Facebook's Degradation of Virtuous Philia as Described in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Through the advancement of technology, the Internet has emerged as a predominant mode of communication. Social networks in particular have recently redefined the way in which individuals communicate with each other. Socially interactive technologies, such as Facebook, allow for the ability to...
Ethics in criminal justice administration analysis
Case study - 3 pages - Administrative law
Law enforcement officers are expected to live up to the highest professional and personal standards of life. With every passing day and just like all people; the faith, honor and integrity of a law enforcement official will be tested. Law enforcement officials are tempted with and can easily...
Business ethics: Issues within an organization and employee behaviors
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
As unfortunate as it may sound, it is in this writer's opinion that the term “business ethics” seems to be more of a punch line than it does a guiding light within the working population. With our news agencies constantly covering such topics as government bailouts, Presidential...
Business ethics analysis: Interview
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
For this assignment I decided to interview a good friend of mine that has been in the workforce for almost 4 years. He prefers to stay anonymous, so I will only call him by his first name: Thomas. The interview has been done in French, in face to face. I took some notes and tried to translate and...
Police ethics and deviance
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
Law enforcement officers are expected to live up to the highest professional and personal standards of life. With every passing day and just like all people; the faith, honor and integrity of a law enforcement official will be tested. Law enforcement officials are tempted with and can easily...
Business ethics: German car manufacturer BMW
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
International firms are more dealing with an International orientation by developing the business in new emerging markets and consolidating the loyal ones. In order to be effective, they have to control many elements in the same time: accountancy, human resources or sales department are really...
Code of ethics
Case study - 1 pages - Business strategy
Life, as we all know, does not follow a book or set of rules, anything that can happen may happen. There will come times when things go not according to even the best laid plans. The dilemma I will speak of is one of a moral and ethical issue. You are a social worker sent to check on a client and...
Summary of ethics
Case study - 3 pages - Management
In considering the state of the business world according to ethics or lack thereof, a student must examine and learn from ethical issues before entering the workforce. Certainly, landing a job leading to an illustrious career is at the top of everyone's to-do list, yet there are ethical...
Ethics awareness inventory
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
The Ethics Awareness Inventory (EAI) is employed to appraise an individual's ethical technique. Every person has his or her own standpoint. This standpoint or outlook can be brought about form the individual's analysis of wrong and right. The majority of individual's place the foundation...
Employment at will doctrine: Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance
Case study - 4 pages - Business law
When thinking about privacy laws and the collecting of citizens' private information, there are certainly a few things that come to mind. First and foremost is the technology that helps us in so many facets of life and has brought us closer together, has also began to bring into focus the...
Ethics and governance: On Apple Inc.
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Tim Cook wrote that any accident was deeply disturbing, and issues concerning working conditions was a cause of concern, and every year they inspected more factories, thus raising the bar for their partners and getting deeper into the supply chain, and added that they have made a great deal of...
The role of ethics in the company (2006)
Essay - 62 pages - Management
The place of ethics in the company raises many questions: What areas are covered by corporate ethics? Is it an element of corporate reputation for external use? Does it create a new social climate within the company? However, a major problem has been presented from the beginning of...
Contrasting and comparing the ethics of the healthcare system in the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America by means of the different moral philosophies
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
I'll be going over 3 different health care systems in 3 different countries; the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America. For each country I will give a brief explanation of the current health care system and then I will go over the advantages and disadvantages keeping the following...
Business Ethics: Dior
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
Christian Dior was founded in 1905 in Normandy. In 1946, Dior opened his legendary home at 30 Avenue Montaigne. In February 1947, Dior launched his first collection called Corolle, where women were drawn like flowers. It was the beginning of the success story. Every fashion book said that the...
Corporate ethics of Carrefour
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The purpose of this case study is the unethical situation during an internship or period of work experience within a company. The study of this situation will lead to solutions to tackle such unethical issues and situations. Carrefour, the pioneer of the hypermarket concept, is also active in...
