Ethical Consumer Essays and Term Papers
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Business Ethics
The four ethical perspectives include character, obligation, results, and equity; thus, making up CORE. These different ethical perspectives help to explain what drives an individual’s decision when faced with an ethical dilemma. It is easy for someone to say what they will do when faced with an example of an ethical dilemma; however, it is another thing to make that same decision when faced with an actual real-life ethical dilemma. By understanding what perspective compels
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Merck- Ethical Background
The company that I chose to research is Merck & Co., Inc. Merck is the leading research -driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint ventures. Merck is a publicly traded organization that has expanded globally. The mission of Merck is to provide society with superior products and services by developing innovations and solutions
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Academic Ethics and College Sports
Over the past 40 years, college athletics has gone beyond a localized fan base to the realm of big business. As schools work to compete with one another not only in the game itself, but with obtaining and maintaining the best recruiting prospects, ethical academic behavior has become suspect in many of the major programs throughout the country. According Executive Director Tim Dodd of the Center for Academic Integrity based at Duke University, nearly 70%
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Ethical Investments
Ethical investments are similar to traditional investments with only one difference. Both traditional and ethical investors pursue the same goal of capital gains, higher income and/or preservation of capital for future needs. "The major difference between traditional investors and ethical investors is that ethical investors do not want their investments going for things that cause harm to the social or physical environments. Instead they want their investments to support needed and life supportive goods and
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Philosophy: Ethics - to Clone or Not to Clone?
Philosophy: Ethics To Clone or Not To Clone? Cloning is the production of a group of genetically identical cells or organisms, all descended from a single individual. All clones have exactly the same characteristics and precisely the same DNA as their host cells. Their have been many debates about the moral ethics of cloning in recent years. Many people believe that cloning is immoral and that we are “playing God”. Most people do not know
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Workplace Ethics
I can describe ethics in the workplace as the right way to act on the job, whether you are the manager or the employee. You can use ethics positively the right way or negative and possibly get yourself and or others fired. I worked at Target for two and a half years and I only have experienced one negative ethical situation. I was hired at Target to be an overnight stocker during Target’s remodeling.
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Organ Transplantation and Ethics
Organ Transplantation and Ethics When looking on the face of it, there seems to be little reason to question the ethics behind the idea of transplanting organs. Transplanting organs is arguably one of the greatest achievements of today. Tens of thousands of people are given a chance to start a new life through the selflessness of others. Even though this is the way things look, unfortunately right under the surface lurks a jungle of ethical
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Healthcare and Ethics
With 45 million uninsured in America the healthcare controversy combined with the immigration issues will not be subsiding anytime soon. There are those that believe there is a right to healthcare and there are those that think our borders need to be closed with no pity for those that have crossed into our country illegally. John Rawls believes in a certain amount of rights. Those that can be divided into positive and negative rights, and
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Business Ethics
Most international students spend the first few weeks in Champaign settling in and getting adjusted. Adjustment, however, is often not accomplished in the first few weeks. Adjustment is an on-going process. We hope that the following information will help you to understand this adjustment process, and provide you with some ideas on how to overcome culture shock. • Four Stages of Cultural Adjustment • Tips for Coping with the Hostility Stage ________________________________________ The Four Stages
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Organizational Ethics Issue Resolution
Organizational Ethics Issue Resolution Organizational Ethic Issue Resolution An organization that lacks a true culture of ethical compliance can create problems with integrity issues with stakeholders and customers. When a major company such as Enron, was structured their approach to ethics on the surface appeared to oppose progressive innovation. The policies and ethics programs were set up to protect the company and its shareholders. According to author Berenbeim, The Enron company had a detailed code
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Marketing and Sales: Conflict and Cooperation in Consumer Product Organizations
Some might consider sales and marketing synonymous, one task split into two. However this could not be further from the truth. Sales are activities that lead to closing the deal and signing an agreement or contract. Marketing is the courses of action implemented to reach and persuade prospects (Lake, n.d.). The relationship between these two departments is analogous to the sibling rivalry of Siamese twins, joined at the hip and constantly arguing. Different in culture
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The Ethicality of Stem Cell Research
The Ethicality of Stem Cell Research Stem Cells and stem cell research alike are both a daunting and complex subject to the uninformed. The average American hears of the issue on a daily basis it seems – primarily the strife instigated by institutions with a “revivified” bioethical code. Yet, the average citizen has no idea, or any valid conception of what encompasses the study, or the true use of the cells themselves. Ask a person
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Planning and Ethics
AIM Investments is a mutual fund company that is located in Houston’s Greenway Plaza. Founded by Ted Bauer in 1976, the company has grown from a handful of investors and employees to one of the leading fund companies in the United States with over 2000 employees. This paper will describe the organization’s structure, the communication processes within the organization, and suggestions for solving communication problems. AIM’s organizational structure, as a whole, appears to be dominantly
