Ethics

Competencies:• Evaluate the social, legal, and philosophical issues related to ethics• Distinguish the legal and ethical issues related to IT security and privacy• Appreciate the code of conduct of an IT professional Task: As a technology consultant you will be working with companies doing business abroad. Not all countries have the same ethical beliefs and policies as you. Issues of intellectual property, patents trademarks and trade secrets all arose. Respond to the following situation, stating both the positive and negative factors of operating in Asia. Be sure to include references. Situation: A company is considering opening manufacturing sites in Asia. However, the leadership of the company has heard from other leaders working in several Asian countries that they lost trade secrets and eventually pulled out. Task Requirements: Elements Exceeds Competency 90 – 100 Situation: Ethics abroad Provides a clear, thorough discussion of ethical issues that arise or could arise when working abroad. Discusses possible different ethical beliefs and practices in Asia specifically and provides supporting documentation. Resources are in APA format. Gives examples from the literature or own experience to enhance understanding.

1. Please write 10 page paper regarding publication ethics. 2. You can write any topic about publication ethics. 3. All 10 resources must be come from peer-review journals. 4. This paper must be made up of ‘Introduction’ ‘Body’ and ‘Conclusion’.

Create your own ethical case study based on your experiences and readings. You  choose professional area  Family/ Marriage Therapist  In your paper, include the following: Introduction: research the literature on ethics and leadership and provide the following: Define ethics. Used relevant supporting documentation to support your definition (Three or more references). Provide an overview about the role of ethics in leadership. Rationale for the case study: Describe the reason for the case that you present (Why is the topic relevant? How does it expand or contributes to a leader’s knowledge about ethics?) Case study: Provide a narrative with the case study topic that you identified. Include in your narrative any background information, describe the situation, and state how it affects the organization and whether it affects people inside or outside the organization. If the situation is from your own organization, be sure to maintain confidentiality at all times. Ethical stance: clearly describe why the case/situation poses an ethical challenge for an organization.