Business Ethics
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
Select some recent incident of controversy about “corporate misbehavior” and explain what the alleged ethical abuses were that occurred at the company and what penalties, if any, have been imposed on the alleged perpetrators. (If no penalties have yet been imposed what penalties do you...
The Fair family: Nursing, healthcare and ethics
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The factual scenario raises complex issues pertaining to ethical and legal considerations with regard to the rights of Mr Fair and his daughter. As an initial observation, patient autonomy and consent will be a central factor in determining the appropriate course of action and from a nursing...
Virtue ethics & abortion
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Virtue ethics is a complex theory. It focuses on analyzing the values that are instilled in any given human being at birth, the values they learn through contact with the outside world, family, friends, co-workers, school teachers and other relationships, principles and scenarios they...
Business Ethics - The Niger Delta
Essay - 7 pages - Management
This report is going to talk about the case of the Niger Delta and its intrinsic oil exploitation as well as gas flaring, which cause damages to the local population and impacts the environment. Moreover, the Nigerian government mismanages its revenues in wasting the gas flared that could be an...
The A to Z of bioethics
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
The world of science is highly dynamic. It advances the way in which the human race is progressing. Scientific advances in the field of life sciences pose difficult ethical questions. These include questions on cloning, embryo research, patenting of life and the human genome. France has...
Luxury and ethics
Essay - 1 pages - Services marketing
"The benefit is valid only if the means of obtaining it is ethical". The concept of luxury is the realization of unconscious desires of human characterized by a constant scarcity. (Larousse dictionary). Ethics is a result of all the actions for the point of view of the environment, that...
Corporate governance and business ethics of Diageo
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
In spite of a global crisis, global businesses are reaching record profits like Exxon. In fact, businesses are more powerful than ever and the biggest ones are even wealthier than some countries (Leonard, 2008; Johnson et al., 2006). The power of these corporate influence policies and could...
Ethics, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility: Ben & Jerry's case study
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Ben & Jerry's have evolved on a growing market. This is why the influence of customers and competitors is significant. Nevertheless, these threats have do not have a huge impact on the company, because the growth enables each competitor to find its own position. Even if prices are falling in...
Assigning sex: The ethics of performing surgery on inter-sex infants
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Hermaphrodites have throughout history been in the center of mythology, scandal, and the perverse fascination of the public eye. They have been misunderstood and persecuted for centuries by those who are confused by their ambiguous genitalia. Today, such people possessing to some degree both male...
The ethics of child sexuality
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The ethical status of children and sexuality has come to the forefront of our society's attention. There has been a strong attempt over the years to reduce sexual behavior in children. In the United States, the legal age of consent in most states is age sixteen, but some states have it set as...
Business ethics Moral issues facing a company involved in the fast food industry
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Contrary to Friedman's theory which claims that corporations only aim at increasing profits and shareholders revenues, companies have moral responsibilities. Indeed, shareholders are not alone in a firm and have to compromise with the interests of the other stakeholders. According to Freeman...
Using ethics to solve dilemmas in the world of engineering
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
This report explores the importance of engineering ethics to arrive at reasonable conclusions to a dilemma between two vendors. This is done so by exploring answers to the three questions of whether or not the engineer of ACME should confront the other non engineering employee from ACME,...
Ethics and the consumer coursework
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In a world where globalization seems to be everywhere, emerge some notions as ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations. The aim of that is finally the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a...
Clinical tests in developing countries and pharmaceutical ethics issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Medical studies
The clinical trials performed on humans by the pharmaceutical companies are essentials for the advancement of the knowledge of human health. After the terrible Nazis experimentation during the Second World War, some actions have been taken to protect the participants of the clinical trials. Many...
Polonsky M. J., Brito P. Q., Pinto J. and Higgs-Kleyn N. (2001). Consumer Ethics in the European Union: A comparison of northern and southern views
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Our article for seminar three is called Consumer Ethics in the European Union: a Comparison of Northern and Southern Views. It discusses the issue of a single European market and the cultural problems that occur in this growing “integrated” market. The authors have divided the...
