8) Firstly, major ethical issue here is, fooling the people in the cafeteria just to see how many of them lend a helping hand. Secondly, the situation described is unethical because it leads to mistrust in people as they might think before helping someone, when someone might genuinely need help. Thus, it's an unethical situation.
For many of the ethical dilemmas below, there could be more than one correct answer. However,...
ethical dilemmas are rarely crystal clear and there are often more than one point of view to any given situation. How would you handle a co-worker behaving in an unethical manner? Would your response change if you knew it was an isolated event?
Review the following ethical dilemmas: A newspaper columnist signs a contract with a newspaper chain. Several months later, she is offered a position with another newspaper chain, offering a higher salary. Because she would prefer making more money, she notifies the first chain that she is breaking her contract. The courts will decide the legality of her action, but what of the morality? Did the columnist behave ethically? An airline pilot receives his regular medical checkup. The doctor discovers that...
Think of a time when you were faced with an ethical dilemma. Using one of the ethical frameworks discussed below, describe your approach in resolving your dilemma. What was the final outcome? *Kantian ethics suggests that decision makers have duties or obligations with which they must follow in their behaviors; • virtue ethics considers that good decisions come from individuals that possess a package of virtues (such as courage, wisdom, and generosity for example), a virtuous individual is one that uses...
As public pressure for corporate accountability and ethical behavior increases, businesses and industries are putting more emphasis on establishing and publicly sharing their codes of ethics with stakeholders. Businesses adopt these to help guide corporate decision-making, but they can be used against them when businesses stray from their stated codes. For instance, Enron’s 64-page code of ethics was Exhibit #1 at the trial of its CEO, Ken Lay, after the company imploded. Stuart Gilman, president of the Ethics Resource Center...
Can anyone pick one and give me an example? This Internet assignment consists of four choices. Choose two of the four choices that you would like to learn more about. Each chosen part of this Internet assignment is worth a possible 20 points. So, the Internet assignment is worth a total of 40 possible points (20 points for each choice you have selected and written about). Your response to each chosen assignment should be a minimum of 10 complete sentences. ...
For each multiple-choice question choose one answer that best answers the question. You must also provide your rationale for choosing the answer you did. Based on research on factors that increase informational social influence, which game contestant is most likely to yield to informational social influence provided by teammates or the audience? Joan, playing in the grand prize round of a television game show, who answers a question, whose answer she is uncertain of Jay, playing in the grand prize...
Amanda Pinkerton is a purchasing agent for an airconditioner manufacturer. Amanda is evaluating two potential suppliers of condensers for the AC production. "Best Condensers, LLC" quotes a price of $165 per condenser and guarantees highest quality and on time delivery. Another supplied, "Cheapest condensers, LLC" quotes a price of $135 per condenser and gives no other assurances. You are the management accountant and Amanda needs your help to decide which supplier to buy from by having you prepare a comparison...
You are the personnel manager of ‘ AllCure Pharmaceuticals’. It’s a busy time and the guys in the product approval department have called you up because they desperately need to hire a new team member to assist them with the clinical tests of what could become the next blockbuster drug for the company. You get to work and within a week have actually managed to get three well-qualified applicants for the job. The interviews went well and there are two...
SECTION A- Multiple-choice questions. [30 marks] Answer all the questions from this section. Choose the correct answers from the best alternatives given below. 1. What does sampling mean in research______________________. A. Identify people suitable for research B. Sampling using your intelligence guess C. Sampling people, a population D. is a given number of subjects from a defined population which is representative of it 2. When a number of researchers use the same operational definition to achieve the same result, this...
Questions 33-35. Based on the vignette below, answer the following questions. Vignette II. You become very interested in the large public interest in the iPhone. You decide to use the experimental method so you can try to understand the causes of fascination with the iPhone and be able to generalize your results to the larger population beyond the Apple Store employees. You recruit large numbers of participants, a representative sample of the larger population, and ran- domly assign them to...