Category: Ethics

Ensure that your responses to the questions are well-researched and adhere to APA 7th edition guidelines, including in-text citations and a reference list for Section 5. Please use the PowerPoint presentation (Chapter 6) and provided PDFs to answer the questions. Any additional material should be well-researched and must also follow APA 7th edition formatting guidelines.

Ensure that your responses to the questions are well-researched and adhere to APA 7th edition guidelines, including in-text citations and a reference list for Section 4. Please use the PowerPoint presentation (Chapter 5) and provided PDFs for answering the questions. Any additional material should be well-researched and must also follow APA 7th edition formatting guidelines.

Compare one major tradition in Western ethics (Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, Kant’s Deontology, or Mill’s/Bentham’s Utilitarianism) to a concept or aspect in one non-Western ethical tradition (Chinese Ethics, African Ethics, or Indian/Tibetan Buddhist Ethics).

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before. J Loren Norris
Over the last 8 weeks, you have (hopefully) learned a lot about yourself and about how grit and wellness relate to growth and success. Last week, you found a mentor to help you as you complete this course and as you move forward with your personal and professional life journey.
This week, you will investigate your leadership style and learn more about managing your career. In today’s society, ethical, respectful leadership can be hard to find. Yet, as you will learn when you take the Kirkpatrick Signature Series (the capstone of general education at Bellevue University), if we hope to live and work in a healthy, civil society, we need more people who are willing and able to lead in their families, at work, and in society. After studying the material for the week, you will schedule a meeting with your mentor to talk about leadership and career management and share what you learn with your colleagues in class.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this week, you should be able to
Discuss your leadership style.
Explain the importance of individual leadership in the workplace and society
Articulate areas of career growth and career management.
Too often, when we think about leadership, we think of leadership in terms of assigned roles or power. Leadership comes in all kinds of forms, and part of success is seeing where and how you lead now. In the videos for the week, you will learn about everyday leadership. These talks will help you to see and appreciate how you lead now.
Video Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership?subtitle=en
TEDxToronto, Drew Dudley, 2010
Video Link 2: https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?subtitle=en
Derek Sivers, 2010
The next videos share information on career development. The videos note that there are a variety of ways to pursue a career and manage it.
Video Link 3:https://www.ted.com/talks/misan_harriman_the_power_of_an_image_and_the_mind_behind_it?subtitle=en TED2023, Misan Harriman, 2023
TED2023, Misan Harriman, 2023
Video Link 4: https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_ellis_and_helen_tupper_the_best_career_path_isn_t_always_a_straight_line?subtitle=en
Video Link 5: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mathis_the_power_of_image_to_transform_your_life?subtitle=en
The text provides you with a more traditional perspective on leadership and career management. To learn more, we encourage you to read Chapters 12 and 13 in the online textbook for this course, Human Relations by Laura Portolese Dias.
Chapter Link: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_human-relations/s16-be-a-leader.html
For this assignment, begin by scheduling a time to talk with your mentor about your leadership style, your career goals, and your personal assessment of where you are in terms of getting to those goals. Review the material in the course textbook and jot down notes about where you are in terms of your career development.
Next, complete and score the following leadership assessments:
Quiz Link: https://www.mindtools.com/azr30oh/whats-your-leadership-style
Quiz Link 2: https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/leadership-style quiz
When meeting with your mentor, do the following:
Tell them about yourself and what you have learned this term. Here are items that you may use to introduce yourself to your mentor:
Personal biographical and professional background.
Your personal vision artifact from Week One.
Relevant results of your reflections and assessments related to grit, motivation, and leadership. (The assessments completed in this course.)
Goals that you wrote related to grit and communication in Weeks Two and Six.
Self-reflections on your strengths and weaknesses in terms of personal wellness management.
Ask your mentor to help you process the information shared as well as the implications this information could have on your personal and professional growth, future career decisions, and leadership in a diverse and changing world.

Edit/Rewrite Final Draft
Keep in mind: Your “initial draft” and final draft are almost identical, which does not provide me with evidence that you brought the final draft up from an outline slowly. While that was not a requirement, I wanted to see students’ progress – not just two final drafts.
I have read a few grammatical mistakes in the first couple of pages – make sure to use a spelling and grammar checker and proofread your final draft on paper, where you will find it to easier to spot mistakes than the computer screen.
You showed that you gave real thought to this topic and came up with some original ideas, which extended beyond the generic essay that would have represented the minimal effort. There were some grammatical mistakes, misused words, and a few sentences that could be better formed.
Essay Prompt:
Western ethics has historically prioritized male philosophers, often marginalizing the contributions of women and other underrepresented groups. Discuss whether corporate business
ethics today would be different if women’s philosophical contributions had been more fully integrated into ethical discourse. Construct a well-supported argument for your position using historical examples and ethical theories

