Devry ETHC445 Week 7 Assignment Latest 2021 June

ETHC445 Principles of Ethics

Week 7 Assignment  

Case Study Analysis

Case Study and Your System of Ethics

This case study is due end of Week 7. Please plan to begin your research and writing this week. This assignment has three main sections, as follows.

+ Select an organization  that has dealt with significant internal or external ethical issues recently. Examples are listed below. This will be the foundation of your case study. To complete your case study, you will need to conduct research on your selected organization and consider the ethical issues you find to be involved with it. You will also need to locate the organization's own code of ethics, if it has one. Most publish their codes online. There are examples of codes of ethics in our modules this week. If your organization doesn't have an explicit code of ethics, research general codes of ethics for your organization's type (e.g., business, legal, journalistic, political, environmental, religious, charitable, or medical). Be prepared not only to describe your organization's ethical issues and to furnish specific evidence of them but also to note whether and how these ethical issues have violated the organization's own code. You're going to use the ethics concepts from this course, coupled with your own system of ethics, to analyze these ethical issues by following this outline...

+ Make your own personal system of ethics explicit  in order to prepare your reader for your analysis of your selected case (organization and ethical issues). You don't need to write a manifesto; rather, you should lay out your system as simply as you can, with support from our course concepts (lessons and readings) where it's useful. For example, you could say that you believe in moderation, but it's much more interesting to note that like Aristotle, you see virtue in it (good place for a citation!). Find your own balance of the personal and the academic. This is a chance for you to show off who you are and what you've learned here.

+ Use your own personal system of ethics to analyze your selected case.  Provide your own analysis based on your own personal system of ethics of how the organization and its issues are problematic and how a solution, if there is one, might be reached.

Your collaborative set will benefit from your meeting with classmates, to brainstorm, and perhaps find a common problem, case study, theme, or predicament to narrow in on. If  you use illustrations, they aren't casual clipart, but related to the topic precisely.

Ensure legible fonts, viewable backgrounds, and proofreading going beyond spellchecks. It's six content slides in APA format in-text citations plus a bibliography slide separately beyond the six content ones. Remember URL's alone aren't accepted. See my sample slideset for a model (pdf below)

Note: This is an APA project that uses and cites course material (textbook and lessons) and includes at least three additional high-quality sources as support. For these additional three sources, you might choose further work by philosophers or conflict resolution providers we've covered, work by philosophers or thinkers from outside this course, work by scholars who are thinking about the same issues you are, or commentary from media experts who are looking at the organization and its issues in the press. Whatever you do, do not rely on Google; use the library to find high-quality sources and make sure you understand who and what they are so that you're aware of things like authority and bias. Also, as many topics emerged recently or may be ongoing as to their coverage, use flexibility to find legitimate research. This may include print or broadcast journalism, podcasts, and social media.

Each of you uploads only his/her own case, and his/her particular choice of principles, applications, and examples--these are up to you, individually. The "silent slideshow" project will include the following sections. I expanded #3 below into one "personal" and one "philosophical" as paired slides. See my sample pdf slideset further down.

Introduction/thesis: Provide a strong introductory paragraph with a guiding sentence that lets your reader know what your paper will cover and why.

Facts:  Describe the organization, any important events, and the related ethical issues. What has happened, and what is happening now? Has the organization violated its own professional code of ethics? How can you tell?

Personal Ethical Philosophy: You're taking a break from the organization and its ethical issues. Here, you'll explain your own personal system of ethics, both what it was before you took this class and how it has developed via our course concepts and your own research.

Analysis:  Use your own personal system of ethics to analyze the organization and its ethical issues. Make sure always to relate your statements about the organization and its ethical issues back to your own standards of behavior as outlined in number 3, above.

Resolution and/or Conclusion:  If you see a possible resolution of this organization's ethical issues, present it clearly. Again, relate it back to your own standards of behavior as outlined in number 3, above. If there is no resolution that you can see, that's perfectly fine. You can use a more standard conclusion that restates and adds value. Credit whomever of your case study classmates assisted you in investigating this example.

As for examples, here's mine. I lacked space for all image credits, but they came mainly from the hyperlink on the title slide. Ecuador's "ethical chocolate with a conscience," Pacari.

CaseStudyFinal_ 7 Pacari-1.pdf  download 

Organizations With Recent Ethical Issues (examples, and you may find your own)

AICP  " Ethics Case of the Year  (Links to an external site.)"

U. Texas  " Ethics Unwrapped 50+ Cases  (Links to an external site.)"

Yale  " Top 40 Most Popular Case Studies  (Links to an external site.)"

Santa Clara  " Applied Cases  (Links to an external site.)"  in many fields, business + beyond}

Sweet/Sour 16:

Tech firms + "ethical guard rails around AI (Links to an external site.)"

Orlando PD using Amazon facial Rekognition  (Links to an external site.)tech (Links to an external site.)

"Veterans speak out about the militarization (Links to an external site.) of {professional} sports."

Social media ("callout (Links to an external site.) or cancel culture (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)" bans a professor (Links to an external site.) or celebrities (Links to an external site.) or journalists (Links to an external site.); see those whose careers ended.) (Links to an external site.) Or, de-platforming (Links to an external site.) download (Links to an external site.) of right-wing provocateurs (Links to an external site.)  download (Links to an external site.) cheered by the left (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.) download (Links to an external site.) and challenged by libertarians (Links to an external site.) download (Links to an external site.).

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Payday Loans  (Links to an external site.) or   Bail Bonds  (Links to an external site.) (lenders thwart state legal reforms)

U.S. military (see Army training for  "mentoring stewardship"  (Links to an external site.))

Tesla  (reversing for environmental reasons its policy of accepting Bitcoin) (Links to an external site.)

Black Lives Matter CEO Patrisse Cullors (Links to an external site.) resigns ( purchased luxury real-estate  (Links to an external site.) allegations vs  internal power struggles and lack of transparency  (Links to an external site.) and  demands by victims of police for funds from $90 million in 2020 BLM donations)  (Links to an external site.)

Cadbury's (global-chain chocolate contractors and child-labor laws) 

Robotic "automatic management" as our boss (Links to an external site.)

downloadHoney bees (Links to an external site.) vs neonic pesticides

HIPAA: vaccination status (Links to an external site.) vs. right to privacy

Alvarez v. US Supreme Court  (Links to an external site.)  download  (Links to an external site.)(free speech vs. " stolen valor  (Links to an external site.)  download  (Links to an external site.)" false claims of military honors)

Oportun  (Links to an external site.) (uses  debt collection lawsuits  (Links to an external site.) to  intimidate Latino immigrants  (Links to an external site.) to pay   high-interest personal loans  (Links to an external site.)  download  (Links to an external site.))

Big Pharma: Richard Gonzalez  (Links to an external site.)AbbVie CEO vs. Rep. Katie Porter (Links to an external site.) (D-Calif.): cancer drug "profits before patients"?

LAPD predictive policing algorithms by Palantir (Links to an external site.) data-mining to monitor "hot spots" + "chronic offenders"