Could someone please assist me with these two questions. Thanks in advance. Thin
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Question
Could someone please assist me with these two questions. Thanks in advance.
Think of an organization that you have either worked for, or are familiar with. Have the leaders within that organization followed the ethical principles that they set forth in their employment manuals? If not, what types of issues could this create for the workplace as a whole?
Question 2:When we look at science in today's world, we see that we are able to gain a significant amount of information about a person's health conditions (perhaps even before that person is born). What ethics issues can be seen by obtaining, and using, this information to make long term decisions on an individuals? What are the pro's and con's of making decisions in this fashion?
Explanation / Answer
These two are very interesting questions. Please find the answers to both the questions below.
1. Usually, the ethical principles are set based on the goal and vision of an organization. These ethical principles act as an evidence for that and the leaders must be well aware of these principles. So, based my experience and observation the leaders in the company stick to these ethical principles and also encourage their subordinates to follow them. This helps the companies in maintaining a good work environment and also in treating the employees equally irrespective of caste, creed, and sex. When the leaders violate these ethical principles, the employees can observe and they create a bad example for the future employees. This will definitely harm the brand image of the company and give an opportunity to the employees to question the behaviour of top management. Employees stop sticking to the rules and regulations and this will mess up the work environment creating an unrest among different teams. The compliance to the principles can be observed in large corporations and it is a very common practice among these companies. The small companies with less than 50 - 200 employees will see a lot of changes at the top management and they take time to follow a specific set of ethical principles as their primary concern is to do business and make a profit. So some of the startups violate these principles and encourage employees to concentrate more on the business side of it.
2. The information gained about a person should be used to treat health conditions. Some of the deadliest diseases could run in the family and spread to future generations. To prevent that from happening in the future the information can be used to create a better living condition for a person. Genetics is a very complicated subject and the above question can be debated without ending up with a satisfactory answer. Below are some of the pros and cons of this practice.
PROS
1. Cure deadly diseases.
2. Identify a possible health condition and come up with a cure for it.
3. Improve the longevity of a person or even a particular race.
4. Create a benchmark for healthcare activities based on the analysis to improve an existing drug.
CONS
1. Misuse the data to genetically modify the DNA and conduct illegal experiments.
2. Come up with a drug to suppress a positive trait in an individual or a particular race.
3. This could lead to a security breach and the information about a person might get leaked and land in trouble.
4. The organization should disclose the collection of the information or else it will be considered as a crime for putting an individual's identity at stake.