Your responses should be in the form of a brief expository essay. Your essays should aim for clarity and accuracy. The aim is to show that you understand and have command of the relevant concepts and theory. It might be helpful to imagine that you are writing a brief entry for an encyclopedia. Your response will help readers understand the moral theories being discussed (for example, what rule consequentialism is) as well as the concepts at issue in the prompt (for example, what the “too demanding” objection is). The purpose of this essay is not to provide an evaluation. Rather, it is to practice clear and careful exposition of difficult concepts.
(Module 4) (Long response prompt, provide a response that is 750-900 words in length)
4. In Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill provides a utilitarian explanation for why lying is
morally wrong. What is his explanation? Also need to explain what utilitarianism is as well.
•(Module 7)( Short response prompt, provide a response that is 450-650 words in length.)
7. What is the difference between treating someone as a mere means and treating them as
an end-in-itself? In particular, how does Onora O’Neill suggest we understand these
notions?

Overview
In this week’s required resources, we have explored situations when using force or warfare is justified for particular reasons. We have also considered how peace can be achieved and how it can be sustained in the long term. This assignment will help you express your opinion about a question related to war, conflict, neutrality, and peace while considering how your culture and ethical frameworks influence your opinions.
Directions
For this short paper, choose one of the following scenarios and respond to it:
Scenario One
The survival of a particular political community itself is at stake. (Types of political communities might be nation-states, fundamentalist organizations, religious communities, or political parties.) In this instance, is it ethically permissible to use any means necessary to fight for it?
Scenario Two
A country has been suspected of ethnic cleansing or genocide, and the United Nations is considering intervention. The current government is a totalitarian dictatorship. Is it ethically permissible to impose democracy on an undemocratic regime? Why, or why not?
Specifically, you must address the following:
Explain why you think the action proposed in your chosen scenario is or is not ethically permissible.
Describe how your culture influences your opinion about this.
Explain how your ethical frameworks influence your opinion about this.
What to Submit
Submit your paper as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. If sources are used, follow APA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper. Although you will not be graded on the quality of your citations in this assignment, you may receive guidance from your instructor on how to properly cite sources.

This assignment requires you to apply Patrick Lencioni’s “The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team” framework to any business case that has faced some teams’ dysfunctions. The goal is to critically analyze the team dynamics and leadership issues that contributed to the dysfunctions of the teams and propose actionable strategies for improvement. You are free to select any business case that you want to work on. However, this cannot be fictious. Make sure to provide the relevant references (e.g., media reports) for the business case that you pick. So it is very important that it is a REAL case! I want you to find an article in English. Task: Analyze the teams’ situation through the lens of the 5 dysfunctions of a team. Use media reports and news outlets to conduct your analysis for the organization you picked.

NOTE: in your response, please make it clear what question you are answering. Using headings or numbers is appropriate.
Review this unredacted memo this unredacted memo. Note the actual source is the US Department of Transportation – not a car manufacturer – and is used by the government when analyzing which highway safety features to erect or what vehicle saftey features to mandate.
Review your previous answers and answer the following:
1. Does the fact that the government uses cost-benefit analysis for safety features change your opinion on whether it is appropriate to use cost-benefit for safety features? Explain why or why not.
2. Discuss the practicalities of this statement: “The value of life is priceless. Therefore car manufacturers should be required to install all available safety features.” Remember to consider the consumer.
3. What is the duty of a car manufacturer to the public? Remember to explain the source of that duty.
Length: Although there are no absolute minimums or maximums, a good estimate for this assignment is one paragraph per bullet point. Feel free to use more or less. The key is providing a definitive solution and sufficient reasoning/explanation for the conclusion.
Submission is evaluated on the support you provide for your position, not the position itself.

NOTE: in your response, please make it clear what question you are answering. Using headings or numbers is appropriate.
Review this unredacted memo this unredacted memo. Note the actual source is the US Department of Transportation – not a car manufacturer – and is used by the government when analyzing which highway safety features to erect or what vehicle saftey features to mandate.
Review your previous answers and answer the following:
1. Does the fact that the government uses cost-benefit analysis for safety features change your opinion on whether it is appropriate to use cost-benefit for safety features? Explain why or why not.
2. Discuss the practicalities of this statement: “The value of life is priceless. Therefore car manufacturers should be required to install all available safety features.” Remember to consider the consumer.
3. What is the duty of a car manufacturer to the public? Remember to explain the source of that duty.
Length: Although there are no absolute minimums or maximums, a good estimate for this assignment is one paragraph per bullet point. Feel free to use more or less. The key is providing a definitive solution and sufficient reasoning/explanation for the conclusion.
Submission is evaluated on the support you provide for your position, not the position itself.