Category: Ethics

Now think about a situation where a leader had to make an unpopular decision that involved an difficult ethical dilemma.
1. Describe it and analyze the choice that was made, for better or worse.
2. What can someone learn from the situation?

 
List and briefly describe the three policies you found.
Describe one of the policies at length (approximately 150 words), including the following:
What the policy does
What the policy hopes to achieve
Which groups the policy targets
What need the policy was created to address
Identify at least one other primary institution (for example, family, workplace, religion, community, and/or marketplace) that gets involved in meeting this same need and describe how this institution tries to address this area of need. Examples are available in your reading and in the video content for the week.

* Prompt: read Beth Johnson’s summary of assessing the "bombs" in her life in the last two paragraphs of "Bombs Bursting in Air." Analyze her philosophy and offer your own strategies for responsibly coping with the crises (personal, familiar, national,etc.)that may come one’s way. Incorporate one other assigned reading in addition to an outside source.
* (In your analysis, you will cite the assigned reading referenced in the prompt, plus one of the other assigned readings and one outside article. At least three sources.

 
Based on your proposed organization and structure for the GAH and the Community Clinic, we will now focus on additional aspects pertaining to:

1. Quality control and Accreditation:
Define at least five core organizational competencies and functions for the new organization, and define a goal/objective for them.
Propose a control method/score board to be implemented in the new organization to ensure that said core competencies and functions are meeting their goals and objectives.
Assume that the new Hospital will seek JCAHO accreditation. What major competencies will this require from management and staff?

2. Ethical Issues – HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. It also addressed the security and privacy of health data. As the industry adopts these standards for the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation’s healthcare system, the use of electronic data interchange will improve.
3.IT Systems
Based on your proposed project’s organizational structure and the geographical locations of Mission Hospital, Golden Age Hospital and the Community Clinic, recommend the major components of an IT system that can best provide for the communication needs within and between the organisation units.
Identify and define your requirements from the system subject to the ethical requirements of HIPAA (see above).
Conclusions and Recommendations – Final for complete project.

1. Identify reasons a business organization should be concerned about its ethical culture.
What key management policies/programs help to determine a strong or weak ethical
culture?

2. Define trust and its importance in a business ethical culture? What happens when trust
is lost?

3. Put yourself in the role of the Recall Coordinator for Ford Motor Company in the Pinto
Case study:
(a) Is a cost benefit analysis (define it!) appropriate where human life is part of the
cost calculation? Why or why not?
(b) How would Milton Friedman (profit/shareholder maximization) view cost benefit
analysis in this situation? How would Ed Freeman (stakeholder) view it? How
about the Golden Rule, would there be a different result?
(c) Where do you draw the ethical line on product safety?

4. In the Pinto case study, as the Recall Coordinator:
(a) Identify the ethical dilemmas and ethical conflicts and who are the
affected parties (stakeholders)?
(b) What decision would you make? .Which theory would it be based upon – the
consequential (utilitarian) or the deontological (Kant’s Categorical Imperative) and
what would be the impact of your decision? Be sure to define the theory you
would use.

5. What conditions would have to be present for you to blow the whistle about unethical
conduct you observed at work? How would you go about it by identifying the specific
steps to take and implications (risks) for you?

6. In this case scenario, Green Company–an environmentally sustainable company–has
offered to hire you as a consultant to design an ethics communication and training
program for all Green Co. employees. Your meetings to date have been ONLY with
head of human resources. As you begin your research, Green’s corporate counsel
informs you that you will not be allowed to ask employees about ethical dilemmas that
have occurred at Green. He specifically tells you to get your information from other
sources such as press accounts of problems in the industry, or from other organizations
with which you’ve worked. In addition, the head of human resources has told you that
you’ll not meet the three most senior executives because they’re busy negotiating
a large acquisition. You will have access to other high-level managers who can tell you
what they think the senior leadership would want.

Based on what you have learned about business ethical cultures, identify the problems
presented in this case. Should you take the job? Why or why not?

