Ethics Bowl: Why Suicide?

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Objectives:

Analyze a current debate case.

Explain an argument that supports a position for or against the case.

Apply an ethical theory to your argument.

Instructions:

1. Read case 2 “Why Suicide” from the 2017 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl Competition.

QUESTION: Should Netflix broadcast the show “Thirteen reasons why?”

Write three- five paragraphs evaluating the ethical issues of
the case and arguing FOR or AGAINST a position from the question. Make
sure to pick ONE position (for or against), identify the stakeholders,
address various ethical issues (e.g., freedom of speech, violation of
rights, happiness of society, autonomy, etc.), give at least 1 argument
that supports your position, and explain and reply to a possible
objection.

FORMAT:

Paragraph 1: Summarize the scenario briefly, focusing on the
elements that you will address in your argument and state your
thesis (pick a position either FOR or AGAINST)

Paragraph 2: Give one argument that supports the thesis. Remember to explain your argument fully, using examples or scenarios.

Paragraph 3: Give another argument that supports the thesis.

Paragraph 4: Explain a possible objection to the thesis. Reply to that objection.

–Your goal is to give objective arguments to support a
thesis.Use the theories that we have studied to support your arguments.
One of your arguments must explicitly address one of the ethical
theories we covered (Utilitarianism, Deontology, Cultural Relativism,
Social contract theory, Egoism, Divine command theory). Think about what
Mill or Kant would say.

–Make sure your arguments do not commit any obvious fallacy
such as anecdotal evidence, emotional appeal, fallacy of assertion
(stating beliefs or opinions), straw man, etc.

–Make sure you give REASONS for the position.

— Explain your arguments fully, using examples or scenarios.
Pretend that your reader doesn’t know the case, and does not agree with
you. Explain your argument fairly and sufficiently.

–Your last paragraph (or two) should explain a possible
objection against your argument, and then explain your reply. Thus, if
your thesis is FOR a position, explain an argument AGAINST the position,
and reply to that argument.

Assignment

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Performance Appraisal Assignment

Employment Application and Background Check Critique

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Obtain an employment application and background check policies and procedures from your employer or a company with which you are familiar.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you identify the strengths and weaknesses of a company’s employment application and background-check policies and procedures.

Answer the following questions regarding the employment application:

  • Does the application provide sufficient information to conduct a background investigation?
  • What waivers does the application contain?
  • What waivers not reflected need to be addressed?
  • Is the same application used for all positions?
  • What revisions would you make to the application?

Answer the following questions regarding the organization’s background check policies and procedures:

  • What checks are conducted?
  • What is the policy on drug testing?
  • Is a credit check standard?
  • Do background checks include interviewing previous and current neighbors?
  • Are references contacted and interviewed?
  • Is the background check procedure in place adequate?
  • How could the process be improved?
  • What are the EEOC restrictions which includes criminal records in conducting background employment checks?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Change Model Assignment, Assume you are the Sales and Marketing Director

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Change Model Assignment

Assume you are the Sales and Marketing Director for Sea Treasures, a small group of well-known retail stores specializing in exotic sea life and high-end accessories for aquariums. The company has been in business for over 50 years, but the customer base is shrinking, sales are slow, and you are faced with reducing staff and closing stores. Sea Treasures will be out of business within a year if innovative and creative changes are not made quickly. After many months, you have finally been able to convince the owner that the only way to sustain the business and increase revenue is to create an Internet Website to sell the large inventory of aquarium decorator items (currently gathering dust in a costly warehouse). This will be a short-term, small scale change. Six months later, you will expand the Website to sell live sea creatures such as tropical fish and small sea turtles online, which is a long-term, large-scale change.

You face many challenges in this transformational change initiative, beginning with strong employee resistance, new technology, and shipping methods. Many small businesses have been faced with these same issues, and have made the transition successfully. Consider the humble beginnings of Amazon, and look where they are today. Selecting the best change model for this business, and implementing it step by step provides the foundation for creating an exciting new company.

In 3 – 5 pages, explain which change model you would follow for the short-term change and which you would follow for the long-term change. Provide rationale for your decision and discuss the effects that these changes would have on the employees, managers, and executives within the organization. Include at least three references and follow standard APA formatting for your paper.

Evaluate Financial Statements and Financial Ratios

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Select a company of interest to you and a primary competitor of that company. The companies must be publicly traded and they should not be financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, or securities firms. They also must not be non-profit organizations. You might access www.hoovers.com and/or http://finance.yahoo.com for ideas about potential companies and competitor firms. After selecting a company of interest and a competitor, go to the investor relations area of the companies’ websites and view their most recent annual report.

Create a PowerPoint presentation in which you address the following:

  1. Assess the nature of the operation of each company. Describe the risks that each company seems to face as it strives for higher profitability and valuation in the financial markets.
  2. Present the past 2 years of financial statements (balance sheet and income statements) for each company in a single table. Discuss the trends you see in the key metrics as well as the comparisons you can make between the companies from these statements.
  3. Recommend relevant financial ratios and compare these ratios across the two companies. Present the ratios calculations in a table format using Excel, and then copy and paste that table into your PowerPoint document. The ratios should include profitability, liquidity or short-term solvency, debt management, inventory management, accounts receivable management, and the decomposition of the ROE.
  4. Evaluate each ratio category and form a conclusion regarding which company appears to be healthier for each category as well as overall. Be sure to spend meaningful effort to assess and discuss the ROE decomposition and the meanings you take from it.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as “speaker notes” for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists. Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included. Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.

