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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"ethical decisions"”.
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Values and Ethical Decisions at Work: An Aristotelian Study of Greek Managers
… a sample of forty-two Greek managers perceive ethical issues, express values and make ethical decisions at work, with the purpose of exploring a concern about managerial ethical standards in Greece. The context of this study is the problem of extensive corruption in Greek society, and there is …
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The effectiveness of teaching moral development on the ethical decisions of first and second grade children
… curriculum can lead to improvement in moral and ethical decisions. Participants were administered two forms of an assessment over a six-month period. The first assessment was executed in September of 2001. The participants were then introduced to one supplementary term per month. They received …
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An Analysis of Beginning Counselor Education Master's Degree Candidate's Ability to Make Ethical Decisions Based on the American Counseling Association's Ethical Standards After Having Completed a Course in Professional Ethics
… the professional counseling candidate on the ethical implications they are most likely to encounter. This study examined a professional counselor candidate's ability to apply the information in a course in professional and ethical practices and their ability to make ethical decisions based on …
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Ethical decision-making processes among students in computing and implications for their professional development
… of their practice and capable to make ethical decisions. Developing ethical decision-making skills among computing students can be informed by knowing how they make decisions when they face ethical challenges. This dissertation is a qualitative grounded theory research with the focus on …
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Professional Ethics, Decision-Making, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Exploration of Teacher Preparation Programs and Practice
… and perceived value of professional ethics, ethical decision-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration in teacher preparation programs throughout the U.S. These factors were addressed using the Ethics Training and Curriculum Survey (ETCS). Participants for the ETCS included teacher …
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The honest thief: a qualitative study exploring the ethics of clandestine intelligence collection in a statutory environment
… of the techniques they use to make sense of the ethically questionable tasks they are required to undertake within the legal framework of the institution of intelligence. The researcher argued that intelligence practitioners may use some of the neutralization techniques found in criminological …
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Designing game ethics : a pervasive game adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo
… How can I design a game that engages players in ethical gameplay? For this project, I used multiple methodologies--research through design, background research, iterative game design, playtesting, and player interviews--to explore strategies that game designers might use to accomplish goals that …
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The ethics of graduate planning students: how they stand against those of professional planners
This thesis compares graduate planning students' ethical views with those of practitioners. It examines the ethical attitudes of graduate planning students about their roles as planners and also about various substantive issues. Students' responses to a survey are compared to practitioners' …
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Ethical decision making by managers: a policy capturing approach
… to determine whether participants would make ethical/ unethical decisions in the face of various dilemmas. 3 factors were systematically varied throughout 32 different scenarios: accountability, deception, and profitability. A personality variable, locus of control was also explored for its …
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Who Acts? Self-Identity and Moral Courage in Nursing
… who work in critical care face a unique array of ethical decisions in the course of their practice. This study aimed to examine the source of the ethical decision making of individual nurses using a virtue ethics framework as a starting point. The design used a philosophical hermeneutic approach …
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Perceptions of graduates of four doctoral programs in adult education concerning ethical decision making
… curriculum in adult education that deals with ethical practice. Nor is there evidence indicating what graduate students learn about ethics in their professional studies.Purposes of this study were to identify: (a) the extent to which university graduates, at the doctoral level, in adult …
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Moral Development in Pilot Populations
<p>Ethical issues are becoming more commonplace in society today and while most industries are taking steps to improve poor ethical decisions through ethics education, aviation is lagging behind in both understanding of ethical issues inherent to the industry and ethics education. In this study …
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Raising Robots to be Good: a practical interpretation, framework and methodology for developing moral machines
… machines the capacity for them to make their own ethical decisions. These recent attempts have raised a significant amount of attention, largely owing to their failure. Where Machine Ethics can be described as the pursuit to create machines with the capacity to make moral decisions, this thesis …
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Balancing Risk and Rights : The Constitutional validity of Premium Discrimination in Life Insurance
… premium discrimination can be legally and ethically justified. Premium discrimination in insurance law refers to the practice of charging higher premiums to individuals or groups based on characteristics such as age, gender, health status, or occupation. Insurance companies typically use …
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The Effects of Automation Transparency and Ethical Outcomes on User Trust and Blame Towards Fully Autonomous Vehicles
… vehicles and humans when making identical moral decisions.</p> <p>It was expected that trust would be highest for utilitarian outcomes and blame would be highest for non-utilitarian outcomes. When the vehicle provided information about its decision, trust and blame were expected to increase. …
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Behind closed pages : how gatekeeping shapes student journalists' new values
… gatekeepers who influence editorial decisions; (3) restrictive environments undermine students' ethical development, while autonomous ones encourage confidence and critical inquiry. These findings suggest that students who experience editorial freedom are more likely to engage in …
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Social and Emotional Learning: An Argument for Religious Pluralism
… to demonstrate morally appropriate actions and ethical decisions, which I am calling "right behavior."</p><p>It is my argument that one's understanding of right behavior embodies both implicit and explicit moral beliefs based on one's worldview which reflects a certain conception of the good …
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Changing the corporate mind : a Buddhist perspective on business morality
… political pressure on business to behave more ethically while, at the same time, continuing to run their affairs profitably in an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. Part One first looks at the evidence for this growing interest and at the nature of the `business ethics …
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The digital classification of “unknown maker(s)” of cultural objects: A case study of Iziko South African National Gallery
… repeatedly faced with difficult curatorial and ethical decisions when it comes to classifying cultural objects. As a result, the problems encountered with the digitsation and cataloguing of cultural objects are extensive. Inaccurate classification processes, including the use of the term …
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A program evaluation of the character education program at a junior high school in Saint Louis County
… human beings capable of making moral and ethical decisions in an ever-increasing immoral and unethical world (Lickona, 1996; Riley, 2001). The purpose of this program evaluation is to examine how association between student-to-student and student-to-teacher, which includes fighting and …
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