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Ethical Considerations Behind New Alternatives to Abortion
Eric Bronkhurst Prof. Robinson 10/31/06 Question #2 With technological advances of today, parents who are unable to substantially procreate are now given the opportunity to bear children. New techniques for procreation include Artificial Insemination, Surrogacy and In-Vitro Fertilization, all which have brought about happiness to families. Unfortunately, at the same time many of these new reproductive techniques may bring about ethical considerations and debates, causing pain and legal arguments. All of these ethical considerations warrant
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Ethics Article Review Paper
Ethics Article Review Paper (Revised) Shirley Smith University of Phoenix FIN 324 Walter P. Lambert December 1, 2006 A study done between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, looking at various ethic theories, such as stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy theory. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses
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Consumer Relations
Successful business owners train their salespeople to develop a foundation of strong customer relationships. Why? As with every other purchase decision, individuals prefer to do business with people they like, with people who seem genuinely interested in them, and with people who really care about their concerns. So unless salespeople are willing to appropriately start and then nurture the customer relationship, customers won’t return and they certainly will not refer their friends. Some company leaders
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Ethical Dilemmas
There are many ethical dilemmas/cases throughout history, today I would like to address two issues/dilemmas that I believe have impacted and helped reshape our stances upon medical ethics. The first issue in which I would like to address to Physician Assisted Suicide or sometimes referred to as PAS. Many people have varied viewpoints on this topics ranging from patient suffering, patient rights to patient-physician trust. This point has been battled over and over again by
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Ethics in an Academic Environment
Plagiarism, the dictionary defines it as the taking of ones ideas and using them as your own. It is not just ideas, but also works published by another. It is highly unethical in all aspects of life, and the academic environment is no exception. By plagiarizing another's works, you are not only hurting them but you are cheating yourself. If you think that plagiarism is only done by students of today that spend too much
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The Land Ethic
In the article “The Land Ethic” by Aldo Leopold, he argues that people need to treat the land better than we are now. Leopold believes that we should develop an ethical approach to using and caring for land. To demonstrate this, he compares the story of Odysseus and his slaves with land. In the story, the slave girls were considered property, and when they were hung, there were no consequences because they were his property
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Alternative Medicine and Its Effects on the Consumer
More and more "medicines" are being produced/discovered by doctors and medicinal companies, mainly with the economic growth of the company in mind rather than the well-being of the person. Things such as chemotherapy, unnecessary surgery, and so on are to blame for millions to even billions of excess spending in this country. Can this be reduced? Many people around the nation, even around the world, agree that there have to be different cures rather than
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Ethical Dcisions
This paper will go over two different ethical dilemmas; I will determine what I would do if I were to be faced with these problems, and why. In addition I will go over what I should do, and if they are different, say why. I will discuss the criteria of each decisions and how I came to that decision. In conclusion, I will discuss my final thoughts on the matter and hopefully, I will be
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Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper
Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Individuals on a daily basis deal with personal, organizational and cultural values. It is important that an individual learns to understand the differences between each and how it pertains to them. The intent of this paper is to identify values that are important personally, organizationally, and culturally, and the effects that these values have on decision making in regards to our personal and professional life. Personal Values Personal values
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Ethical Issues Facing Health Care
Ethical Issues Facing Health Care Paper Surgery has become commonplace in hospitals around the world. Even the smallest of hospitals have at least one operating room. Surgeons operate in theses operating room. They operate on all types of people. From other doctors to high school dropouts, the opportunity for surgery does not take into account the amount of education a patient has obtained. Before any surgery occurs consent must be obtained. Consent is usually in
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Ethical Decision Making Paper
Ethical Decision Making Paper What are ethics and how do they affect decision-making? According to the Santa Clara University, “[…] [E]thics refers to well based standards of right and wrong […].” Ethics are not the same as religion, but “Religion can set high ethical standards and can provide intense motivations for ethical behavior” (Santa Clara University). What about the law? There can be a law in place, but that does not necessarily mean that
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Computer Ethics
Computer Ethics A Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics (see Appendix A) was first presented by Dr. Ramon C. Barquin's in his paper for the Computer Ethics Institute of the Brookings Institution entitled, "In Pursuit of a 'Ten Commandments' for Computer Ethics" in May of 1992. Computer ethics is about principles related to behavior and decisions made by computer professionals and users, including software engineers, operators, managers, policy makers, as well as educators and students. This
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