Ethics

In the process of developing helping relationships, trust is a component which is very important. Counselors consider the promise of privacy fundamental when one wants to establish trust in clients (Worzbyt, ORourke  Dandeneau, 2003).  Most counselees operate with the assumption that the information they have disclosed would in confidence of the counselor with some degree of exceptions. This does not only apply to adults but also adolescents and children. Counselors claim that handling...

An ideology is a collection of thoughts and aims that expresses a persons objective, outlook and dealings. The major idea behind an ideology is to change the society and recommend such principles where agreements have previously existed. Ideology is applied in criminal law in such a way that causes of crime are found and than individual treatment is given in order to change the ideology of criminals which will reduce a criminal repeating the undesirable behavior. In USA for example black people...

The act of refusal to abide by certain commands, laws and demands of the government is referred to as civil disobedience. It is also regarded as a form of non-violence resistance. A law is a practice or custom that binds the society together.  This law can be unjust if it is unfair or characterized by injustice. There are instances whereby reinforcement of just laws is unjust. As a result people have devised different methods to address unjust laws in society. To a greater extend a nonviolent...

In the 2009 post-apocalyptic movie, The Road, based on a critically-acclaimed novel by Cormac Macarthy, a vagabond character played by Robert Duvall is asked if he ever thought about giving it up and dying, and he replies that, No, in these times we cant afford luxuries. In this film the protagonist, played by Viggo Mortensen, and his son set out on a long, grim and grueling journey in the hope of meeting a band of survivors of the world-destruction caused by some unspecified cataclysm. In the bleak,...

From year to year, environmental ethical issues have been an issue of both national and international concern. Ethics go beyond actual laws as they are common principles that all people live by, follow or agree upon. Environmental ethics involves the ethical relationships between human beings and the environment or in other terms the morality of peoples actions as they impact on our natural world or the environment. Environmental ethics subject was made into a philosophical discipline in the 1970s...

The tagline of this article, From workers homes to halls of government is beautifully written and succinctly captures the case of Enron. The failure, rather collapse of Enron is said to be one of the biggest business downturns in the United States of America  it went one from extreme of prestige and profits to the other extreme of bankruptcy and insult. One of the most important stakeholders of Enron is the customers of it  people who were buying their shares. Due to its tremendous reputation,...

The paper attempts to formulate a policy for a security department with special attention to the training of the procedures and legal issues surrounding implications of security contraventions. The paper observes that any act and decision taken by the security personnel has a potential of risks, and if not appropriately handled within the legal avenues, may in turn end up into civil lawsuit against the individual security officer and the organization. To guarantee a fair trial process, the security...

Originally a gas pipeline company and, with time growing into the worlds largest trader in gas, electricity, water, and various other commodities such as bandwidth, Enron Corporation had built itself a reputation as a respectable corporate entity. Indeed, many people, including corporate organizations, looked up to Enron as a role model and a representative of corporate American organizations not only in the United States but also in other countries that looked up to America in terms of corporate...

Today many businesses are involved in unethical activities. In the event industry employees cross their ethical boundaries from time to time, either deliberately or because of ignorance. Often event managers are faced with situations that could be harmful for the company, for his client and himself as well. If a company does not have a code of ethics to guide event managers, the ethical boundaries will be crossed easily and frequently (extracted from Silvernail, 2009). Employers, who value ethics,...

The documentary, EnronThe Smartest Guys in the Room, which was based on the book of the same title by authors Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, was a presentation depicting the inner workings surrounding what is generally considered as one of the biggest business scandals in American history.  The facts and arguments offered in this film, quite sadly, tell of a succession of pre-conceived implementations of well-planned schemes by the major players comprising the top echelons of the aforementioned...

On March 6, 2010, I participated in the Ethics Game Simulation as part of the course requirement. Admittedly, I was not very excited about doing this simulation, but after I began the simulation, I found myself not wanting it to end.  This ethics simulation has taught me the value of personal values and morals in the workplace.  I learned that profit is not always the main goal in order for a company to thrive and be successful.  Most importantly, I learned that personal integrity...

Nowadays ethics becomes an important subject of study when we discuss police. The accountability to people is also a vital concern for the police department. In this paper I will be discussing about the police behavior, and how can we control it by value system. Moreover, i would be discussing The Huntsville Prototype following with the analysis of the ethical training programs in todays world. Then finally why do police need ethical standards and how can we improve it. Nature of police The police...

The research paper concerns ethics in health care, namely, the issue of placing feeding tubes into terminally ill patients. Terminal illness describes an active and malignant disease that cannot be cured and usually causes death of a patient, for example, cancer, heart disease and dementia. A terminally ill patient undergoes various stages, the first one being disbelief, anxiety about the unknown, anger, shock and despair. The second stage is depression which usually occurs after diagnosis. In...