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“I confirm that my writing in this submission is original and has not violated any policies under section ‘4. Instructor Policies’ (i.e., plagiarism, teamwork, “just” paraphrasing, and the use of AI-generated content) in our syllabus.” Explain why you would be a good fit for your top 3 branch selections: As I strive to achieve one of my top 3 branch preferences, I discover that my talents and skills resonate with my branch preferences. My 6 years of enlisted service in the medical field can offer a wealth of leadership that correlate with being an Army Officer. My exceptional communication and detail-oriented skills make me an ideal candidate, as these skills are paramount for the Medical Service branch. Serving in a medical treatment facility and field hospital throughout my Army service, I bring a wealth of expertise in medical operations. My spatial intelligence skills and mental toughness will be invaluable assets to the Aviation branch, ensuring safe and efficient operations in challenging environments. I can contribute my communication skills and perceptive abilities into the Quartermaster branch, where these attributes are essential for logistical success. It is my best interest that the talents and attributes I possess are suited for service among my top 3 branches. I will improve my innovation skills by practicing brainstorming while collaborating with others for ideas, this can also help with improving problem-solving skills. To enhance my logical/analytical skills, I will engage in more problem-solving situations to enhance my critical thinking abilities. I will improve on my process discipline skills by adhering to structured approaches and procedures. Being a prudent risk-taker involves assessing potential outcomes, therefore I can improve on weighing the costs and benefits when considering the outcomes. Some of the experiences that helped me identify my strongest points are my time as an NCO in the Army. I had the opportunity to lead Soldiers and was able to see my strongest talents as a leader. I have been told by my subordinates and peers that I have great interpersonal skills because I work very well with others and I know how to talk to people. When I was working in the pharmacy in Ft. Sill, I had more people who rather speak to me about issues than other leaders because I was able to understand what was being said while providing a positive and useful response. My communication skills facilitated operations to run more effectively by ensuring clarity and coherence, enabling everyone to grasp the mission effectively. While working in a field hospital unit, my spatial intelligence has efficiently organized pharmaceutical inventory while optimizing the layout for pharmacy operations. I am very detailed-focused while executing the mission to ensure all tasks are completed effectively CHAPTER 1 Ethical values - Those properties of life that contribute to human well-being and a life well lived. Ethical values would include such things as happiness, respect, dignity, integrity, freedom, companionship, and health.

- Being idea of how we act and how we live our lives - We choose our own ethical values Ethics – which refers to those values, norms, beliefs, and expectations that determine how people within a culture live and act. Ethics steps back from such standards for how people do act, and reflects on the standards by which people should live and act. At its most basic level, ethics is concerned with how we act and how we live our lives. Ethics involves what is perhaps the most monumental question any human being can ask - It is a practical way of having to do or how we do or how act to choose to do things - How we act, choose, and do things as whole Ethical norms – Ideas and reasonings behind why people do certain things or act in a certain way - Could be religious reasons, cultural or just because it has how they always done things - Those norms can be different depending on where someone lives, where they work, who their friends are, the neighborhood they live in, or what kind of church they go to. Personal integrity – The term integrity connotes completeness of a being or thing. Personal integrity, therefore, refers to individuals’ completeness within themselves, often derived from the consistency or alignment of actions with deeply held beliefs. - do the right thing when no one is looking - Honest, ethical, and moral Risk assessment – A process to identify potential events that may affect the entity, and manage risk to be within its risk appetite, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of entity objectives - Identifying the risk about the chose we are about to make - when someone is offering something without giving information (making it risky) too much risk Stakeholders – In a general sense, a stakeholder is anyone who can be affected by decisions made within a business. More specifically, stakeholders are considered to be those people who are necessary for the functioning of a business - Anyone who will be affected - Anybody impacted by a decison Social Ethics - The area of ethics that is concerned with how we should live together with others and how social organizations ought to be structured. Social ethics involves questions of political, economic, civic, and cultural norms aimed at promoting human well-being - what is socially ethical for our ethics, what are we values, humanity, the way we treat each other in outside world

