Ethics

Organization of Paper—How you organize your essay is entirely up to you. Many often take this opportunity to write in a journal or diary-like form. No thesis is needed. However, if writing a thesis makes you feel comfortable, you may do so. Some students in the past also chose to write in a letter format. This is fine, too.   Brainstorming—Use these questions to help guide your self-evaluation. You do not have to respond to all or any of these. This is merely to help you brainstorm.   Do you understand race and ethnicity differently now? There were times in which discussions/readings may have been more uncomfortable than others. What did you learn about how people come to their perspectives about the world? Does “social construction” help you to better understand race and ethnicity? Did you struggle with these concepts in the beginning? How did you come to a better understanding of these concepts? How do you think they might be useful when this class is over? How do you think you’ve changed in terms of being able to talk about structural, systemic, and institutional racism? Which discussions, readings, concepts, and/or ideas were most helpful for you and why? What questions are you still left with that you want to pursue for the future? What underlying messages and concepts rang most important for you throughout the course? What was most challenging for you? What do you think was your most significant contribution to the class? Which ideas from your peers’ challenged you most? Why? What do you think you’re taking away from this course? How will you apply it in the future? How have you grown overall?

Topic:  A senior Boeing engineer filed an internal ethics complaint this year saying that during the development of the 737 Max jet the company had rejected a safety system to minimize costs, equipment that he felt could have reduced risks that contributed to two fatal crashes Get into the design and training issues, you can include the whistleblower complaint but you need to address the big issue.  Be sure to use the FAA  report, there is a Congressional report and the shareholder lawsuit. Identify the ethical risks to which Boeing is subject to and develop a management strategy and program to manage those risks.  Recommendations should be developed to ensure that the corporate culture supports the corporation’s code of conduct and to ensure that the specific failures are corrected.  Take the role of the Corporate Ethics Officer for one of the companies of the cases or roundtables.  Develop a corporate ethics program for Boeing.  You must raise and address the ethical risks to which the company is subject, and develop a program to correct those ethics failures which occurred. 

Design your responses as if you are explaining facts, concepts, and ideas to someone who is not familiar with the subject matter. Be sure to include creative examples wherever they may be appropriate. Also, be sure to provide a title for each of your essay responses. This assignment requires you to write essays in response to all of the following: Part 1: In your own words, summarize and contrast the harms and benefits of privacy, offering your commentary. Your commentary can include illustrative examples based on your perspective and experience. Part 2: Offering your own commentary as you see fit, critically evaluate the idea that whistle blowing is a moral duty, focusing primarily on the perspectives of Richard De George and Carlos G. Bell, Jr. Part 3: From the perspective of Robert Frank and Philip Cook, in your own words, describe the harmful effects of the winner-take-all society in general and the economy in particular. When it seems appropriate, provide examples from your experience or observations.

Submit a draft of the Trends and Ethics portions of the final project (Sections II and III). Analyze the current internal and external factors related to the intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea. Based on your analysis and within the context of your idea, describe the trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics that may impact your business. Also, describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact your intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea. How could these ethics and regulatory issues affect your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes? How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to these business ethics and regulatory issues? Lastly, how will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial idea?

Explain Beauchamp and Childress’s definition and explanation of the “common morality.” What are the features of the common morality? How does it differ from “customary” moralities? Do you agree with Beauchamp and Childress that “the common morality is better suited to play a vital role in biomedical ethics” than the ethical theories they have described elsewhere, and why or why not?

Thoughtfully reflect on the issues discussed in the talks you have viewed. Address the following points in your discussion: What is the speaker’s point of view about the topic? Is the speaker biased? What ethical issues and ethical reasoning are argued? Do you think that bio-engineering issues have moral and ethical implications? Why or why not? Do you agree with the speaker’s point of view? Be specific and thorough. Express how and why you agree or disagree and discuss how ethics and values contribute to your opinion. Consider the theoretical concepts discussed in the course. Do not just state your viewpoint, rather provide relevant details to support your findings and/or position.

Scenario: What is ethics? why is it important for a business professional to be equitable and fair in any hiring process or decision? You have just interviewed three candidates for an entry-level position at your organization.  One candidate is a friend of a coworker who has implored you to give this friend a chance.  This candidate is the weakest of the three but has sufficient skills and knowledge to adequately fill the position.  Who do you hire?

