Week six Learning Objectives Summarize potential ethical risks in business by recognizing relevant issues, performing environmental scanning, and identifying reliable resources for uncovering future misconduct risks. Analyze how trends in the economic, geopolitical, social, and technological environment lead to ethical issues in business. Evaluate how emerging ethical issues affect the ethics and compliance function in an organization. Starting this week we will review: Future ethical considerations Medical Tourism – a current and future ethical concern Week six Introduction Ethical issues of the future Ethical issues of the future economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social responsibility for managers [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/ This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title. 4 A few questions from the Millennial Project – future ethical issues Do people and organizations have a right to pollute if they can pay for it; e.g., by paying carbon taxes, pollution fines, carbon trading, etc.? Should religious or scientific views prevail in embryonic stem cell research? Should codes of ethics be created and enforced by an international agency to guide the behavior of international corporations? Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html 5 The millennial project - 1 Should national sovereignty and cultural differences be allowed to prevent international intervention designed to stop widespread male violence to women? Do we have a right to clone ourselves? Does society have a right to clone animals? What is the ethical way to intervene into any educational system that teaches hate and violence? Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html 6 The millennial project - 2 Should there be two standards for athletic, musical, and other forms of competition: one for the un-augmented and another for those whose performance has been enhanced by drugs, bionics, genetic engineering, and/or nanobots? Should information pollution (as environmental pollution is now) become a crime? Is it ethical for society to recreate extinct species? Source: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html 7 Medical Tourism – a Current and Future Ethical Concern Benefits? Ethics? “Medical tourism can come with benefits, but it also raises a serious a host of ethical and legal questions.” (Walsh, 2012) Walsh, C. (2012, October 16). The rise of medical tourism. Harvard Gazette. Retrieved from http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-rise-of-medical-tourism/ 9 Top 14 destinations http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/ Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/ 10 Procedure typ ...

1. Week six Learning Objectives
Summarize potential ethical risks in business by recognizing
relevant issues, performing environmental scanning, and
identifying reliable resources for uncovering future misconduct
risks.
Analyze how trends in the economic, geopolitical, social, and
technological environment lead to ethical issues in business.
Evaluate how emerging ethical issues affect the ethics and
compliance function in an organization.
Starting this week we will review:
Future ethical considerations
Medical Tourism – a current and future ethical concern
Week six Introduction
Ethical issues of the future
Ethical issues of the future
economic,
environmental,
geopolitical,
societal, and
technological

2. Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social
responsibility for managers [Electronic version]. Retrieved from
https://content.ashford.edu/
This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM)
title.
4
A few questions from the Millennial Project – future ethical
issues
Do people and organizations have a right to pollute if they can
pay for it; e.g., by paying carbon taxes, pollution fines, carbon
trading, etc.?
Should religious or scientific views prevail in embryonic stem
cell research?
Should codes of ethics be created and enforced by an
international agency to guide the behavior of international
corporations?
Source:
http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
5
The millennial project - 1
Should national sovereignty and cultural differences be allowed
to prevent international intervention designed to stop
widespread male violence to women?
Do we have a right to clone ourselves?

3. Does society have a right to clone animals?
What is the ethical way to intervene into any educational system
that teaches hate and violence?
Source:
http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
6
The millennial project - 2
Should there be two standards for athletic, musical, and other
forms of competition: one for the un-augmented and another for
those whose performance has been enhanced by drugs, bionics,
genetic engineering, and/or nanobots?
Should information pollution (as environmental pollution is
now) become a crime?
Is it ethical for society to recreate extinct species?
Source:
http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ethics-rd1.html
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Medical Tourism – a Current and Future Ethical Concern

4. Benefits? Ethics?
“Medical tourism can come with benefits, but it also raises a
serious a host of ethical and legal questions.” (Walsh, 2012)
Walsh, C. (2012, October 16). The rise of medical tourism.
Harvard Gazette. Retrieved from
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-rise-of-
medical-tourism/
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Top 14 destinations
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-
tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-
tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
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Procedure type and average costs
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Medical Tourism
Do you think it is ethical?
Is there a place in society for this industry?

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References
Das, R. (2014, August 19). Medical tourism gets a facelift…
and perhaps a pacemaker. Forbes. Retrieved from
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2014/08/19/medical-
tourism-gets-a-facelift-and-perhaps-a-pacemaker/
Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social
responsibility for managers [Electronic version]. Retrieved from
https://content.ashford.edu/
This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM)
title.
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Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources
Source type

6. What is it?
Examples
Best used for
Scholarly
A source written by scholars or academics in a field. The
purpose of many scholarly sources is to report on original
research or experimentation in order to make such information
available to the rest of the scholarly community. The audience
for scholarly sources is other scholars or experts in a field.
Scholarly sources include references and usually use language
that is technical or at a high reading level.
*Note: Different databases may define “scholarly” in slightly
different ways, and thus a source that is considered “scholarly”
in one database may not be considered “scholarly” in another
database. The final decision about the appropriateness of a
given source for a particular assignment is left to the instructor.
Scholarly Journals
· Journal of Management Information Systems
· American Journal of Public Health
· Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Scholarly Books (published by a university press or other high-
quality publisher)
· Shari’a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World
· The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
· The Hidden Mechanics of Exercise: Molecules That Move Us
Journal articles:
· Recent research on a topic
· Very specific topics or narrow fields of research
· NOT good for an introduction to or broad overview of a topic
Books:
· In-depth information and research on a topic
· Putting a topic into context
· Historical information on a topic

