A634- Business Ethics

In recent years, we have witnessed many tragedies with respect to guns in the workplace. Do citizens have a right to bear arms? Answer the question in your reflection blog. State your opinion and follow up your position with supporting documentation. Next, present the opposing side to your stance. Use external sources to enhance your claims.             The right to bear arms is one of the most debated topics of all time. Early on the right was more of a survival aspect I believe, but in the years to follow has been blown way out of proportion. For like most people in support of this right I tend to focus not so much on the gun ownership value and most on the freedom. I could definitely get on board with an agenda that modifies gun control but don't necessarily support a principle that starts to remove freedoms, because when then will it stop? So I'm in support of modifying the specific topic about guns, but don't support that ver...

  What is your view on egoism?             Since there are so many different facets of egoism I tend to view it by how an individual acts based on "when" they benefit and not necessarily how. I can't really think of an act that doesn't somehow benefit an individual, and really the hardest thing about all this is in the proof of it. How can you prove or disprove an act based on self-interest or not? How can I prove your selfless act doesn't somehow please you? If your motivation for selflessness is centered only on a feeling of good inside then why does that quantify altruism versus egoism as Ziniewicz (n.d.) defines? As stated previously, the "when" is what tips the scales from altruism to egoism for me personally. If an individual benefits in the here and now from something then I deem that action in the egoism realm, and we all act that way with many daily actions. The human interaction aspect also needs to be looked act wh...

  Select three of Franklin's virtues and reflect upon them in your blog. Ask yourself, how can I include them in my daily life?             The results of my PBS (2002) virtue quiz are that "You made some very virtuous choices. You chose the answers that closely reflected Ben's own self-improvement plan. Although Franklin gave up on his formal effort to be more virtuous, he devoted much of his life to self-improvement. You've made a good start on that yourself." I'm not really sold from the results of this quiz because I don't feel as though I follow them as extreme as the quiz questions behold. I could sway either way on a few of the questions and probably operate in the grays with most. I definitely try to find good in all of my actions and try even harder too overtly do no wrong, but I also believe that life needs to be enjoyed from time to time: I think that's what gives us our sanity. The straight edge life is great on p...

  Reflect on how companies can balance the need to win with being ethical. Cite some examples where you felt a company did a great job or a set a poor example for marketing with integrity. As a leader, how will you manage the ethical aspects of marketing/selling something you are working on or trying to get sponsorship for?             You see this form of ethics being played out all the time in the military, and mostly with non actual combat related stresses and pressures to be the best. Not only does the US military like, want, and need to assert itself as the most powerful military in the world, but also individual units desire to market themselves as such. This creates healthy competition to strive for greatness, but at what cause for whom? Does the community benefit from these pressures? Sometime they do directly as a result from natural disaster or even the current pandemic presence. The community also benefits from thi...

  Create the foundation for your reflections regarding if affirmative action is ethical. Be sure to include externally sourced content. Present your opinion, support your opinion, and address opposing viewpoints.             I think LaFollette's (2006) strongest points about affirmative action are spoken when he describes it as a form of reverse discrimination. Basically since so many programs, institutions, and organizations we developed around "white principles," in order to make the system more fair, adaptable, and diverse, we created affirmative action that bared Caucasians from certain jobs because of their dominate race. So did we really fix a problem by violating the very nature of why it was created in the first place? After passing into law, over the years states soon learned hard lessons that by just giving something to someone based on a certain demographic regardless of qualification wasn't going to work out well....

Using concepts from the Kramer (2003) article as a baseline, share your insights on dilemmas that happen: in society, at work, and in your life.             Probably the most overwhelming factor that causes great leaders to come crashing down is a lack of mindfulness in my opinion. A lack of mindfulness gets them into a vicious cycle of prosperity that pressures further prosperity, and when it cannot be attained without unethical practices that stray from the core construct, well then it all comes crashing down. This very same pressure applies to elite athletes when they plateau, to steroid or not creeps in. I think all great leaders have had this happen to them at one point or another, but some learn and unfortunately others get caught in the vicious cycle repeatedly.             When reflecting about prosperity the best leaders understand that with every great gain somethi...

  A Tale of Two Theories, LaFollette (2007) discusses Consequentialism and Deontology. Discuss your thoughts on these two theories. Do you tend to lean toward being a consequentialist? Deontologist?                   To be honest I wished that I had received this very topic of discussion before I met my wife because we have had to learn the hard way about the very evaluation criteria/process that folks utilize when confronted with a multitude of situations. Really I only understood what is known in the text as being consequentialism, which just so happens to deal with consequence based decision making. For me it's all about weighing out the outcomes and if the decision is centric based or collectively what good for the mass when dealing organizationally. If you desire an outcome where you get the biggest bang for your buck of the many then your consequentialism based ideals fall in-line with utilitarianism. On ...

  How shall we live, as individuals in the face of decisions about right versus wrong? How shall we handle those occasions when none of the choices are attractive? Consider the following ethical dilemma and create a reflection blog regarding what you would do when having to make a choice in each train scenario. Justify your position and create a synopsis of your position and the implications.  The right versus wrong question can't be simply answered correctly or incorrectly because I think right and wrong are all situational based. Not only situational but also focused around a culture, a pressure, a demand, or any other influential variable. The understanding of the problem at hand can also be time constrained, so a careful analysis of the problem and all influential variables may not be even a viable option. Who knows how a person will react to a stressful situation until they are immersed in it. It's very easy to sit back on your couch and write about what you think you ...