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"The book covers six themes: 1. Understanding workplace ethics beyond just what is right and wrong. 2. Does ethics make good business sense? Can you motivate an ethical business focus well enough? 3. Establishing whose role is ethics, which explores the role of leadership, the social and ethics committee and HR. 4. Managing workplace ethics, which outlines a comprehensive ethics management system and includes a detailed focus on topical workplace issues. 5. The crucial tasks of measuring, monitoring and reporting on ethics and ethical performance. 6. Ethical decisions and dilemmas, which examines how to make those really tough ethical decisions. The book includes various practical exercises, checklists and guidelines, suggested workplace discussions, case studies and commentaries, and further reading."--Publisher description

Rules of professional ethics are connected with the social role ascribed to people realising the given occupation. Professional ethics is often taking on the form of a code of professional ethic, that describes the socially accepted ideal.Professional ethics and businnes ethics are extensive and in our times vital phenomena of circumstantial ethics and their relation in a triangle: morality, economical life, politics. The moral norms mark out how you should act towards other people and towards yourself. The difference between moral norms and the law norms lies in dissimilarity of consequences, that every individual has to suffer in the case of breaking any of these rules. Every ethics, general or professional, is a set of rules which is an ethical behaviour. That is closely connected with the system of punishment and award in which people live.

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This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive feature is its thorough integration across personal and institutional perspectives; across applied ethics and political philosophy; and across philosophy, business, and economics. Part 1 studies markets, property rights, and law, and introduces normative theories with many applications. Part 2 examines the purpose of corporations and their responsibilities. Parts 3 and 4 analyze business and economic life through the ethics and values of welfare and efficiency, liberty, rights, equality, desert, personal character, community, and the common good. This second edition maintains the strengths of the first edition - short, digestible chapters and engaging writing that explains challenging ideas clearly. The material is user-friendly, with an emphasis on a strong theoretical core. Easily adaptable to the instructor's teaching, the chapters are separable and can be shaped to the interests of the instructor with suggested course outlines and flexible application to case studies. This text is designed both for coursework in business ethics, as well as interdisciplinary programs in philosophy, politics, economics, and law. This second edition revises presentation of eight normative theories, with increased emphasis on linksto business and economic life; incorporates recent scholarship on shareholder/stakeholder debates about the purpose of corporations, bringing this important topic up to date; includes a new, streamlined preface that provides a quick overview of the book before smoothly guiding the reader to the first chapter; uses updated examples and applications; revamps a useful appendix, including enhancing the popular primer on ethics; includes Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Biographies, and Lists of Further Readings at the end of each chapter; and includes a new ending chapter on the value of an ethical life.

False, but common, assumptions about dilemmas in moral reasoning and the so-called fact/value dichotomy can impede the prosecution JERHRE's prime aim: Facilitating ethical problem solving in human research. Research ethics, and the development of moral science, demand better assumptions about ordinary everyday problem solving morality and the deep-seated connectedness of facts and values.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Ethics and the Challenges of the Contemporary World -- (Selected Problems) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Why Do People Make Specific Moral Choices -- and What Is Truth? -- Traditional Domains of Ethical Considerations -- Classification of Ethics within the Modern Philosophical Discourse -- The Role of General Ethics in Social Life -- The Nature of Applied Ethics within the Context of Professional Deontology -- Dissonance between Normative and Descriptive Ethics -- The Place of Applied Ethics and Situational Ethics within Contemporary Philosophical Considerations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Monism, Dualism, and Supervenience: A Debate on Distributive Justice -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Nagel's Dualism -- Murphy's Monism -- Strengths and Weaknesses -- Supervenience -- References -- Chapter 3 -- The Importance of Establishing Ethics Committees within the Health Sector -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Importance of Establishing Ethics Committees -- Structure and Functions of an Ethics Committee -- Support and Oversight of the Ethics Committee Activities -- Main Goals of the Ethics Committee -- The Role of Ethics Committee within the Health System -- Membership of the Ethics Committee -- Risks and Benefits -- Documentation and Communication -- Confidentiality in Medical Practices -- Ways to Minimize Confidentiality Risks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- The Convergence of Technologies in Healthcare: New Challenges for Bioethics -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New Opportunities and Challenges for Research -- 3. Old Challenges for New Technologies: Ownership, Privacy and Consent -- 4. Moving a Step Forward: The Right to Be Forgotten -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Blank Page

Once the stuff of science fiction, recent progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning means that these rapidly advancing technologies are finally coming into widespread use within everyday life. Such rapid development in these areas also brings with it a host of social, political and legal issues, as well as a rise in public concern and academic interest in the ethical challenges these new technologies pose. This volume is a collection of scholarly work from leading figures in the development of both robot ethics and machine ethics; it includes essays of historical significance which have become foundational for research in these two new areas of study, as well as important recent articles. The research articles selected focus on the control and governance of computational systems; the exploration of ethical and moral theories using software and robots as laboratories or simulations; inquiry into the necessary requirements for moral agency and the basis and boundaries of rights; and questions of how best to design systems that are both useful and morally sound. Collectively the articles ask what the practical ethical and legal issues, arising from the development of robots, will be over the next twenty years and how best to address these future considerations.

Ethics is an international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy. It publishes work from disciplines that have a normative dimension, including philosophy, law, economics, and social and political theory. ; Includes section "Book reviews". ; An international journal of social, political and legal philosophy. ; Ethics is an international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy. It publishes work from disciplines that have a normative dimension, including philosophy, law, economics, and social and political theory. ; Includes section "Book reviews". ; Mode of access: Internet. ; v.1-41 (1890-1931)