7. One way to tell if business decisions are ethical is to put them through an ethics check
by asking three questions: (1) Is it legal? (2) Is it balanced? (3) How will it make me
feel? Apply each of these three questions to the following ethical dilemma: your best
friend forgot about a term paper due tomorrow, has not researched or written it and
asks if he could copy a paper you wrote for another instructor last semester. What is
your decision and why?

8. Ninos and Ninas, Inc. is an adoption agency in Massachusetts that specializes in
speedy adoptions of poor Hispanic-American infants. These poor infants, if not
adopted, would end up abandoned on the street or malnourished in orphanages because
their mothers cannot afford to care for them. The adoption fee charged by the agency is
$15,000. You have been accepted for adoption by the agency with a non-refundable
deposit of $10,000.

Two months later, Carmen, the agency’s director of adoption
services, informs you that a baby girl is now available. She then gives
instructions to you to place in post office box the final $5,000 of the fee and an
additional $2,500 in cash in a sealed envelope, marking the envelope for “Senior Jose.”
Carmen further explains that once the $5,000 adoption fee balance and additional cash
payment are paid, you can come to the agency the next day to pick up your little girl.
When you question the additional odd cash payment, Carmen tells you that “Senior
Jose ”is an official in the social agency who handles adoptions and it is the way Ninos
and Ninas, Inc. has been doing business for 10 years.

How would you characterize the additional cash payment and does the benefit to the
infant girl justify the method for accomplishing that benefit? Would you go forward
with the adoption? What ethical and/or moral theories would help in your decision?

1. Number each page.
2. Do not use a separate title page.
3. In upper left corner of page one, type your name.
4. Below your name, type “Philosophy 101: Ethics” (without quotes).
5. Offer a brief title for your paper, centered on page one
6. Begin your paper 2 lines/spaces below the title.
7. Use one- inch margins on each side, top and bottom of page.
8. Use 1.5 spacing and standard font and size (e.g. Palatino 12 pt.)
9. Do not separate paragraphs with additional spacing.
10. Do not use BOLD print.
Paper Option 1
From the list of readings below (from the MacKinnon text), select one for the focus of your paper. Do BOTH 1 & 2 of the following:

1: in no more than 3 pages (1200 words max), offer a summary of the reading. The summary should be an accurate and objective representation of the author’s position and should not reflect the view or the attitude of the student. The summary should have as its audience an intelligent reader unfamiliar with the essay. Your summary should be in your own words, voice, and style, rather than that of the author being summarized. Avoid paraphrasing and lengthy or frequent quoting, as this shifts the burden from the writer to the reader. Your summary will be a demonstration of your understanding of the piece being summarized. An excellent summary is one that accurately and thoroughly informs the reader.

2: in no more than 2 pages (1200 words max), offer an analysis/critical response to the author’s treatment of the question, issue, or theory of focus. An analysis involves a close and developed examination (what YOU think) of a claim or argument presented in the piece that you have summarized. Here you should consider such elements of reasoning as assumptions, point of view, implications, concepts, facts, interpretations, inferences, etc., which are integral to the author’s reasoning as he/she attempts to convince the reader that something is the case. Critical thinking involves responding to one or another of these elements, seeking clarification, pointing out a possible inconsistency in the reasoning, challenging the accuracy or significance of a claim, pointing out a questionable assumption, offering an alternative interpretation or point of view, etc. (basically, what Socrates does with Euthyphro’s claims), or, on the other hand, defending a thesis against such challenges. A critical response involves taking a position with respect to some aspect of the reasoning and supporting that position with arguments. In short, a response is critical to the extent that it advances the dialogue and gives the reader something to consider. Philosophy papers are typically argumentative and analytical rather than simply descriptive or expressive. A philosophy paper is supposed to convince someone that something is the case, or shed light where there was confusion or misunderstanding. Simply agreeing or disagreeing with an author or expressing one’s feelings about what was said are NOT critical responses, however worthy they might otherwise be.

