Ethical Dilemma Paper

Business ethics

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The first ethical dilemma involves the tutors for hire model where the tutors would offer services to write papers for a price per page, enter an online classroom taking the place of the student completing all graded assessments. This is because it violates the code of conduct for employees of TU. The code provides that tutors would never agree to do work for the student and would never encourage the student to cheat by creating materials that would be presented as the students' own work or create templates that answered assessment with little or no work by the student. The addition of the new services creates a business dilemma as it goes against the code of conduct.
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Without the code of conduct, the two dilemmas would not exist. A code of conduct is a set of rules that outline the roles and responsibilities and the proper conduct of an individual or an organization. It sets out what employees are expected or not expected to do in conducting their affairs within an organization. It is the code of conduct that stipulates that tutors should not agree to work for students or provide work that they would pass as their own without changes or with minimal changes. Without this provision in the code of conduct, the ethical dilemmas would not exist (Ford, & Richardson,

The ethical theory of Rand takes an objectivist position. She argues for self-interest, which takes an individual’s life and happiness as the highest values and one cannot exist as a servant to the interest of others. The theory provides that the achievement of happiness require rational selfishness. Accordingly, the purpose of morals is to specify what is in an individual’s self-interest and what produces happiness. Rand argues that principal values an individual should adopt are called virtues. She defines a virtue as an acquired trait that has been identified as a good policy. Some of these values include rationality, independence, integrity and justice (Hicks,