t: Types of ethical dilemmas
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Typical Moral Dilemmas Confronting Business Communicators
Ethics and Law for Management Communication
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As part of an effort to hire younger workers, a multinational organization assures applicants that they will get to visit its offices in other countries and work with the employees there. However, only two out of every nine workers actually get selected for such projects. What moral dilemma best fits this scenario?
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unethical company practices
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company allegiances
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outright lies
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cosmetic half-truths
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A cosmetic half-truth involves emphasizing a small part of the truth to make it seem more significant
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Most companies have policies in place detailing how such information can be used.
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You and Your Employees
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Gabriel's job involves overseeing business correspondence between his company and various governmental agencies. The passage of a certain act made this correspondence available for public scrutiny, and so Gabriel must ensure that all communication satisfies government requirements without divulging valuable company secrets. Which of the following acts made this correspondence available to the public?
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
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The Freedom of Information Act
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Act
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The Civil Rights Act
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All business documentation routinely collected by the government may now be available to the public, following the passage of the Freedom of Information Act.
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You and the Government
Concept: Recognizing cultural differences
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Materials on the concept:
Understanding the Concept of Culture
Developing Cultural Competency
Overcoming Ethnocentrism and Stereotyping
Contextual Differences
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Which of the following terms refers to a shared system of symbols, beliefs, attitudes, values, expectations, and norms for behavior?
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Demographics
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Commerce
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Persona
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Culture
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Culture is a system of beliefs, attitudes, values, and expectations of behavior that everyone in a particular society
A culture is a way of life. It can be described as a group of people who have a commonality or shared values in attitudes, customs, beliefs, ethics, and value systems (Native American Death Rituals). The main effect, or thing that makes a culture
Culture is the pattern of action and the ways of perceiving, feeling, and thinking acquired growing up in a particular group of people
Culture can be defined as the behaviours and belief characteristics of a particular social, ethnic,
Ethical implications arise when a situation deals with principles of morality and resolution is neither right nor wrong. Because of the stress and emotion ethical dilemmas present us with; steps have been recognized to help work through determination. Although each and every situation is unique, a framework for problem resolution along with laws for ethical situations has taken effect.
Culture: Culture refers to values, languages, symbols, norms, beliefs, expectations that members of a group possess and the good things they produce and use in their life. Culture is the thing that all the members of a group or society follow.
Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people.
Ethical dilemmas occur when there is a disagreement about a situation and all parties involved question how they should behave based on their individual ethical morals. (Newman & Pollnitz, 2005). The dilemma that I will be addressing in this essay involves Michael, recently employed male educator working in the nursery, and parents of a baby enrolled at the centre. The parents have raised concerns about male educators changing their child’s nappy as they have cultural practices that do not allow this practice to take place. This situation is classed as an ethical dilemma as there is a dispute between cultural beliefs and legal requirements within the workplace. There are four parties involved (parents, child, educator and director), all
Let 's consider this scenario, Jill a 45-year-old woman and vice president of sale in a family owned mid-sized candy corporation have an ethical dilemma in regard to recommending Henry, William Potter oldest son to the position of C.E.O.
Culture is a system of beliefs that are shared and communicated within a certain group of
People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.
a) Providing a record of actual work performed, which provides assurance that the auditor accomplishes the planned objectives.
A culture can be defined as a way of life of a group of people- their behaviors, beliefs, values that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. It also includes the customs, arts, literature, morals/values and traditions of a particular society or group (Virginia Encyclopedia). Culture can also be considered as a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in places or organizations. This topic is of huge importance to our society mainly in the state of
Culture is defined as “The ideas, attitudes, customs, beliefs, values and social behaviour of a particular group of people or society that are passed on from generation to generation” (Brentnall, A., n.d.).
“Brad is a production engineer at a bicycle company and part of his job includes inspecting broken bikes and drafting the design repairs for their repair” (Bartlett). Brad is considering replacing a broken brake cable with a more durable material, even though the customer did not request it in their order and specifically requested that “No aesthetic changes be made to the bike” (Bartlett). Brad’s manager suggests that his considered actions would go against the company’s policy of “The customer is always right.” Should Brad disobey the manager and the customer to possibly lose his job or go along with
Culture is described as the symbols that individuals, groups and societies use to make decision of daily life and to assure their values. Culture is a model of basic assumptions invented, discovered or developed by a given organization as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaption and internal combination, which has worked well enough to think correctly and, so to instruct to new comers as the valid way to observe, consider and feel in relation to these problems. Culture consists of manner, mind-set, values, rituals, religious belief, law (written and unwritten), arts, ideas, custom, belief, ceremonies, social institutions, myths and legends, individual identity and behavior. Cultural pattern classifies are used to describe the dominant beliefs and values. Culture has been called the way of life for an entire society. It is a group or community living together and sharing a set of norms. Culture and society are coexistent. One does not or cannot exist without the other. Culture and society may have some common elements but the two are not the same; they are not identical.