ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

Ethics and Governance

Ethics and Governance

Task 1

We have a set of ideologies, values we have been discovering for a number years, we try to systematize our live after this structure, and then examine to request that border of brain to functional positions in our lives. But often we find us in a kind of inapt place because the moment we check to request our standards to this very functional inquiry in brain, we appear to the position which is not as obvious as we would want it to be, we cannot state apparently that the best likely substitute. Often, there is an alternative between good and awful answers, high-quality and bad, but perhaps good things are awful things (Lawerence, 2002, pp: 80).

You have more or less the identical scheme to transact with difficulties in government. Well, you get the position and then trial to make decision about them. You have some ideas or suppositions about what is imitating the indications. The second is founded on the notion of rights, there are certain rudimentary human privileges should be appreciated. It is not permitted to bend individual privileges in alignment to make the good in their civilization. The third is founded on the notion of fairness or equality (Goldenberg, 2010, pp: 90).

The fourth set about is founded on significant ethical assets. The inquiry is not what I manage, but what kind of humanity I would like in the expectations. How my activities will assist to that future? And then you have the widespread good, the notion that they are managing things that are identically healthy every individual in your society (Suzzane, 2010, pp: 10).

Case Study: BP Texas Refinery

A recent accident at the BP Texas refinery provides us with an example of the potential ramifications of adopting an unethical stance in negotiation. According to Laredo Morning Times (2005), despite numerous criticisms by the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of willfully violating safety rules and regulations, several fines and previous incidents which highlighted the plant's safety inadequacies, BP maintained its hard line stance on workplace safety negotiations. It was a decision which ultimately cost 15 contract workers lives (Lawerence, 2002, pp: 80).

The Texas City explosion was the eighth time this decade a fatal accident had been reported at a BP-owned plant and the third fatal accident in Texas City alone. Thus, this recent fatal accident again raises debate over the issue of 'money versus morality' and questions whether BP (given its recent poor track record, as described by Olsen (2005)) acted ethically when addressing safety concerns in negotiations with their workers (Mark, 2008, pp: 89).

According to Laredo Morning Times (2005), the problem could have occurred because BP officials might have focused too much on individual worker safety that they missed problems with overall system safety. Whilst safety statistics may have improved because more workers were avoiding minor injuries, lurking problems, such as the outmoded ventilator stack that spewed liquid and gas before igniting, had been neglected (Fagothay, 2000, pp: ...