By law, it is illegitimate for a public officer to receive any kind of consideration from friends, workers, and third parties under clear circumstances that gift is motivated by the recipient's official position.
“A gift is benefit, favor, services, tickets to an entertainment or sporting event, or other items of monetary value”. (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2014)
However, the Mayor of the city’s action was more of self- interest than for the benefit of the people whom he serves. The purpose and basic needs for greater good of the people was not what the Mayor served and by this action small businesses may not afford giving him valuable items to secure contracts by the city.
Consequently, the Mayor acted in a way to create
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And I am also on that view that Mayor was self-centered, and his action could deny many people whom he serves their right to the city benefits. “Locke states that there are essential rights for every human being” and those rights were dashed by the Mayor’s unethical conduct. (Locke)
It was unethical for the mayor to accept all these gifts from contactors and future potential contractors with the city. The Mayor’s acts would certainly jeopardize his actions, judgments, and decisions on issues affecting those he has received some kinds of considerations. The Mayor had valued the gifts and various considerations he enjoyed for himself and his family, but this does not compensate for the breach of trust the voters bestowed on him, and surely the electorate would never vote for him in the upcoming election.
Consequently, the Mayor’s action is not ethically justified because what is not acceptable by law cannot be approved ethically. His decision to accept considerations from current and future contractors was against the
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She has failed to fulfil her lawful obligations, which as an instructor is to teach and groom students using different parameters that ensures they are well trained in different perspective to meet the challenges of the dynamic world. It was convenient for her to repeat the same materials every semester, and this has provided time for her personal studies.
The consequence of her action could result in denying the students their rights to having current and relevant course works because she was teaching her students with outdated materials. And also the student on that course may not be able to compete with their counterparts outside, and at work place such students will be half baked to perform optimally with their contemporaries.
I believe Locke would accept my stand that the students have their right to expect current and relevant course materials from their instructor, and they also expect her to be painstaking in preparing their lessons even though she is studying for her own doctorate degree.
Locke ethical principle is that “every person (students) has a set of fundamental rights that they are entitled to simply by existing. And it is Locke’s thought that these fundamental rights cannot be infringed upon in any way by any other person, action, or choice”.
Cruickshank, Garth & Romano is a new real estate appraisal and consulting firm. Richard Romano, a principle of the firm, had just completed a preliminary evaluation of a property for a new client, Watson & Musico. However, his client refuses to accept the appraisal and requested the value be increased by $4.5 million or else they would take their business elsewhere. Richard's decision on his client's estimate could have great impact on Cruickshank, Garth & Romano's success and its ability to develop new clients. The new firm could ill-afford to pass up on doing Watson & Musico's business but Richard also wanted to complete the appraisal according to his best estimate of the current market value of the property. This paper will analyze the ethical issues and alternatives for this case.
Mayor - a man who follows the normative beliefs of the town and will bend the laws to suit the popu...
The Mayor also has the power to appoint, promote, transfer, reduce or remove any officer or employee of the City, except those who are elected.
The publics perception of downtown became negative the people view of downtown was that "nothing is going on" and "nothing is worth saving."
...s; Plunkitt and those in Tammany hall made it their business to “know every man, women and child in the district,”(RIORDON, Chapter, 6) because they understood that those were their voting constituents. The reformers came to understand that they needed people like Plunkitt and the political bosses to look after “the organization’s interests, and the city’s interests all at the same time”(RIORDON, Chapter, 7). The system could not be reformed as long as the political bosses and politicians like Plunkitt remained in power. The political systems need reform, but the corruption in Tammany hall ran so deep, it would take a monumental act to reform the system. One of the problems with Plunkitt was, he did not feel he was practicing dishonest graft, but he and the political bosses did not see how their actions went against the people they had promised to serve.
In Fact, “every teacher as a guide needs to explain the course’s materials in a dynamic way to engage the students in the class” (Culpepper 331). Also, the teacher has to continue in touch with the students throughout the week to ensure that they will have the necessary assistance when needed while working on their school assignments. In addition, the professor has to expect that students will deliver their assignments with quality and on the correct date. Additionally, the teacher has to request to his/her students to avoid having chronic nonattendances. Furthermore, the professor should not accept a plagiarized composition, that is a crime.