Ethical Dilemmas Essay Ethical and legal problems arise in healthcare organizations when the decision-making capacity of an elderly patient is uncertain, particularly when the patient’s decisions are at odds with the rest of the family’s preferences. The scenario provided here is about this type of situation. This performance assessment will provide you with experience in sorting through the sometimes-competing issues related to a scenario such as the one described, as well as experience in formulating actions that can help guide a healthcare organization through ethical problems that arise in caring for elderly patients. Note: Students may rely on conversations and notes gleaned from cohort lectures and Boot Camp. SCENARIO You are the healthcare administrator at a local hospital. A social worker has come to you to discuss the case of Jamilah Shah, a patient who has recently been admitted to the hospital. Jamilah is a 90-year-old woman who was brought to the hospital after collapsing at the side of her bed. EKG and lab tests revealed a heart attack. More than 40 years ago, Jamilah emigrated with her wealthy husband (now deceased) and their three sons from Turkey to the United States. Jamilah was a homemaker and learned only basic English, but her children are fluent English speakers. The children are now all in their 50s. The family retains Turkish culture and norms, including the sons acting as patriarchs for the family. Even though Jamilah is highly educated (in Turkey she was trained as a lawyer), the sons make many of the family decisions. Two of the three children are in successful careers. The remaining child, the youngest son, Bashir, owns a small market and struggles financially. Until yesterday, the day of her admission, Jamilah resided in an extended care facility (ECF), where she has lived since her husband’s death. She reportedly has severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and adult-onset diabetes mellitus. Jamilah has no advance directives on file. Because of her communication difficulties, the emergency department physician started her on anticoagulants while trying to contact her next of kin. The ECF sent paperwork to the hospital, listing Bashir as the emergency contact. Bashir was contacted and is now at the hospital with his two brothers. He has informed the care team that he is the decision maker, and he wants his mother to have a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order with no intervention of any kind other than comfort care. The social worker has come to you with concerns that this decision may not reflect Jamilah’s wishes. When the social worker was visiting with Jamilah alone, Jamilah reached for her hand and said, “Please help me. I want to live.” The social worker shares concerns about the interactions observed between Jamilah and her sons, stating that the relationships seem unsupportive. The hospital’s ethics committee has not yet been involved. The social worker also reports that the emergency physician requested a cardiology consultation, which was just completed. The consultant documented that “Because the family has requested only comfort care, and due to the patient’s multiple comorbidities, the patient will be managed medically, with no intervention, and will not receive cardiac catheterization or be considered for coronary bypass surgery.” If nothing is done, Jamilah will likely die within days. REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Note: Complete these prompts by using complete sentences. A.  Write an essay (suggested length of 5–7 pages, not including attachments). Do the following: 1.  Describe three potential ethical dilemmas presented in the scenario: one related to autonomy, one related to beneficence, and one related to non-maleficence. a.  Analyze legal implications associated with each of the potential ethical dilemmas described. 2.  Referencing the scenario, complete the attached “Questions Derived from the University of Washington Paradigm.” Using those answers, describe, in the essay, what happens when following each  of these courses of action: •   Course of action 1: Follow Bashir’s wishes •   Course of action 2: Refuse to follow Bashir’s wishes •   Course of action 3: Briefly delay the decision to gather additional information and other perspectives As a part of the description of what happens when following each of the courses of action, if a question is not applicable for a given course of action, explain within your essay why it is not applicable. Note: The completed “Questions Derived from the University of Washington Paradigm” should be included as an attachment to your task submission rather than in the body of the essay itself. 3.  Putting yourself in the role of healthcare administrator, describe in the essay what should happen next within the scenario by doing the following: a.   Describe two resources that could have made or could still make Jamilah’s wishes more clear. i.   Explain how each resource could have made Jamilah’s wishes more clear. b.   Choose and justify the correct course of action (in response to Bashir’s demands for only comfort care): •   Course of action 1: Follow Bashir’s wishes •   Course of action 2: Refuse to follow Bashir’s wishes •   Course of action 3: Briefly delay the decision to gather additional information and other perspectives i.   Choose one of the courses of action from prompt A3b that you did not justify and explain how possible consequences show that it is not the correct course of action. 4.  Create three policy recommendations that you could make as an administrator to help your employees and the facility’s medical staff handle similar situations in the future. a.  Justify each  policy recommendation.  Note: You may use laws, regulations, and/or ethical principles as recommendations in part A4 and as part of your justification in part A4a. B.   Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. C.   Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Stakeholders in Sustainable Business Transformation (15%; 100 marks total) Your progress Introduction In this module, we explored a number of broad forces that have significant influence on business, government, and society. In this assignment, you will focus on environmental issues and sustainable development as a growing force in business and society today. Decision makers integrating environmental and social issues and concerns with economic goals can face conflicting costs and benefits among these three elements of sustainable development. In this assignment, you will examine some of the environmental, health and social costs and benefits associated with an economic development project. You will also examine one business or organization that is implementing sustainable development policies and initiatives. Part A is a case study on the environmental, health, social, and economic impacts of the adoption of clean cookstoves in the developing world. Part B is a report examining a corporation or other organization that is transforming to more sustainable operations. Part A Read Discussion Case: Clean Cooking at the end of Chapter 9, and answer the following two questions. Question 1: Describe the ways in which the widespread adoption of clean cookstoves will address the global environmental issues discussed in Chapter 9. (15 marks) Question 2: Describe the ways in which the widespread adoption of clean cookstoves will address the issues of economic development and poverty discussed in Chapter 9. (15 marks) Part B Examine a corporation or other organization that is transforming to more sustainable operations. Analyze ways the organization is reacting to stakeholder influences and how the policies and initiatives of this organization, as well as technologies that they employ, are affecting stakeholders internally, externally, and globally. You should demonstrate your ability to incorporate and integrate your learning from all aspects of this module. Ensure that you include information from the course material, the readings, your journal, and your own research. Choose from the following options: Royal Dutch Shell Interface, Inc. Hewlett-Packard (HP) A business or organization of your choice that is implementing sustainable development policies and initiatives. Please review the questions below to ensure the organization or business that you select is appropriate to the assignment deliverables. Note If you are not analyzing Shell, Interface, or HP), then, prior to beginning this report, you should email your Open Learning Faculty Member the name of your chosen organization to confirm that your choice is appropriate for this assignment. After selecting an organization, write a 2,500-word, double-spaced report containing the following: Section 1. External forces or influences: Identify three external factors that you think have influenced the company’s shift to more environmentally and/or socially responsible business management practices. Describe the ways in which these external factors influenced management actions and/or decisions or helped to transform the company. Provide evidence to support your observations. (30 marks) Section 2. Internal forces or influences: Identify two internal factors that have influenced the company’s shift to more environmentally and/or socially responsible business management practices. Describe the ways in which these internal factors influenced management actions and/or decisions or helped to transform the company. Provide evidence to support your observations. (20 marks) Section 3. Global impacts of sustainable development initiatives: Describe one real or potential global impact of the sustainable development initiatives of this company. Indicate the magnitude or significance of this impact in terms of its influence on global business and/or society. (10 marks) Section 4. Harnessing technology for sustainable development: Describe (with examples) how this company is using the Internet and other technologies to assist its efforts to move toward sustainable business and development. (10 marks)

