: The New Competitive Landscape, it is explained that “planning is the conscious, systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities that an individual, group, work unit, or organization will pursue in the future.” (Bateman & Snell, 2004) Planning provides employees with a clear chart of what the company expects to
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Ethics in Vietnam
In order to be successful with business practices in Vietnam, you must be aware of the ethics in that particular country. “Transparency International, a global counter-corruption watchdog, ranks Vietnam as the second most corrupt country in South-East Asia, based on a survey of international businessmen” (economist.com). The corruption is very much widespread and must be taken into account when doing business in the country. Aside from being a very corrupt nation, the workforce struggles with
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Business Law and Ethics : Physicians and Professional Secrecy
Introduction Our law enforcement officials have a duty to protect citizens as well as discourage crimes from taking place. Our health care officials also have a duty to provide the best care possible to those who need it. Often enough, there have been many cases where both parties have come in contrast with each other on different levels of professionalism. The ultimate debate arises when doctors and law enforcement take into account the respect and
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