LAS 432 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION 1 Technology, Morality, and Ethics This week, we will explore the concept of ethical thought. As your lecture points out, there are many different ethical arguments, but two large groups of thought are deontological (largely associated with the work of Immanuel Kant) and telelogical ethics (largely associated with John Stuart Mill). The first believes that we should judge our ethics based on the idea of universal understandings. For example, it is logical that all persons do not wish to be harmed, so ethically we can establish a principle based on this. So, under this line of thought, if it is ethically wrong to harm a person, then the death penalty must be ethically wrong, because it violates this principle. If you follow this ethical approach, all ethical questions must be evaluated in accordance to these universal principles. In contrast, telelogical ethics, which utilizes utilitarian thought, looks to the outcome of the action and weighs if it is good based on its impact on the majority. For example, in considering the idea of the death penalty again, one must weigh whether utilizing the death penalty benefits the majority of the population. If the majority is helped, then the action is viewed as ethically sound; if the majority is hurt, it is not. In understanding these thoughts and approaches, what do you think about cloning? Is there a universal thought it may violate? Or can it be considered as good for a majority? What are your thoughts, and what are the different questions that can be raised behind them? What are some of the ethical challenges presented by pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS) and savior siblings?

HMGT 495 Week 1 • General Rules for Discussions • Comply with customary rules of online etiquette • Do not repeat thoughts already posted by a classmate or your faculty member. Repetitive comments may be deleted and not count toward your participation grade. • Do not get off topic • Relate your posts to the course content • No word count maximum or minimum, brevity is appreciated • Do not upload a document in a discussion thread • If referring to a link, please embed it in your post, don’t expect your classmates or faculty to copy/paste the link to see it Topic: Question 1) What resources can you use as a health care manager to stay up-to-date in your field? Describe these. Question 2) In what ways can you, as a manager, contribute to the management and execution of your organization’s strategic plan? Question 3) Locate two or three health care organization mission statements online. Provide URLs to the statements. Then, determine whether the organizations are achieving their goals. Explain how. The following questions may help you: What is the organization’s mission? Who are the customers/target market(s)? Does the organization fulfill its mission? Does it fulfill the needs of its target customers/market(s)? How do we know that the organization does or does not fulfill its mission? Is there quantitative data from which we can draw? Are there qualitative outcomes? Question 4) Who is ultimately responsible for the strategic planning of an organization’s operations