Values - Those beliefs that incline us to act or to choose in one way rather than another. We can recognize many different types of values: financial, religious, legal, historical, nutritional, political, scientific, and aesthetic. Ethical values serve the ends of human well-being in impartial, rather than personal or selfish, ways - do we care and think about who made our clothes and the meat we eat, etc. Practical Reasoning - Involves reasoning about what one ought to do, contrasted with theoretical reasoning, which is concerned with what one ought to believe. Ethics is a part of practical reason - what should we do, practical is logical, ideally we shouldn’t be breaking someones car - what we ought to do Theoretical Reasoning – Involves reasoning that is aimed at establishing truth and therefore at what we ought to believe. Contrast with practical reasoning, which aims at determining what is reasonable for us to do - what we ought to believe CHAPTER 2 Change blindness – A decision-making omission that occurs when decision makers fail to notice gradual changes over time - When you don’t notice a change because you see them everyday versus if you see someone once a year, you’ll notice a bigger difference. Ethical decision-making process – Requires a persuasive and rational justification for a decision. Rational justifications are developed through a logical process of decision making that gives proper attention to such things as facts, alternative perspectives, consequences to all stakeholders, and ethical principles - identifying facts, issues, stakeholders, alternatives actions, law/principles, virtue ethics, make a decision Inattentional blindness – If we happen to focus on or are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding details, no matter how obvious - something that distracts us and we get diverted, or if someone is pushing you to do things you might not want to do. Some people may have unethical motives. Making someone sign something, such as harassment. Moral imagination - When one is facing an ethical decision, the ability to envision various alternative choices, consequences, resolutions, benefits, and harms

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- thinking outside the normal scope of the box - Normative Myopia – The tendency to ignore, or the lack of the ability to recognize, ethical issues in decision making - short-sides about your values while not realizing that it is unethical and wrong. Doing something and the person does not realize they are wrong - When a kid is stealing but not realizing that they are wrong - Cant notice it is an unethical issue - Stealing all the pizza not realizing it is wrong CHAPTER 3 Ethical Frameworks Utilitarianism – An ethical theory that tells us that we can determine the ethical significance of any action by looking to the consequences of that act. Utilitarianism is typically identified with the policy of “maximizing the overall good” or, in a slightly different version, of producing “the greatest good for the greatest number - actions based on the greater or good Principle based (human rights and legal rights ) - A framework for ethics that grounds decision making in fundamental principles such as justice, liberty, autonomy, and fairness. Principle-based ethics typically assert that individual rights and duties are fundamental and thus can also be referred to as a rights-based or dutybased (deontological) approach to ethics. Often distinguished from consequentialist frameworks, which determine ethical decisions based on the consequences of our acts. - When other countries are treating people like dirt to make them work and money, how humans are being treated. - Talking more about the law of violating human rights Virtue ethics – An approach to ethics that studies the character traits or habits that constitute a good human life, a life worth living. The virtues provide answers to the basic ethical question “What kind of person should I be? - showing your integrity and exemplify your character, showing what kind of person you are CHAPTER 4

Code of conduct - A set of behavioral guidelines and expectations that govern all members of a business firm. - Being a statement integrated into a corporation that’s the foundation of internal and external stakeholders, how we are treating people, what are we doing. Compliance-based culture – A corporate culture in which obedience to laws and regulations is the prevailing model for ethical behavior - Obedience to the rules - Responsibility to ethics - Being compliance with rules, actually following the rules Corporate culture – - Robins class there are norms. We are respectful to eachother and everybody has a say. Professor is not a dictator when on the podium. In most institutions some professors see themselves as high/mighty compared to the students. The culture in the classroom is NOT like that. Ethics audit – - Ethical auditors, people who come in and check everything is ethical - Checks and balance - Third-party company to check Ethics officers – Individuals within an organization charged with managerial oversight of ethical compliance and enforcement within the organization - People who are designated (internal more than likely and sometimes externally) who come in to determine right or wrong Ethics hotlines - Federal sentencing guidelines for organizations – Developed by the United States Sentencing Commission and implemented in 1991, originally as mandatory parameters for judges to use during organizational sentencing cases. By connecting punishment to prior business practices, the guidelines establish legal norms for ethical business behavior. However, since a 2005 Supreme Court decision, the FSG are now considered to be discretionary in nature and offer some specifics for organizations about ways to mitigate eventual fines and sentences by integrating bona fide ethics and compliance programs throughout their organizations - They came on because people were doing wrong things, such as CEOs, companies, etc Mission statement – A formal summary statement that describes the goals, values, and institutional aim of an organization -

