Individual Assignment: Personal Ethics Development Paper
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· Character: Moral actions based on duty-driven ethical principles. These include trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Josephson Institute, 2009).
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· Ethical System: Underlying ethical principles, which a person uses to make decisions
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· Ethics: “The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization” (Treviño & Nelson, 2011, p. 17); ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation.
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· Morals: Actions based on one’s underlying ethical principles
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· Values: Those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money
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· Duty-based: A moral obligation or commitment to act in a certain manner, with clear right and wrong being determined by an outside authority
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· Entitlement-based: Moral decisions are based entirely on what is in the best interest of the individual, regardless of relationships, the needs of others, or business.
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· Goal-based: Focuses on the outcome or final purpose, which may be localized, as in business, or universal, as in feeding all the hungry children in the world
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