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Ethical Filtering

to fulfill this duty, "healthcare CFOs must be uncompromising in their adherence to the highest ethical standards" (Stango, 2006)....

Nurse Anesthetist Issues

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

Understanding the Consumer Decision-Making Process

This 5 page paper summarizes the elements of the consumer decision-making process and considers how marketers can use the consumer...

How Economic Affects Modern Day Business Management

is rare and usually requires that they have an effective monopoly, where there is only one firm, are or are acting in concert as p...

Ethical Analysis of the Telephone Records Controversy

number of theories that may be used in evaluating the situation at hand. II. Analysis When examining this case, one can use var...

First Central Bank Of River City - Harvard Case Study

vacation leave and death benefit plan. Employees paid for their own health insurance, though. The Union violated the law a number...

Ethics and Laws/Healthcare Organizations

informed consent as one would with other patients, who are not of this culture. Such questions that address the role of the law ...

BHS and Ethical Clothing

manufacturing process to ensure that human rights are not violated, and what steps they take to penalise such violations. ...

Ethical Business

the government of the Netherlands began requiring businesses to improve the environmental footprint they left in the wake of condu...

Changing Commodity Prices

being celebrated. For the consumer there is a choice, they can choose when to eat, and this will impact on the price they pay. F...

Assessing Capital Investments with Reference to Future Income Streams

The assessment of a capital investment is therefore complex and involves more than a simple financial calculation concerning the p...

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Case Study on Decision Making

the different aspects will be considered, rather than a single item gaining a disproportional relevance. Question 2 After readi...

Leadership and Decisions According to the Vroom-Jago Decision Making Model

made (Evans, 2002). There are also several disadvantages to group decisions. Group decisions can be time consuming and many decisi...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...

Philosophers and Their Weak and Strong Theories

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams

In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Organ Transplantation and Utilitarianism

This paper examines organ donation from the viewpoint of utilitarianism in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Environmental Ethics

alert the masses as to the underlying consequences of individual actions. A prime example of this concept is the notion of paying...

Utilitarianism in 'Shooting an Elephant' by George Orwell

In its raw form, utilitarianism appears to have the peoples best interest in mind; however, that extension is limited to the numbe...

Moral Duty According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines the ethics of moral duty within the context of Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill and the politi...

Morality

shows that not all people think alike. For example, God had commanded that man should not steal. Yet, is it morally right to steal...

Theory of Utilitarianism as Perceived by J.S. Mill

In five pages the utilitarianism philosophy as conceptualized by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill is examined with the 'The Ult...

John Rawls, Utilitarianism, and Distributive Justice

In five pages utilitarianism and distributive justice as depicted by political philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice are d...

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of ...

Euthanasia According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

is the same condition that essentially puts them in an ethical position to make this choice. The integration of Kants perspective...

Is Utilitarianism the Best Model for a Welfare State?

This 15 page paper asks whether a utilitarian approach is the correct model for the design of a welfare state. The writer uses the...

Philosophers on Morality

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

Warren Massacre and Utilitarianism

if Nagel had included in this line, a hint at travesties such as the Holocaust, the reader may well become more concerned with the...