Imagine if we eliminated the notion of free will when it comes to our justice system. Present an argument that “justice” works better if we seek to help and fix people rather than just punish wrongdoers.

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WK8

Writer respond to all three topics:

Topic A: Animal Rights

Assuming the research by DeWaal is correct, most if not all social animals have innate dispositions to cooperate for survival and as such, develop moral codes for behavior. As such, should humans not work more to ensure animals have basic rights even if they cannot ask for them? What rights should those be and is there some sort of hierarchy (should dogs have more rights than mice).

Topic B: Free Will (or not)

Imagine if we eliminated the notion of free will when it comes to our justice system. Present an argument that “justice” works better if we seek to help and fix people rather than just punish wrongdoers.

Topic C: Grand summary

Taking all you have learned in the class, discuss how you feel you will be more active in thinking about moral decisions and how your compass will help in that process. Be specific and if you can think of a recent moral decision where this class helped, share.

Final Reflection:

And finally, reflect on the following:

How will you include ethics in your present or future career?
How will you talk about ethics as a career competency?

Create a post with a unique title in this forum. Write a post in a Dear Abby style letter (or “Dear Florence” if you like) about a nurse in an ethical or legal situation.

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Ethical and Legal Issues

Back in the olden days, there was a section of the newspaper called “Dear Abby”
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear Abby G,)I

For our discussion board this week, you are going to do two things:

1. Create a post with a unique title in this forum. Write a post in a Dear Abby style letter (or “Dear Florence” if you like) about a nurse in an ethical or legal situation. You can make one up entirely, use one you have heard about in the news, or write about one you have experienced. (BUT DO NOT USE ANY IDENTIFYING NAMES OR LOCATIONS OF PATIENTS, NURSES. OR FACILITIES) Initial posts are due by Wednesday, @ 2359.

2. Then, post a response to a classmate’s “letter” giving them advice, and instructing them as to what ethical or legal violation they could be in danger of. Support your answer with one of the legal terms we covered in class. (Powerpoint is posted in Canvas if you need a refresher.) Responses are due by Sunday @ 2359.

Introduce the Perdue case within the particular subject heading that you have chosen. Articulate the relevant characteristics of our mixed economic system and (2) present the regulations for the factory farming industry. Provide the setting for you to be able to examine how the nation’s laws affect its operations.

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Discussion

In the first part of your initial post, you will need to introduce the Perdue case within the particular subject heading that you have chosen. In this introduction, you will also need to (1) articulate the relevant characteristics of our mixed economic system and (2) present the regulations for the factory farming industry. These will provide the setting for you to be able to examine how the nation’s laws affect its operations.

In the second part of your initial post, present your analysis of the problem in a way that identifies which entities (Perdue as a corporation, the economic system in the USA, the regulatory control of the state, or all of these) have a role in the problem that you have presented. In your analysis, you must assess the negative effects of the interplay between business activity and one of the following: the environment, advertising, consumer safety, or corporate social responsibility. Your focus must be an ethical analysis of this interplay, and it must be well supported by reliable and/or scholarly sources by clearly identifying the ethical theory that you are applying in your analysis.

Fieser, J. (2015). Introduction to business ethics [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu/

Chapter 2: Capitalism
Read only the Media Feature titled Capitalism: Perdue located in Section 2.1, at the end of the Capitalism subheading.
Multimedia

Mercyforanimals. (2020, July 7). Our food, our future: Craig Watts [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Ciqb1EHnqG4

Farmer Craig Watts opens up his farm to share the startling realities of raising chicken according to his contractual arrangement with Perdue. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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PerdueChicken. (2014, August 1). TV Spot – Perdue farm – We believe in a better chicken [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/jz2jkpN_DGo

This is a cartoon commercial aired by Perdue to promote the freshness and quality of Perdue chickens, who are depicted as living well. Transcript
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Supplemental Material

Zúñiga y Postigo, G. (2015). The moral good in three traditional ethical theories [PowerPoint Slides]. Canvas@UAGC. https://login.uagc.edu

Do some research and present an argument that women with more naturally occurring testosterone should or should not be banned from competing against other women.

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Writer – answer all three topics A, B and C.

Topic A: Female thinking?
Doing some research (nothing more than 5 years old) and present an argument that women think differently than men (or that they do not) and that they process morality matters differently (or they do not).

Topic B: Women, testosterone and sports
Do some research and present an argument that women with more naturally occurring testosterone should or should not be banned from competing against other women.

Topic C: Abortion
Abortion is always a sticky subject. Taking the notions of care ethics and relationships in moral matters into consideration, present a researched argument that there are times when having an abortion is the morally right thing to do.

Identify the characteristics needed to implement a shared ethical culture and explain how this will help the organization. Explain how the ethical culture will be affected by the global context. Describe some of the global implications.

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Read the fictional scenario and address the checklist items.

Scenario (fictional):

ROBoInc. is a robotics software company with 100 employees located in South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. Until recently, the corporate culture had been established as a rigid culture that excluded families from company celebrations and in which everyone had an explicit job description. The company hires mostly locals, and only directors make any important decisions. The company has had a formal code of ethics but it has not been enforced. As a result, there have been increasing incidents of personnel doing consulting work for other companies outside of work hours. The CEO is concerned that their robotics software could be compromised. Lately, as the company’s software has been increasingly sought out by robot-producing companies around the globe, the CEO realizes it is time to reimagine a more diverse, inclusive, and global type company, while adhering to an ethical code of conduct with uniform responses to infringement.