7. Peer Reviewed
A publication that has gone through an official editorial process
that involves review and approval by the author’s peers (experts
in the same subject area). Many (but not all) scholarly
publications are peer reviewed.
*Note: even though a journal is peer reviewed, some types of
articles within that journal may not be peer reviewed. These
might include editorials or book reviews.
**Note: some publications (such as some trade journals) can be
peer reviewed but not scholarly. This is not common.
See “Scholarly Journals” above
Books go through a different editorial process and are not
usually considered to be “peer reviewed”. However, they can
still be excellent scholarly sources.
See above
Credible
A source that can be trusted to contain accurate information that
is backed up by evidence or can be verified in other trusted
sources. Many types of sources can fall into this category.
*Note: The final decision about the appropriateness of a given
source for a particular assignment is left to the instructor.
See above. Also:
· Newspapers
· Magazines
· Books
· Trade journals or publications
· Government websites
· Websites from educational institutions (like universities)
· Websites or other publications from reputable organizations
(like the Mayo Clinic)
· Encyclopedias (general or subject)

8. Many websites could be considered credible. The more
information provided about the source, the more likely they are
to be credible. Look for information about the author and/or the
organization, how recently it was published, the intended
audience, the intended purpose, and whether there is evidence
of bias.
· Basic/general/background information about a topic
· Current events
· Local news
· Statistical data
· Information about specific organizations or companies (look at
the organization’s or company’s website, or look for articles in
newspapers or trade journals)
· Government information
· Information about popular culture
· Opinions or commentaries
· Topics of general interest
Ashford University Library, June 2015, CR 0130415
Question 1 – 300 words
Future Ethical Considerations
As the world continues to become more global because of
technological advances, the risks will increase. Choose one of
the global risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical,
societal, or technological. Then choose a specific issue related
to the global risk area.
· Describe the ethical issue.

9. · Evaluate how the risk could best be mitigated.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Use at least one scholarly or credible source.
· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible
Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source
types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a
specific source for a particular assignment.
Question 2 – 300 words
Global Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
A common debate in ethics is universalism versus relativism of
ethics and moral codes. A frequently asked question is “Does a
universal moral code exist regardless of an individual’s
culture?” As organizations are becoming increasingly global,
and understanding of universalism versus relativism of culture
ethics is important.
· Compare and contrast universalism and relativism.
· Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social
corporate responsibility.
Your response must be a minimum of 300 words.
Please use at least one scholarly or credible source in your
discussion.
· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible
Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source
types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a
specific source for a particular assignment.
FINAL PAPER – eight pages
Ethics, Compliance Auditing, and Emerging Issues
To prepare for this assignment, review Chapter 9 in the course

10. text, as well as the article on compliance program auditing by
Usnick and Usnick (2013). In addition, read Chapter 10 in the
course text. Review Table 10.3: Global Risks 2014, and select
one of the risk areas: economic, environmental, geopolitical,
societal, or technological.
For this assignment, imagine that you have been tasked with
creating a proposal for the new CEO of your organization. You
have been asked to create a proposal that establishes an ethics
program, as well as develop a training plan, and develop a plan
to conduct compliance auditing. Your proposal must include the
following:
· Describe an emerging global risk that is either economic,
environmental, geopolitical, societal, or technological.
· Identify all countries that might be associated with the risk.
· Describe the effects of the risk on each country.
· Evaluate the role of ethical decision-making in business
organizations as the role pertains to your global risk.
· Analyze the impact of business ethics on stakeholder
relationships.
· Analyze why it is necessary to create an ethics program,
conduct training, and engage in compliance auditing.
· Design a training plan for ethical considerations and social
responsibility as it relates to the key risk area and the countries
you have selected. The training plan must include the following:
· The goals of the training program
· The objectives of the training program
· The learning methods/activities of the training program
· How the training program will be evaluated
· Describe how the training will be conducted
· Describe how compliance auditing will be conducted.
· Summarize the key findings
The assignment:
· Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not
including the title page and references page) and and formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing

11. Center.
· Must include a separate title page with the following
· Title of paper
· Student’s name
· Course name and number
· Instructor’s name
· Date submitted
· Must use at least three scholarly and/or credible sources in
addition to the course text and the Usnick and Usnick (2013)
article.
· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible
Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source
types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor.
Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a
specific source for a particular assignment.
· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
· Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.
Required Resources
Text
Gonzalez-Padron, T. (2015). Business ethics and social
responsibility for managers[Electronic version]. Retrieved from
https://content.ashford.edu/
· Chapter 10: Looking Forward
Article
Usnick, L., & Usnick, R. (2013). Compliance program auditing:
The growing need to insure that compliance programs
themselves comply. Southern Law Journal, 23(2), 311-327.
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Articles
Andrei, C. L., Tigu, G., Dragoescu, R. M., & Sinescu, C. J.
(2014, November). Analysis of medical tourism for
cardiovascular diseases. Amfiteatru Economic, (8)16, 1136-
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the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library.
This article analyzes and cause and effect of increased medical
tourism. It will be useful in completing discussion two this
week.
Jagyasi, P. (2012). Understanding ethical issues of medical
tourism (Links to an external site.). DrPrem.com. Retrieved
from http://www.drprem.com/ueimt/understanding-ethical-
issues-of-medical-tourism.html
· This article discusses the ethical challenges of medical
tourism. It will be useful in completing discussion two this
week.