Moral Responsibility Moral responsibility seems to be a simple topic when glanced at, but reveals itself to be a very complex quandary when one delves into the deeper meanings behind trust and accountability. Harry Frankfurt has explored this topic with astonishing vigor and completeness in his article “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”, in which he proves with examples and sound reasoning how the conventional train of thought in the free-will problem is and can be irrefutably
means of consumer access and the intensity of competition between companies. I will discuss here the impact of globalization on the ethical responsibility of practices Integrated marketing communications and the The American Marketing Association definition of marketing ethics and the opinions of scientists on the ethics of marketing and I will mention examples of companies that have successfully benefited from the ethics of marketing and global companies failed to maintain
different meanings. Typically ethics deals with what is wrong and right or good and bad. Ethics are important because every day we find ourselves having to make moral decisions. To Christians ethics is based on God’s will. “Christian ethics is a form of the divine-command position” (Geisler, 2010, pg. 15). God’s will for us is in unity with his own moral characteristics. “For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” Leviticus 11:45
Elaborate Kant’s concept of intrinsic values with examples? Kant’s theory Kant's theory is an example of a deontological moral theory according to these theories, the rightness or wrongness of actions does not depend on their consequences but on whether they fulfill our duty. Kant believed that there was a supreme principle of morality, and he referred to it as The Categorical Imperative. Intrinsic value The value in which we consider humans as “END”, in which we care about their emotion, feelings
instances on who should be held responsible. Through numerous examples as illustrated in Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience” and “Replicating Milgram” by Jerry M. Burger, individuals that compromise their own ethics in order to follow the orders of those with authority, should indisputably still be held accountable even if responsibility
Ethical Responsibility is the responsibility which the company believes that it is the right thing to do and not because they have a legal obligation to do. Unlike legal responsibility and economic responsibility, both of these responsibilities are considered as main responsibilities which need to be performed by a company while ethical responsibility can be exercised after a company has complied with economic and legal responsibilities. Ethical responsibility is considered as moral responsibility
that generated the desire, and (iii) the desire was influenced by contextual reasons and, given different contextual reasons, they would have considered these reasons and acted differently. He utilizes an example that satisfies all three criterion of soft determinism and he argues that the example, in actuality, proves that one who is determined cannot be morally responsible. (Pereboom 22)
workers can be installed in the process. Since they knew the potential impacts could be very harmful for humans’ health from the research result in 1961, there was no ethical justification to continue the production considering the principle of moral responsibilities, ethics of care, nonmalenficence and ethics of virtue. Besides, it could hardly estimate the direct and indirect cost covering damage and compensation to workers’ health and society in the future. Their continuous manufacturing on DBCP could
define, in your own words, the following terms: fundamental attribution error, cognitive dissonance, and diffusion of responsibility. Provide at least one example for each of those terms. Fundamental attribution error: is when you tend quickly to judge others in base of a specific behavior without assessing the situation in which the behavior is occurred. For example, when participating in a business meeting which is a very formal situation, we imagine the participants as some extra formal
MAINTAINING ETHICAL STANDARDS 1. Ethical Decision Making Ethics are moral principles that guide a person's character. These morals are based on social norms, cultural practices and religious factors. Ethical decision making is the art of choosing from various alternatives keeping the moral principles in mind. All decisions have a simple reason behind them, i.e. they have an effect on others. Managers and leaders must know their own ethical and moral views so that they could rely on them during difficult situations