Assignment #4 Apply Ethic

1. Paragraph: explain in your own words what the relationship is between laws and ethics.
Law is backed by the power of the state to compel, to punish and coerce compensation of loss. Ethics are principles of conduct which cultures generally agree upon ... there is no state coercion involved if you don't behave in accordance with the standards. Laws are to maintain an order in society, and are not always based on ethics. You will find throughout life that one's personal ethics are either in conflict with, or are set at a standard above, the "laws" of the land. This is not unusual at all. The motivating force behind our agreement to follow the law is our understanding and assent to the concept that those we empower to enforce, execute and administrate the law will do so in a manner that is true and honest and unemotional in its delivery in an ethical fashion. Without an ethical delivery the law becomes a weapon and tool for deceit and treachery toward the very society the law was designed to protect and enhance.

2. Paragraph & Link: Find one online resources related to this topic—not Wikipedia.Explain in a brief paragraph what you learned about this topic through the resource you found; include the link at the end of your paragraph.
After I read an article about the law versus ethics in management, I understood clearly that there is a relationship between law and ethics. This relationship is important in management. Managers must evaluate not only what is legal, but what they are, their employees, and society consider ethical as well. Important here is that companies must also consider what behaviors their customers will and will not accept. No company wants to be forced to defend itself over ethical issues involving wages, the environment, working issues, or human relations. Managers play a vital role in a company's legal and ethical performance. It is in part their responsibility to ensure that their employees are abiding by Federal, State, and Local laws, as well as any ethical codes established at the company. But most importantly, the managers must provide a positive example to their employees of proper behavior in light of laws and ethical codes. Certainly, policies and procedures will never be developed to satisfy everyone, but the establishment of Codes of Ethics will at least provide a framework for ethical behavior, and allow customers to evaluate the type of company with whom they are doing business. With this knowledge, employees and customers must decide whether or not they are willing and able to conform to these Codes, as well as to the laws that have been enacted. Managers cannot simply limit their decisions to following the law. They must also consider the ethics of their employees and customers,http://www.theleby.com/susandocs/ethics(Susan M. Anstead).


3. Argument: Compose a short argument, in “argument elements” form. I’ll provide the arguable issue; you provide the rest. Make sure each of your premises is a complete sentence, and that your argument doesn’t break any of the rules listed in the first chapter of the Rulebook for Arguments:
Arguable Issue: The arguable issue is whether or not we need ethics, given that we already have laws.
Conclusion: we need ethics, if we already have laws.
Premises: we need ethics, if we already have laws because
(1) the laws is not possible without ethics
(2) We need ethics to support laws because laws is always follow by ethical society.
(3) Ethics is focus in moral situation, although laws provide our sufficient protection of our right.

The week 4 readings cover two chapters in the Ruggiero book, The Role of the Majority View, and the Role of Feelings. Each student must complete BOTH of the following assignments.The Role of the Majority View1. Paragraph: Explain in your own words what a Majority View is. Cite your sources.
According to the paragraph four on page 22, the role of the majority view is a large group or individual try to compare their thinking to the particular issues. A majority view has three classifies like a sample situation, the majority can err and sample response to inquiries. A sample situation might work in differences in an actual moral issues, but it is depending on response inquiries that people have an issues. The majority can err means the majority view is less than perfect. For example, if 1 percent or 49 percent of the population can be shallow or prejudiced in their of an issues. A sample response to inquiries depending on the people response that might help everybody to understand the kind of analysis and the form of response that are appropriate for the inquiries that follow.

2. Argument: Compose a short argument, in “argument elements” form. I’ll provide the arguable issue; you provide the rest. Make sure each of your premises is a complete sentence, and that your argument doesn’t break any of the rules listed in the first chapter of the Rulebook for Arguments:Arguable Issue:
The arguable issue is whether or not the Majority View is a reliable basis for ethical decision-making.
Conclusion: the majority view is a reliable basis for ethical decision making.
Premises: the majority view is a reliable basis for ethical decision making because:
(1) the majority view is depending on ethical decision making that people think what is right or wrong.
(2) sometime the majority view don’t have to reliable to ethical decision because the majority view is a reliable to moral situation.
(3) the majority view is base on a particular issue.

The Role of Feelings1. Paragraph: Explain in your own words what feelings are. Cite your sources.
Feelings are a reason that no one person’s view is preferable to another’s because each is good in its own way. A person think to be right is right for that person if a person believes to be wrong is wrong for that person. This statement is in paragraph one on page 29. The role of feelings classifies in five categories such as how feeling came to be emphasized, are feeling reliable?, a better guide is needed, sample response to inquiries and inquiries. Each one of them is develop in differences of moral relativism and largely responsible of its emphasis on feelings rather than reasoned judgment.

2. Argument: Compose a short argument, in “argument elements” form. I’ll provide the arguable issue; you provide the rest. Make sure each of your premises is a complete sentence, and that your argument doesn’t break any of the rules listed in the first chapter of the Rulebook for Arguments:Arguable Issue:

The arguable issue is whether or not our feelings are a reliable basis for ethical decision-making.
Conclusion: our feelings are not a reliable basis for ethical decision making
Premises: our feelings are not a reliable basis for ethical decision making because:
(1) every people have different feeling and opinion.
(2) we live in a moral ethical society, so feeling is base on individual decision.
(3) feelings are a reliable to the individual issue and moral.

The ability to express yourself in your own words is essential in this class. Did you put everything in your own words this time?
The ability to express in my own words helped me to improve my writing skill and challenging my knowledge.

What was easiest / hardest about this assignment?
To explain the role of feelings were easiest assignment, but to explain the relationship between laws and ethics were hardest one for me.

How will you apply what you learned through this assignment to your everyday life?
The roles of feelings are apply to my everyday life because I understood that feeling is not preferable to another, but it applies toward a particular person.

How well do you think you did on this assignment? Explain.
I should deserve 25 points because I put all my afford to this assignment.
I took my time to read the book and complete this assignment.