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1. Number each page.
2. Do not use a separate title page.
3. In upper left corner of page one, type your name.
4. Below your name, type “Philosophy 101: Ethics” (without quotes).
5. Offer a brief title for your paper, centered on page one
6. Begin your paper 2 lines/spaces below the title.
7. Use one- inch margins on each side, top and bottom of page.
8. Use 1.5 spacing and standard font and size (e.g. Palatino 12 pt.)
9. Do not separate paragraphs with additional spacing.
10. Do not use BOLD print.
Paper Option 1
From the list of readings below (from the MacKinnon text), select one for the focus of your paper. Do BOTH 1 & 2 of the following:

1: in no more than 3 pages (1200 words max), offer a summary of the reading. The summary should be an accurate and objective representation of the author’s position and should not reflect the view or the attitude of the student. The summary should have as its audience an intelligent reader unfamiliar with the essay. Your summary should be in your own words, voice, and style, rather than that of the author being summarized. Avoid paraphrasing and lengthy or frequent quoting, as this shifts the burden from the writer to the reader. Your summary will be a demonstration of your understanding of the piece being summarized. An excellent summary is one that accurately and thoroughly informs the reader.

2: in no more than 2 pages (1200 words max), offer an analysis/critical response to the author’s treatment of the question, issue, or theory of focus. An analysis involves a close and developed examination (what YOU think) of a claim or argument presented in the piece that you have summarized. Here you should consider such elements of reasoning as assumptions, point of view, implications, concepts, facts, interpretations, inferences, etc., which are integral to the author’s reasoning as he/she attempts to convince the reader that something is the case. Critical thinking involves responding to one or another of these elements, seeking clarification, pointing out a possible inconsistency in the reasoning, challenging the accuracy or significance of a claim, pointing out a questionable assumption, offering an alternative interpretation or point of view, etc. (basically, what Socrates does with Euthyphro’s claims), or, on the other hand, defending a thesis against such challenges. A critical response involves taking a position with respect to some aspect of the reasoning and supporting that position with arguments. In short, a response is critical to the extent that it advances the dialogue and gives the reader something to consider. Philosophy papers are typically argumentative and analytical rather than simply descriptive or expressive. A philosophy paper is supposed to convince someone that something is the case, or shed light where there was confusion or misunderstanding. Simply agreeing or disagreeing with an author or expressing one’s feelings about what was said are NOT critical responses, however worthy they might otherwise be

ETHICS: 10 Points
Alice travels two weeks out of every month for the company. During travel the company
provides her with a laptop and Internet access so she can keep on top of e-mail and other job
responsibilities. Lately, away from her husband and three children, Alice has felt lonely. After 8
p.m. she finds downloading pornography from the Internet in her hotel room helps alleviate the
gloom which has begun to haunt her days and nights.

Do you think Alice is doing something unethical? Why? / Why not?
Start with I think alice is doing something unethical / or not , why …… no introduction or anything .

Students will be required to write a five-page reflection paper that focus on ethics. The reflection paper should be a typed, double-spaced, thoughtful, in depth, reflection to class discussion and/or readings. To receive full credit, papers must integrate content with affective and reactive experiences. Paper that simply describe or summarize the classes or readings, without personal exploration will only receive half credit.
Reflection papers might consider some of the following questions:
How did discussions about ethics make you feel?
How might your individual experiences and identities affect your reactions to the material?
How did you learn to develop your ethical values?

You don’t have to summarize all of the following notes and readings. Most importantly, you have to describe how you feel and your thoughts on ethics in mental health counseling.
The following is what we discussed in class. I’m also attaching my e-textbook, you have to read through Chapter 1-8.
1.The differences between ethical, legal, and moral obligations: Ethical obligation has to do with your profession or specific professional organizations. Legal obligation has to do with what the law says. Moral is what you think; it has do with your family value and your culture value, religion, and personality; it is how you think about things.
The whole point of ethics is for you to make the best ethical decisions (or the least unethical decisions) when approached with difficult situations. It means that following your ethical codes, understanding legal and moral things, also think about what would get you in the least amount of trouble.

