The document discusses several topics related to globalization and ethics: 1. Ronald provides a summary of the positives and negatives of globalization, including free trade, economic growth, and cultural exchange as positives, and wealth inequality, job losses, and spread of disease as negatives. 2. Jessica discusses how globalization can positively impact developing countries through new industries and jobs, but these countries may lose autonomy. 3. Adam discusses how ethics relates to personal growth through honesty and empathy, academic growth through integrity, and professional growth through improving processes and leadership.

1. RONALD'S POST:
Explain the implications of globalization.
Everything in the world has positives and negatives,
and the same goes for globalization. Some of the positives
include free trade, global economic growth, poorer countries
have a chance to develop economically, cultures are learning
more about one another and people are becoming more tolerant
of people from other countries.
Some of the adverse effects of globalization consist of
making the rich even richer and the non-rich (such as blue-
collar, and impoverished) poorer, countries taxed for imports
for the supposed “free trade” from other countries, employees
of companies (like in the US) often face pay cut demands from
employers who threaten to export their jobs to other countries,
developed countries are losing jobs to countries who charge less
to do the job, the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-
19.
Identify at least two ethical issues that go along with the global
societal topic you have chosen for your final essay.
The topic of climate change has many ethical issues that vary
depending on the perspective of climate change at a given time.
An ethical issue or dilemma for the oil industry is the tension
between profits and CO2 emissions. According to Le Menestrel,
van den Hove, & de Bettignies (2002), "the oil industry's
business ethical dilemmaas a trade-off between a socially
detrimental process (emitting greenhouse gases, hence inducing

2. a risk of climate change) and a self-interested consequence
(profits)" (pg. 251).
Neglecting Climate change is an ethical issue, which often gets
swept under the proverbial rug, of the public’s health.
Explain how globalization contributes to or affects these ethical
dilemmas.
Globalization is trying to bring the world together by
developing poorer countries, having them do jobs cheaper, and
ramping up production in other countries because there are no
emission laws. Developing poorer countries involves
influencing their economy by providing them with jobs which
then help boost development. Once development is growing, the
economy is being filled with money, which makes those
residents even happier. That is happening with no laws in place
for emissions, wages, work hours, or public safety (such as
health). The health of people in other countries is not a factor of
globalization because if the rich are getting richer, than
everything is fine. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the
goals and points of globalization were either lost or twisted to
benefit companies, people, or organizations.
For poorer countries to grow and develop, they get help
from other countries. Helping those countries involves travel
and transportation, which costs gas and money. Both of those
things come from the gas and oil companies, which are a part of
globalization. Also, there are places that oil drilling is taking
place in other countries, such as ocean drilling, because there
are benefits to doing that in other countries (which is a part of
globalization).
Propose solutions to these ethical dilemmas that are feasible
financially, socially, and culturally.

3. The solution for the public’s health to not be ignored is for
everyone to know there will not be any harm or ignoring to
those trying to protect people from climate change due to things
like CO2 emissions. Socially I believe that letting the public
know how important and impactful climate change is on their
health is feasible since the world is trying to be healthier more
than ever before. Financially I believe there is no effect on
people becoming more aware and knowing what is going on. I
think financially, the money will promote what climate change
is and how it affects health. That would, in turn, benefit
businesses, event centers, and more. Culturally I think the
solution of letting climate change be known and how it affects
the public’s health would be feasible culturally. I do not see
anything getting in the way of the solution for any culture.
I believe a possible solution to not abiding by emission
regulations to gain more profits for oil companies could be
simple. Giving oil companies bonuses or tax exemptions for not
only following but going above and beyond the emission
regulations is a solution. That solution gives them a reason to
surpass the emission regulations, which makes people happy
and supportive of oil companies socially. It will be feasible
culturally because it continues to provide jobs to families, is
following the laws, and is keeping more people safe by reducing
emissions, which results in less climate change.
References
Le Menestrel, M., van den Hove, S., & de Bettignies, H.-C.
(2002). Processes and Consequences in
Business Ethical Dilemmas: The Oil Industry and
Climate Change.
Journal of Business Ethics
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4. 41
(3), 251.
JESSICA'S POST:
Explain the implications of globalization.
Globalization has both positive and negative effects. For
individuals, it can affect your quality of life from the food we
eat to the things we do in our day to day routine. The positive
of globalization is that it will help new industries and develop
more jobs in developing countries. The negative side is that
those pooper countries around the world will have no say and
will be forced to do whatever they are told to do.
Identify at least two ethical issues that go along with the global
societal topic you have chosen for your final essay.
Several ethical issues go along with my social topic, lack of
education, the effects of distance learning in elementary school.
The first one I have chosen to write about in my paper is the
separation of teacher and learner and having to learn as an
individual rather than a group setting. The second one I have
chosen to write about is the use of or lack of media to link the
teacher with students.
Explain how globalization contributes to or affects these ethical