Length: 10-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide

Quantitative-Analysis-and-Decision-Making

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In both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, statistics are critical pieces of information that allow decision makers to steer the organization in directions that are in the organization’s best interest. Data is acquired from many sources, some within the organization, and some from outside the organization. The government tracks data on many different aspects of society (including industrial output). The following questions will guide your thinking about the uses of data and information.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

  • In any business, the quality of decisions is often related to the quality of information. For instance, effective product marketing entails combining the right offering (keeping in mind that products are bundles of attributes and different bundles, or combinations of attributes, will appeal to different prospective buyers) with the right target buyer group. Knowing what constitutes the right offering and the right prospective buyer group usually involves data analysis. In general, using data to shape or guide business decisions entails a progression along the continuum of data → information → knowledge.
    • Determine the difference between data, information, and knowledge. Define the point at which data become information and information becomes knowledge.
    • Explain why meaningful and correct data analysis—statistics—is important in using the volumes of available business data. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.
  • Assume you are a marketing analyst working for a manufacturer of ready-to-eat cereal. You are given detailed sales data for the past year and asked to create a report showing the differences between the four sales regions (north, south, east, and west) in terms of sales volume, profitability, and changes in sales volume and profitability; marketing expenditures and changes in marketing expenditures; and per capita sales and marketing expenditures.
    • Evaluate which of the four types of data (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) is the sales data you are working on.
    • Compare specific statistical techniques and charts you could use to depict differences, specifically addressing each of the categories constituting your report. Determine which techniques and charts you would use. Then explain why you believe that the techniques and charts you have chosen would be appropriate. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.
  • You are analyzing the cross-store sales of a grocery store chain. As part of your analysis, you compute two measures of central tendency—mean and median. The mean sales are $358.4 million, and the median sales are $163.1 million (per store). To quantify the average sales per store, evaluate which of the two measures would you use and why. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 single-spaced pages (500–1000 words) in length.

Encapsulated-Tuberculoma

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what are the components of a well encapsulated tuberculoma,as seen in pulmonary tuberculosis

Chapter 8/Ethical Environment, business and finance homework help

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Below is 8 question, please answer with an 60 or more word count.

Chapter 8/Ethical Environment

1. What is HR’s role in creating an ethical environment?

Chapter 8/Creating Ethical Environment

2. My organization did not have a formal ethics policy until recently when I wrote one up. However, that did not mean we didn’t act ethically. Our owner is very caring and ethical which is great! By having an ethical person at the top of the organization, our employees were able to see that example and act accordingly.

Having a written ethics policy is important but it has to be followed. If you do not hire and retain ethical employees and hold those employees accountable, then the policy is moot. To help ensure policy is followed, you should:

  • Develop an ethics philosophy and specific guidelines for implementing that philosophy
  • Create an ethics credo that shows employees that they have obligations extending beyond their work
  • Set an ethical example

What individual and social factors can influence employee’s ethical behavior?

Chapter 8/FIVE P’S OF ETHICAL POWER

3. There are “Five P’s of Ethical Power” which are:

  • Purpose: Individuals see themselves as ethical people who let their conscience be their guide and in all cases want to feel good about themselves.
  • Pride: Individuals apply internal guidelines and have sufficient self esteem to make decisions that may not be popular with others.
  • Patience: Individuals believe right will prevail in the long run, and they are willing to wait when necessary.
  • Persistence: Individuals are willing to stay with an ethical course of action once it has been chosen and see it through to a positive conclusion.
  • Perspective: Individuals take the time to reflect and are guided by their own internal barometer when making ethical decisions (Goetsch, 2008).

Goetsch also said that deciding what is ethical is easier than doing what is ethical. I actually disagree with this statement and luckily our organization always makes the ethical decisions. What is your opinion? Do you agree with Goetsch?

Framework for Human Resource Management, Module A/Discipling

4. Explain how you would ensure fairness in disciplining, discussing particularly the prerequisites to disciplining, disciplining guidelines, and the discipline without punishment approach.

5. HRM needs to be consistent with administering discipline. According to DeCenzo, 2013, there are several guidelines that should be followed.

  • Make disciplinary action corrective rather than punitive
  • Use a progressive discipline approach
  • Follow the hot-stove rule
    • Immediate response
    • Advance warning
    • Consistent action
    • Impersonal application

Define discipline and the contingency factors that determine the severity of discipline.

6. Most employers base their termination policies from a union termination policy in that employees get warnings before they are terminated. For the most part I think this is fair because everyone makes mistakes and employees deserve to know what is expected of them. However, I have also heard it is difficult to be terminated in a union environment. Do any of you have any knowledge of this?

Because the process employers have to go through for terminating union employees is lengthy, do you think that creates an environment where employees can underperform and remain employed?

7. Why is it important to manage dismissals properly?

8. Why is it advisable for an employee retention effort to be comprehensive?

Controlling-Access-Applying-Risk-Management-Consulting-

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This is the third assignment of the series. Continue the Applying Risk Management Consulting assignment for your chosen organization.

Refer to your Week Three individual assignment.

Write a 4- to 5-page business proposal in which you cover what concerns and potential actions the organization should take for each of the following areas:

  • How to manage and control the use of cloud resources and other service providers that may be used for processing and data storage outside the organization’s physical locations
  • Specific recommendations to control mobile access to organizational system users (employees and customers)
  • Identify specific issues to be addressed with business partners and inter-connection of systems.

Note: Brief the organization on the major issues involved but keep each section succinct.

Format your business proposal consistent with APA guidelines.