2.Conflicts among the three: ethical vs legal vs moral
Morally right but legally wrong: same sex marriage, marijuana.
Legally right but ethically wrong: confidentiality. For instance, ethically therapists should keep clients records confidential but in forensic settings such as prisons, there is no such thing as confidentiality. Another e.g. is the therapist’s notes about a client gets subpoena, the therapist has to hand in the notes to the court.
Legally right but ethically and morally wrong: The head of the ethics office at American Psychological Association (APA) was commissioned by President Bush to employ torture tactics to prisoners of war for information post 911 during Afghanistan and Iraq.
When your client is a domestic survivor, you are not required to do anything both ethically and legally. It is not ethical to report this to the police even though morally you want to do something.
When your client tells you that he is going to rape a random woman tomorrow, the least unethical thing is to do nothing because you have no identifiable information(he might rape a random woman but you don’t know who might be raped; maybe he changed his mind and he doesn’t want to rape anybody any more) and if you report to the police it will break confidentiality and harm the rapport and relationship between you and your client.
If your client is HIV positive and your client has unprotective sex what would you do? Ethically you cannot tell your client’s partner because according to the ethics, the client has no intention to kill, and HIV is not life threatening disease, so you cannot do anything even though morally you want to tell the partner.

3. Clients’ rights
Clients have right to be informed of what is happening in the session. Clients have freedom to choose whether or not to enter and remain in the counseling relationship. Clients cannot be forced into a counseling relationship unless she/he is a mandated client. Mandated clients cannot be forced into a specific relationship but legally they are required to do this but they have right to choose another counselor.

4. Informed consent
When giving informed consent to the client, the therapist must let the client read it and sign it and the counselor also has to read it to the client.
The counselor will tell the client that counselor will provide safe space and confidentiality in the therapy. The counselor is going to tell the client about his/her credential, e.g., education, level of training, etc. Also going to tell the client the process of counseling. The counselor will also inform the client of the potential risks that may happen in the therapy.

5.Clients’ responsibilities
Show up on time.
Be truthful and take it seriously.

6. Who cannot give informed consent
Minor
Adult with intellectual disabilities
People who is experience psychosis
Elders who have cognitive dis-functioning

7. Normally, counselor need to have both parents’ consent to give minors therapy. However when one of the parents disagrees to give consent, the counselor can consult his/her supervisor and legal aid to see if one consent is enough to proceed to therapy. At least the counselor has to document this issue to stay away from legal troubles.

just need to answer this prompt, I would like it to be unique in a way and not a general essay written for others on this prompt. It does not matter what issue is written about as long it is appropriate for a college admission essay. Thank you very much.

Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and could be taken to identify a solution.

C-2 – Individual research on existing or emerging IT-related technology and related ethical issues established in paper C1
This is the second part of a three-part assignment, an individual assignment to research the ethical impact that arises when using databases.

a. You are required to use the topic from your C 1 “Ethical Issues that Arises When Using Databases”. ( paper is uploaded)

b. Prepare a double-spaced paper. Please ensure that the research questions from paper C1 (paper is uploaded) are identified and critical thinking is applied in the analysis of the issues. Also make sure the major and minor effects of the technology are fully described, the ethical issues are fully developed and applicable theories are applied.

c. Ensure that your research addresses the “Ethical Issues that Arises When Using Databases”.

d. The paper must include a one page synopsis of “Ethical Issues that Arises When Using Databases” as the first page of the paper. You should state why you feel this is important and describe any supporting resources you found supporting your choice.
e. Indicate appropriate (APA) reference citations for all sources you use. You do not have to use the same identical references that were used in the uploaded paper. Just the research questions.
f. In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your paper should reflect appropriate grammar and spelling, good organization, and proper business-writing style.