Each student will do solo or group work on an aspect of citizenship such as education, healthcare, voting (if your country has it), or some other big topic you can argue is important for being a good citizen. The goal will be to relate all of the ethical systems we study to this larger topic – we will comment on all of the systems, but not all of them will work well.  Goals: 1. Find information: Research the area of your choice, whether education, healthcare, justice, service work, etc. Examples of how to start the research: Interview someone, visit a site, watch a video (includes documentary movies). 2. Organize information: Identify three key findings from your research. 3. Identify a problem: Explain one problem the community is facing. 4. Create a citizen-plan-of-action: Draw or write up a description of potential solutions for the problem.  5. Reference theory: Identify specific theories to support your plan of action – this is where you will link to ethical systems we study in this course. 6. Present the citizen-plan-of-action to a small group in class. If you do a paper (you can do a web site, game, song, video, etc.): five pages, double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman. No more than 3 references. Do not quote a lot of other people. Write this yourself. The paper is worth 20 points for five pages.  I would rather you turn in four pages that you wrote (for a deduction in points) than five pages with other people’s words in it. Do not turn in fewer than three pages. Write in your own words. I want you to be the kind of person who does the work and does not try to take a shortcut. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY Here is a sample submission, in which I define my terms, explain how each of the ethical systems relates to the topic (including which is best and which is least helpful), and provide a personal solution. Your conclusion may focus more on what the larger society should do. Your paper will be about twice as long as this one!   THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM IN CITIZENSHIP   The facets include responsible journalists, who provide a window into the workings of as free society, and also of consumers of responsible journalism, who use well-researched stories to make decisions about government, education, and more.   The ongoing problem, made acute by recent events, is that many journalists are charged with being first rather than being correct, and consumers do not know who to trust. The solution, seen broadly, is for journalists to return to proper techniques, and for consumers to identify half a dozen responsible sources and only read those.   ETHICAL SYSTEMS   Cultural relativism is useful in acknowledging that a writer or news service may come from a particular tradition of supporting the government, or of private enterprise, or of some other specific organization. Stories generated by this group may still be useful, but must be taken in context.   Religion: Journalism on a religious topic must also be understood within a very specific context. It may be relevant only to members of a particular religious group.   Ethical egoism: The ethical egoist journalist probably will not exist in a free society, as such a person is interested in benefitting the larger group. Journalists are normally not in the profession to make lost of money. A consumer of responsible journalism, however, might be an ethical egoist who chooses her sources carefully.   Social contract: This ethical system fits responsible journalism very well in a free society. The journalist seeks out errors in the contract which need correcting, and the consumer consults responsible journalists to know what needs fixing.   Utilitarianism: This system also overlaps nicely with social contract. The responsible journalist is interested in exposing problems which affect the larger group. The consumer appreciates stories on issues which affect many people.   Kant: The responsible journalist has a code of conduct which cannot be broken under any circumstances, including multiple sources and fact-checking layers. This approach is as Kantian as it gets. It is less necessary that a consumer of responsible journalist be a Kantian.   Feminist ethics: Feminism probably does not have a significant contribution to this topic, other than to remind us that we need the roles of journalists to be filled by a diverse corps.   Virtue: A responsible journalist will choose to live out several virtues, including integrity, honesty and dependability. A consumer will trust the journalist and her organization, and hold that group to a high standard.   CONCLUSION, PLAN OF ACTION   As with most issues, virtue ethics provides us with the most angles for solutions. As with many public issues, religion is least helpful for creating public policy; it should remain private.   Responsible journalism can be an important aspect of a free society, by keeping track of various organizations and how well they are performing their duties.   I will continue to adjust the news sources I trust by consulting a new one each week, to see how it holds up to those I already trust. My first step is to find a news source that leans toward conservative angles in the United States. I also intend to try Al_Jazeera, on certain topics.

Should be based on the book Sandy County Almanac and is required to answer the questions 1. what is the over all theme and what skills should a student of nature does prof. Leopold demonstrate are important. 2. what values are described in the writing, citing specific passages. 3. what economic or utilitarian role does Leopoldo assign to nature? 4. After making sure you understand what ethics means define what you believe Leopold’s land ethic is. citing passages. 5. Identify a current issue in wildlife and describe in detail how the land ethic relates to the issue.

Two page document providing a high-level overview of each of the10 work ethics characteristics. Attendance, Character, Teamwork, Appearance, Attitude,Productivity, Organization, Communication, Cooperation and Respect.