Compare and Contrast on two ethical theories. Moral Realism and Divine Command. Basically defending my stance on my defense of Divine Command Theory and how it is stronger when compared to Moral Realism. I will attach previous discussion board replies as well as expected layout example and instructions supplied by instructor. Please Use some of the references listed in discussion board as well as outside scholarly articles. As the instructions detail, it is expected that I atleast use course resources. Since the writer of this essay will not have access to that just use some of the ones I have in my discussion board as well as outside resources.  Textbook is Moral Reasoning: An Intentional Approach to Distinguishing Right from Wrong by Michael S. Jones.

Should Health Professionals Speak Up to Reduce the Health Risks of Climate Change? Cheryl C. Macpherson, PhD and Matthew Wynia, MD Are Physicians Obliged to Lead Environmental Sustainability Efforts in Health Care Organizations? Cheryl C. Macpherson, PhD and Jonathon Hill

The following work ethics characteristics are emphasized: 1. Attendance  2. Character  3. Teamwork 4. Appearance  5. Attitude 6. Productivity 7. Organizational Skills 8. Communication 9. Cooperation 10. Respect Create a post that explains why you believe these traits are important or why not?

Imagine that you are the new ruler of a new country. This can be a country on Earth, or in a fictional fantasy location. There are no rules or laws in your country at the current time. As the ruler, you are to create a set of laws and values that your people will follow that will demonstrate and foster gender equality. This will help lay the foundation for your great leadership and rule, as you will be remembered throughout the ages as The First of the Wise! In your initial post, introduce yourself as the ruler of your country. Describe your country, your people, and the set of laws you’re developing to address gender equality. Use ethics of care as one of the driving frameworks of your laws. Bring in at least one additional ethical theory to suit your people and your style of rule. Regardless of which additional theories you choose, keep your goal in mind: how will you ensure there is no gender discrimination?

Introduction Kant’s famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative reads, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant taught morality as a matter of following maxims of living that reflect absolute laws. “Universal” is a term that allows for no exceptions, and what is universal applies always and everywhere. Don’t forget about the second formulation of the categorical imperative which states, “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.” It is just as important. Initial Post Instructions For the initial post, address one of the following sets of questions: 1.    What are the personal and/or communal ethical factors that may be involved in determining the moral position of either side given a contemporary debate, such as those concerning animal rights, stem cell research, abortion, the death penalty, and so forth? 2.    Elaborate in detail the ethical positions arrived at by using the Kantian categorical imperative relative to the long standing debate surrounding the death penalty or abortion. Argue the ethics from the point of view of the prisoner or from the fetus 3.    Evaluate the ethical positions in part two. You will want to detail whether they are convincing, logical, correct, consistent, etc.