5. dilemmas.
Our world is slowly transforming, and several states have
decided to switch to distant learning for the remainder of this
school year. “Globalization enhances the ability of learners to
access, assess, adapt, and apply knowledge, to think
independently to exercise appropriate judgment, and to
collaborate with others to make sense of new situations”
(Gupta, 2017). However, removing the teacher and student
from the same environment can harm a child. Each child learns
differently, and not all children work well independently and
require that one on one help.
We are breaking boundaries using technology to interact and
teach our students from home. However, “The potential fallback
of globalization in education can be the increased technological
gaps and digital divides between advanced countries and less
developed countries” (Gupta, 2017).
Propose solutions to these ethical dilemmas that are feasible
financially, socially, and culturally.
The first solution is finding ways to reach students that struggle
working in groups. Add a block during the daily schedule to
work with those students and even providing information for the
parents to assist them with distant learning.
Distant learning requires a form of technology to access your
classroom materials, whether it is blackboard or google
classroom. The solution is making sure all children have access
to the materials that are needed for distant learning. Counties
should be required to loaning out laptops and providing a

6. hotspot for the students.
Reference
Gupta, P. (2017, April 6). Impact of Globalization in Education.
Retrieved from https://edtechreview.in/news/2730-
globalization-in-education
ADAM'S POST:
Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal,
academic, and professional growth.
Ethical behavior can take on several different meanings
depending on your own set of beliefs, values, culture, and
upbringing. According to Ahmad (2013), “Ethical behavior in
general means good conduct, acting with a sense of right and
wrong, good and bad, and virtue and evil” (para. 7). So what
does that look like in terms of personal, academic, and
professional growth?
Personal
Ethical behavior on a personal level can mean many different
things: honesty, integrity, caring about others, having empathy
for others, encouraging others, and being selfless in your
actions. I personally believe in helping others in any way
possible. Because of my childhood, my personal core values
and behavior are heavily driven on making the world a better
place, one interaction at a time.

7. Academic
Academic ethical behavior carries many of the same values as
personal ethics; honesty, integrity, and encouraging others.
Additionally, completing assignments on time and in accordance
with the guidance is another form of ethical behavior (work
ethic). The biggest thing I see in this respect is plagiarism.
When I first started out at Ashford University, there was blatant
plagiarism on the discussion boards and it was extremely
frustrating. There were always a few people that were late to
post, and often simply reworded someone else’s post.
Professional
Professional ethical behavior carries all the aspects I mentioned
previously as well as striving to improve processes and
performance within your respective areas. Professional
decisions should be aimed at improving those around you, your
department, and organizational as a whole. While there are
many that would argue that you are being paid to do a job so to
expect anything more is unreasonable, but I would argue that if
you see an opportunity for improvements, it is your moral and
ethical obligation to voice that to leadership.
Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered, and
describe how the issue was resolved.
Throughout my many years in a leadership position, I have
conducted hundreds of job interviews and hiring actions. As
often occurs, someone that you know is interviewing and in a
few cases, good friends of mine. This normally goes one of two
ways, they expect to be given the job simply based on the
relationship, or there is an assumption or rumor that they are
already preselected for the position based on the relationship. I
have even had friends flat out ask me to give them preferential
treatment. I believe that a person’s character is all they really

8. have, and once that character is compromised it is tarnished for
a long time.
About a year ago, I was interviewing for a leadership position
and one of my employees was interviewing for the position. I
knew he was the right person for the job, but he also knew that I
was not going to give him the job, he had to earn it through the
interview as there were several other qualified candidates. At
the same time, there were rumors generating that he was already
selected for the position. When it came time to conduct
interviews, I removed my scores from each candidate and
allowed the other three panel members in order to remove any
perceived bias of the process. As a hiring official this is hard to
do because you want to have input as to who you are hiring, but
I knew it was the ethical thing to do so that the other candidates
knew the process was fair and equitable.
Describe how your general education courses have influenced
your ethical values.
I believe my ethical values are heavily driven by my core values
and beliefs from early in my childhood. I do however, believe
that there have been a few general education courses that have
broadened my perspective as to what ethical values embodies. I
had never really looked at it from a corporate responsibility
perspective, nor had I fully understood how in depth or involved
that could be. Now, having written several papers related to
corporate ethical behavior, ethical leadership, and societal
concerns, I have better understanding and well-rounded
knowledge base of what ethical behavior on a much bigger scale
truly means.
References
Ahmad, A. (2013). A global ethics for a globalized world.
Policy Perspectives, 10

9. (1), 63-77. https://www.jstor.org/journal/polipers
RONALD'S POST:
Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal,
academic, and professional growth.
Personal
:
To be ethical as a person to me relates to who I am and how I
behave, which means to be honest, fair, truthful, and having
acceptable moral standards. I strive to be as ethical/moral as
humanly possible, and it makes me feel good doing so.
Academically
:
Academically being ethical means to avoid cheating
(plagiarism), maintaining the policy and standards set forth for
every student and faculty member. When doing rigorous
research and being honest when writing papers or publishing
something academic
Professional Growth
:
Being ethical in the professional sense is having moral
principles that control the conduct of a single person, group, or
organization. