Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

Is Affirmative Action Ethical?             According to LaFollette (2007), affirmative action is the practice of giving favorable consideration to women in hiring and minorities in school placements.  Affirmative action is in one way or another a form of discriminatory act and unethical.  Tiatorio (n.d.) stated that ethical behavior in its purest form is a balance between self-interest and group responsibility, predominantly a behavior learned to stand in contradiction to an instinct.  Ethics are the standards of right and wrong that are described as what humans are obliged to do when it comes to the obligations, rights, and benefits to fairness and/or specific virtues (Claire et al., n.d.).              President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 10925 and Executive Order 11246 that mandated a “non-discriminatory policies in regards to race religion, gender and country of origin (Dotigney, 2018).  I believe that the original purpose of affirma

According to Yukl, (2012), Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree on the ways to accomplish objectives and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to achieve shared goals (p. 7).  To be able to analyze and assess the effectiveness of and different approaches to leadership, it is of the utmost importance to discuss various ways of how leadership is defined.  Yukl (2012) indicated that leadership has many modes of denotation for different individuals. Therefore behavioral scientists and practitioners believe that leadership is a vital phenomenon that can be defined in various ways.  Many organizations, may it be a not-for-profit, private businesses or governmental, benefit greatly when their workforce can collaborate to achieve organizational goals and have the capacity to get to know each other and understand how to work cohesively.  Different studies conducted by psychologists indicated that an individual’s ethical behavior is

Theories of Ethics Claire et al. (n.d.) defined ethics as the standards of right and wrong that are defined as what humans are obliged to do when it comes to the obligations, rights, and benefits to fairness and/or specific virtues.  They further stated that it also refers to the development of one’s ethical standards, i.e., feelings, social norms, or attributes.  The way I see it, ethics is our moral beliefs that conform to the way we live and the way we create our world through the choices we make every day and most specifically, it is the epicenter of our existence. Different studies conducted by psychologists indicated that an individual’s ethical behavior is impacted by an individual’s moral judgment and perception (Andre and Velasquez, n.d.).  Tiatorio (n.d.) stated that ethical conduct in its purest form is a balance between self-interest and group responsibility, predominantly a behavior learned to stand in contradiction to an instinct.  Telling the Truth Shamir and E

The Train Dilemma: When no Choice is a Good One!             Velasquez et al. (n.d.) referred ethics to two things.  First, is that ethics pertains to a rational standard between right and wrong that requires what human beings need to do regarding obligations, fairness, rights, or specific virtues.  Ethical standards are the standards that impose on humans to avoid and negate from committing murder, slander, rape, physical and verbal assault, etc.  Second, ethics appertains to the development of an individual’s standards of ethics where one’s feelings, social norms, and laws can diverge from decisions or actions that are morally ethical.  It is of importance that we consistently and continuously put the effort in studying and be mindful of our moral conduct and beliefs ensuring that we are a part of a society that helps shape and live up to the standards (Velazques et al., n.d.) that are logical, rational, and well-grounded.             The Creative Education Foundation (2016) def