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This is a good review of all the business ethics issues brought up in one issue of Canadian Business. Very helpful if you're still getting the hang of how we're using Diigo to identify and share examples of moral issues. 

Denmark is working towards creating a more balanced reporting on gender issues in the Pakistani media

Life or death issues should be the most ethical issues we pride ourselves upon. When there are doctors paying who are simply paying to save themselves from losing their liscences and potentially going to prison, we definately need to take action.

This article may not specifically talk about ethical issues. However, it is an example of a little thought I had. What if more ethical issues were taught/enforced in the work place? If people are learning the need to be ethical while they're at work around 8 hours a day, perhaps some of that will spill over into their every day lives and we may see less stories such as this. All be it in China. America has firms in China as well. We could be setting an example over there.

A week of focus on issues in education at whitehouse.gov

The NBA is currently in a lockout, but a player, techinically an employee, has accepted taking a season off in order for the NBA, or business, to work out their issues.

Diversity and ethics go along way in the workplace and are soemthing to be taken very seriously. Every business should take pride in these categories and make sure they are implementing training programs so none of these issues conflict with their work.

I think animals going extinct is a very ethical issue. Especially when one of the main causes is poaching.

Procrastination: a moral issue resolvable with critical thinking? 

Very Interesting. I have a huge case of procastination, and get mad at myself every time...

Lucy Kellaway's Financial Times podcast is a great resource for brilliant (and often hilarious) analysis of contemporary issues in the professional world. For a good example listen to her qualified version of Lord Acton's dictum on the way in which power corrupts: "Pretenders to power are the most dangerous"

Do universities need the same kind of accountability as it was discovered businesses do? This is an issue students should be as concerned about as faculty. 

Angry Birds is expanding from your cell phone to Barnes and Noble and now Starbucks. The gaming world is entering coffee shops.

What do you think is the moral issue in this, Marissa?

I guess I don't think the idea of pelting pigs with birds is very moral in itself. It seems like a lot of video games are about killing and after working with elementary kids, a lot of the anger issues are stemming from video games/movies/television. I think video games are over taking our world. However, I do suppose it is a wise marketing strategy for Starbucks.

This outlines some common workplace ethical issues.

There has always been a real ethical issue on what to wear and what not to wear to the office. In this article it talks about that even in the great summer weather, you should always be professional and it points out a few valid guidlines for that.

office summer attire meets common sense

I thought considering last week's reading, this blog post was good to look at. It coincides with Maitland's argument for sweatshops. The part I found most interesting was this: "The most important aspect relating to the morality of sweatshop labor is that it is voluntary. That is, sweatshop laborers get up in the morning and choose to work in a sweatshop instead of doing anyother possible thing on any given day. Why would they do that? It's simple, by working at a sweatshop a laborer is able to earn more for himself and his family than he would otherwise be able to were he not employed at that sweatshop. The laborer has the choice to either perform some other task for money, produce his own goods and services, or go work for the sweatshop. He has made the decision that what he gains by working at the sweatshop is more valuable than what he would gain doing anything else." It begs the question of who gets to decide what these workers do in their lives to support their families and how they should feel about those choices.

Another good reflection on this issue, jdybing. One of the issues with this type of argument is that it's rather theoretical. It simply isn't true of all people that "The laborer has the choice to either perform some other task for money, produce his own goods and services, or go work for the sweatshop." Even if this is true, the next question is whether we should just accept a type of work and working conditions that demoralize people and trivialize the value of their lives. What Maitland says of sweatshops is just as true of the practice of child labor early in the industrial era of the US, where children were not only doing dehumanizing work but doing so under extremely dangerous conditions. It's hard to see how anyone would actually "choose" this type of life given viable options for doing something else.

Ethics Forum - A column that answers questions on ethical issues in medical practice

Many of us take our clean and safe water for granted, but others aren't so fotunate. Glad to see we are taking great strides to make a difference; making a World Water Day is a great start.

This is an 8 page are article about what we should be doing ethically to prevent global warming

Very good essay, Marcus. Interesting angle on the ethics of inaction, and a very good analysis of the issue from a 'divine command' perspective.

It's true, when it comes to global warming, we always think it's someone else's responsibility to fix what we've destroyed.

Unique perspective. I never thought of sitting in church and being told I was an environmentalist. It makes sense.

This site has a helpful tip every day to being green.

Great resource, Kara. One of the biggest challenges for sustainability is getting people to notice and change everyday types of behaviors by which we unnecessarily use and consume energy.