United states sentencing commission – An independent agency in the United States judiciary created in 1984 to regulate sentencing policy in the federal court system. - help make ethical sound judgements in the federal court system, to enforce ethics - made sure people were held accountable Value-based culture – A corporate culture in which conformity to a statement of values and principles rather than simple obedience to laws and regulations is the prevailing model for ethical behavior - when stores are closed on Sundays due to their beliefs such as church Sundays or Sundays are rest days Whistleblowing – A practice in which an individual within an organization reports organizational wrongdoing to the public or to others in position of authority - when someone finally calls out someone or company when they were doing wrong CHAPTER 5 Corporate social responsibility – The responsibilities that businesses have to the societies within which they operate. In various contexts, it may also refer to the voluntary actions that companies undertake to address economic, social, and environmental impacts of their business operations and the concerns of their principal stakeholders. The European Commission defines CSR as “a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better society and a cleaner environment.” Specifically, CSR suggests that a business identify its stakeholder groups and incorporate its needs and values within its strategic and operational decision-making process - giving back to local community - It is expected socially although we do not HAVE to - It speaks volume for the corporate Economic model of CSR – Limits a firm’s social responsibility to the minimal economic responsibility of producing goods and services and maximizing profits within the law - When the company is more concerned with MONEY - They do not care about ethics, they just make sure their money is being made Stakeholder model of CSR – The view that business exists within a web of social relationships. The stakeholder model views business as a citizen of the society in which it operates and, like all members of a society, business must conform to the normal range of ethical duties and obligations that all citizens face. - They about foundation Integrative model of CSR (true non-profits) – For some business firms, social responsibility is fully integrated with the firm’s mission or strategic plan

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- cares the most about social, about their mission, and social impact. They do not care about making money QUESTIONS Which of the following best describes a business stakeholder? - Only the minority shareholders in a business entity? - Only those who have acquired significant shares in a firm - Anyone who audits a firm - Anyone who affects or is affected by decisions made within a firm Speaking on a cellphone while driving, and as a result, missing a highway turn-off by mistake is an example of: - Normative Myopia - Inattentional Blindness *** - Descriptive Ignorance - Change Blindness Utilitarian’s would object to child labor as a matter of principle? True or False What is the difference between a principle-based framework and a utilitarian based framework? - Ethics of principles is based on self-interest, whereas utilitarianism is based on human rights. - Ethics of principles is based on Human rights, whereas utilitarianism is based on self- interest. - Ethics of principles is based on Rules, whereas utilitarianism is based on consequences.

- Ethics of principles is based on consequences, whereas utilitarianism is based on rules. Which of the following is true about value-based cultures? - They emphasize obedience to the rules as the primary responsibility of ethics - They are only as strong and as precise as the rules with which workers are expected to comply - They reflect the traditional approach of classifying corporate culture - These cultures are perceived to be more flexible and far-sighted corporate environments A firm that balances its social goals against economic goals by putting social mission first, is said to follow the: - Integrative model of CSR - Economic model of CSR - Social Web model of CSR - Stakeholder model of CSR The Philin product model of CSR is the closest model associated with - Philanthropy - Kitchen area: cracking between 2 dry wall sheets, texture bubble. 51% 7/12/23 17years old

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