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6Lecture.pptxWeek six Learning Objectives
Summarize potential ethical risks in business by recognizing relevant issues, performing environmental scanning, and identifying reliable resources for uncovering future misconduct risks.
Analyze how trends in the economic, geopolitical, social, and technological environment lead to ethical issues in business.
Evaluate how emerging ethical issues affect the ethics and compliance function in an organization.
Starting this week we will review:
Future ethical considerations
Medical Tourism – a current and future ethical concern
Week six Introduction
Ethical issues of the future
Ethical issues of the future
economic,
environmental,
geopolitical,
societal, and
technological
Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social responsibility for managers [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/
This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title.
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A few questions from the Millennial Project – future ethical issues
Do people and organizations have a right to pollute if they can pay for it; e.g., by paying carbon taxes, pollution fines, carbon trading, etc.?
Should religious or scientific views prevail in embryonic stem cell research?
Should codes of ethics be created and enforced by an international agency to guide the behavior of international corporations?
Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
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The millennial project - 1
Should national sovereignty and cultural differences be allowed to prevent international intervention designed to stop widespread male violence to women?
Do we have a right to clone ourselves?
Does society have a right to clone animals?
What is the ethical way to intervene into any educational system that teaches hate and violence?
Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
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The millennial project - 2
Should there be two standards for athletic, musical, and other forms of competition: one for the un-augmented and another for those whose performance has been enhanced by drugs, bionics, genetic engineering, and/or nanobots?
Should information pollution (as environmental pollution is now) become a crime?
Is it ethical for society to recreate extinct species?
Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
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Medical Tourism – a Current and Future Ethical Concern
Benefits? Ethics?
“Medical tourism can come with benefits, but it also raises a serious a host of ethical and legal questions.” (Walsh, 2012)
Walsh, C. (2012, October 16). The rise of medical tourism. Harvard Gazette. Retrieved from http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-rise-of-medical-tourism/
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Top 14 destinations
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
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Procedure type and average costs
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Medical Tourism
Do you think it is ethical? Is there a place in society for this industry?
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References
Das, R. (2014, August 19). Medical tourism gets a facelift… and perhaps a pacemaker. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social responsibility for managers [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/
This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title.
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