The CEO knows they will soon need to hire at least another 20 sales staff and additional software developers to address this increasing global demand. The CEO wants to restructure the company while keeping company costs down as much as possible.

Help ROBoInc. address the problems by completing the checklist items.

View the company’s current organizational structure.

Address the following items in your Assessment submission:

Checklist: Based on the Readings and Learning Activities address the following:

(1) Identify the characteristics needed to implement a shared ethical culture and explain how this will help the organization.

(2) Explain how the ethical culture will be affected by the global context. Describe some of the global implications. Use the Competing Values Framework in assessing the situation.

(3) Analyze the current organizational structure and identify the key questions the executives need to answer in order to create the most effective and suitable organizational structure and culture.

(4) Explain the importance of ethical leadership involved in implementing a new organization structure and suggest a possible new structure based on the Learning Activity.

Submit your 3–4 page paper with an additional title and references page in APA format and citation style to the Dropbox.

 

As a manager, what ethical difficulty might you face when asked to layoff half of your employees in order to increase the organization’s long-term chance of survival?

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Answer ALL of the following questions:

  • When was the last time you decided to change a specific behavior (e.g., started to exercise, started a diet, or changed jobs)? How successful were you in accomplishing the change?
  • As a manager, what ethical difficulty might you face when asked to layoff half of your employees in order to increase the organization’s long-term chance of survival?
  • Why do organizations use neuroscience to help them with the change process? Provide 1-2 examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum

 

Prepare a presentation that clearly demonstrates “right” conduct concerning the issue and explains why this ethical-legal issue in the workplace matters. The training video should have entertainment value as well as educational value.

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Labor exploitation

Your assignment this week is to create a 5-minute training presentation based on your ethical dilemma essay. It should consist of approximately 10 well-designed, informative, and engaging slides.

Assume that you are a manager of a business or industry who needs to develop a 5-minute training video on the topic you selected for your Course Dilemma Project. The video should address the ethical and legal problem you identified in your paper and educate new and/or existing employees on what is wrong and why they should do “_____” instead of “_____” to eliminate the problem or solve it when they face it.

Prepare a presentation that clearly demonstrates “right” conduct concerning the issue and explains why this ethical-legal issue in the workplace matters. The training video should have entertainment value as well as educational value.

You will create an an audio or audiovisual narrative approximately 5 minutes long. The easiest way to do this is by using the recording feature in PowerPoint. You are required to use audio, but may choose to video as well if you have the ability to do so.

The presentation should contain the following content.

A title slide that features your topic selection, your name, DeVry University, and the course identifier (ETHC232)
A slide that depicts the topic and case selected
A slide that notes the sources found through research in the Week 3 assignment
A slide that lists the ethical dilemma and the three theories
A slide that shows which laws or codes apply; cite sources on the slide
A slide that gives possible solutions and impacts on stakeholders
A slide that gives your solution and your rationale for choosing it
A conclusion that shows how the solution can be applied in the workplace

References slide
Sources must be cited on individual slides and documented on a References slide using APA style.
Cite at least three sources–these may be the same sources used for the Week 3 assignment, but you are welcome to add more sources as well

How does racial discrimination violate the principle of impartiality? Would discriminating based on some other factor also violate the principle of impartiality?

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Moral Theories

1. How does racial discrimination violate the principle of impartiality? Would discriminating based on some other factor (but which happened to result in the same split) also violate the principle of impartiality? For example, you need a certain grade point average to get into WCC. Is that also discriminatory?

2. What is the logic behind the principle of universalizability? Cite an example of how the principle has entered your moral deliberations.

3. Suppose you try to use the Ten Commandments as a moral code to make moral decisions. How would you resolve conflicts between commandments? Do you approach to resolving the conflicts imply a more general moral theory lying behind the Ten Commandments? If so, explain the main idea behind the theory?

5. According to Kant, why is breaking a promise or lying (always) immoral? Do you agree with Kant? Why or why not?

What is the Experience Machine? How does it work? Identify a situation in your life that you might want to use the Experience Machine to explore. Explain why you would not plug in to the machine.

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Reflection 4

Main Idea: Nozick’s Experience Machine lends a critical perspective to hedonism.

Questions:

  • (a) What is the Experience Machine? How does it work?
  • (b) Application: Identify a situation in your life that you might want to use the Experience Machine to explore.
  • (c) Explain why you would not plug in to the machine.

For the purposes of this essay, you may not argue that you would plug in anyway. You must consider the reasons you would not want to plug in (and Nozick has several to offer you).

 

Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing.

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 Law and ethics

The relationship between law and ethics has been subject to much discussion over time. Is there a common standard? Is one “stricter” than the other? In a well-written, cohesive essay, explore the relationship of law and ethics. As you do so, identify and discuss specific examples to illustrate each of the following:

Law and ethics overlap in purpose and/or form (i.e., the law tends to enforce ethical standards or is parallel to societal ethics)
Law is ethically neutral (i.e., law has no ethical purpose or content)
Because law is developed through compromise, the law may actually be unethical (i.e. the purpose or effect of the law may be unethical)

Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.