ADR processes: Connections between purpose, values, ethics and justice

The Relation between Organizational Values and Organizational Ethics

The present paper has attended to two prevalent concepts in todaychr('39')s management literature–organizational values and organizational ethics; two concepts that are used interchangeably. The aim of this study is clarifying the real for and against positions regarding these two concepts. The study is an exploratory one and in terms of purpose, it is an applied study. In terms of equivalent, ...

Justice and medical ethics.

Justice, in the sense of fair adjudication between conflicting claims, is held to be relevant to a wide range of issues in medical ethics. Several differing concepts of justice are briefly described, including Aristotle's formal principle of justice, libertarian theories, utilitarian theories, Marxist theories, the theory of John Rawls, and the view--held, for example, by W.D. Ross--that justi...

Justice and Ethics

Utilitarianism is an ethical system. John Stuart Mill’s use of Utilitarianism to determine what is just and what is injustice may seem natural, but I will argue that the relationship between justice and ethics and the role that Utilitarianism might play in the development of ideas of justice is more complicated than it initially appears. Despite these difficulties, Utilitarianism’s consequentia...

Shen's Processes on Finslerian Connections

Between beneficence and justice: the ethics of stewardship in medicine.

In an era of rapidly rising health care costs, physicians and policymakers are searching for new and effective ways to contain health care spending without sacrificing the quality of services provided. These proposals are increasingly articulated in terms of an ethical duty of stewardship. The duty of stewardship in medicine, however, is not at present well understood, and it is frequently conf...