The employee's imperative is bound by the employee's desire to maintain employment. To the business, however, there is a competing imperative in that it must increase profits. For the cost of a test, the business can prevent a certain degree of losses. Thus, from the businesses perspective its imperative, if applied evenly and universally, would compel it to reject testing of its executives just as much as it would compel it to promote testing of employment candidates.
Q1. Wilson acted wrongly in terms of his contractual duty to the company. In such situations, the moral imperative derives from the employment contract, including the terms of the housing allowance. Wilson defends himself on the basis on consequential arguments -- he is doing more right than wrong in his actions. Weighed on a consequential basis, Wilson is correct in that his wrong actions towards his employer have resulted in greater good for his family. The one defense he offers for the falsification, however, is ethically hollow. That such behavior is standard practice is the country meets neither the standard of the clearly delineated moral imperative nor does it meet the consequentialist standard of the greatest good. Since the falsification is the most contentious aspect of the situation, it is reasonable to conclude that Wilson acted wrongly.
He did, however, have other courses of action available. He could have turned down the opportunity to return to his homeland, thus avoiding the situation entirely. He could also have disclosed his situation...
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Academic Honesty in Nursing Profession: Annotated Bibliography Kececi, A., Bulduk, S., Oruc, D. & Celik, S. (2011). Academic Dishonesty among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Study. Nursing Ethics 18(5) 725-733 This cross-sectional, descriptive research's objective is assessment of academic dishonesty in Turkish university-level nursing students. The sample size for this research was 196 students. Data collection employed two instruments, which, on an average, could be completed in about 10 to 15 minutes: 1)
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