On Monday, April 13th, 2009, I visited the Culver City city council meeting, and found that they operate using a council-manager form of government. For a city with a population of about 38,000, this type of governmental structure is fairly common, and I was not surprised to see it in action in a community where the median household income is around $56,000 a year. Culver City is also a culturally rich community with a 60 percent Caucasian population, and a quarter of the residents are either of African American or Asian decent. The mayor, D. Scott Malsin, is one of five members on the council, and his term as mayor is on a rotating basis. Having been to a Hermosa Beach city council meeting with a similar council-manager structure, I knew what to expect.
It is not uncommon for citizens, particular store or business owners to show their gratitude to officers by offering free cups of coffee, free meals, or discounts in exchange for their attentiveness and presence at the store. While the giving of a free cup of coffee may be an innocent gesture and certainly is not the sole contributor to ethical violations, or police corruption, the expectation, by the storeowner, of something in return is what establishes a “slippery slope” (Cheeseman, 2011). What makes a gift a gratuity is the reason it is given; what makes it corruption is the reason it is taken. The acceptance of even the smallest “perks,” such as free coffee, is problematic because it changes the mindset of officers. The slippery slope is corruption that begins with harmless, well intentioned practices and leads, over time, to all manner of crimes-for-profit (Delattre, 2004). If the reason the gratuity is given and taken leads to favoritism, impartiality, and prejudice, then this begins the downward spiral of unethical behavior.
A student and teacher should be able to openly communicate or discuss the content and/or topic in class. To begin the educating process, one must set the correct tone and setting for it. Education is supposed to be an “experience”. An experience is supposed to engage all that are involved in it. “That every reader, everyone engaged in any teaching or learning practice, explicitly wonders about his or her work as teacher or pupil, in mathematics, history, biology, or grammar classes, is of little importance. That as teacher or pupil in the experience of the critical instruction in content that all explicitly engage a “reading of the world” that would be of a political nature, is not of the highest necessity” (Freire 49). ...
What is the education of the student? What is the economics of the country? Politics. And what impact do Locke’s ideas have today? These questions represent only a fraction of a possible in-depth exploration of Locke’s lifelong work.
The ethical theory I will rely on for my scenario is formalism. Considering that this is a public servant and that the main goal of formalism is to carry out obligation and duty, formalism is the theory that will apply. Adhering to this theory means you treat everyone, regardless of status or relationship, the same. It would also mean that you could not use one person as a means to an end (Albanese, 2012). Therefore, doing a favor for the mayor for personal gain, such as a promotion, is clearly not alright.
Ferrell, O. C., Fraedrich, J., & Ferrell, L. (2013). Business ethics: Ethical decision making and cases: 2011 custom edition (9th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.
I would tell him I would only accept the money from his personal funds. The mayor’s corruption and arrogance made the dentist angry and as a result, the dentist chose to make him pay by having a painful procedure. Professionally the dentist should have not done what he did in this story. He did it for payback for the citizens of his town.
...at previously, sometimes in the midst of a discussion, people forget that there are two sides of a story and not everyone has to agree to yours. What we learn from our books or our studies is not what is necessarily important. What we learn from our peers and our professors is what’s important. Learning is more than absorbing fact, it is acquiring understanding, and it is being passionate about the material you are given. Each piece that we have read in class, and each comment that we make impacts a person no matter how little it seems. The education systems focuses too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. However, this course felt like we were learning something instead trying to finish the curriculum. As Albert Einstein once said, “education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.
The difference between ethics and morals, between unethical conduct and immoral behavior, is significant with regards to the actions of elected officials. Elected officials should be obliged to live with ethical conduct but necessary moral behavior. Obligating elected officials to live ethically exemplary lives with regards to their profession is appropriate because the officials are elected into their government positions by the nation's or region's citizens. Those denizens expect their officials to abide by the region's own ethics, by “well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ough...