Business Ethics: ethical issue, ethical decision, professional obligations, culture v ethics

1. What makes an ethical decision or issue ethical?  How would you explain the differences between ethical/nonethical and ethical/unethical?  What ethical issues or dilemmas have you experienced in the workplace?

2. Do professionals such as accountants and lawyers have duties and obligations that other people do not?  From where would such duties come from?

3. Are some ethical values or principles relative to one's own culture, religion, or personal opinion?  Are some ethical values not culturally relevant?  What makes them different?

4. What is the difference in your mind, and in common usage, between a perception, a generalization, and a stereotype?  Provide an example of each.  Are each or all consistently unethical judgments or are they sometimes or always ethically justified in their use and implementation?

5. Term papers on practically every subject imaginable are available on the Internet.  Many of those who post the papers defend their practice in two ways: (a) These papers are posted to assist in research in the same way any other resource is posted on the Web and should simply be cited if used, and (b) these papers are posted in order to encourage faculty to modify paper topics or exams and not to simply bring back assignments that have been used countless times in the past.  Are you persuaded by either argument?  Is there anything unethical about this service in general?  If so, who should be held accountable, the poster, the ultimate user, or someone else?

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