This article explores the individual, situational, and system roles influencing the 2011 incident in which a small unit of US Marine scout snipers urinated on three Taliban corpses. Without absolving individual responsibility, the authors emphasize a strong command climate is the most important influence behind ethical and professional behavior. I the waning days of 2011, the leaders of 3d Batt...

Climate policies have stochastic consequences that involve a great number of generations. This calls for evaluating social risk (what kind of societies will future people be born into) rather than individual risk (what will happen to people during their own lifetimes). As a response we propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU...

In this paper, we argue that the professional engineering institutions ought to develop a Declaration of Climate Action. Climate change is a serious global problem, and the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from industries that are enabled by engineers and represented by the engineering professional institutions. If the professional institutions take seriously the claim that a professio...

Background: The purpose of this study is to design a model for managing the ethical and professional attitude of employees in government organizations. Method: The present research method is a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) research. In the qualitative part, the strategy used was the Foundationchr('39')s data theory (Grand Theory). The statistical population consisted of university professor...

Business ethics has been cited as one of the hospitality industry’s most important issues by many practitioners and academics. Yet, further study on business in industry advised. The purpose this was to evaluate relationship among ethical leadership, climate, service-oriented OCBs. It investigated whether or not leadership climate a substantial impact OCBs, an Asian country such Philippines. cu...

The ethical review of research on human beings, and indeed the ethical review of broader ranges of human activity, is a growth industry. I want to look here at the ethical review of research on humans and raise some questions about the direction it is taking. I am pessimistic about where the institutions that we have set up are leading us and I want to sound a warning note and suggest some chan...

Health research initiatives worldwide are growing in scope and complexity, particularly as they move into the developing world. Expanding health research activity in low- and middle-income countries has resulted in a commensurate rise in the need for sound ethical review structures and functions in the form of Research Ethics Committees (RECs). The urgent need for continued capacity development...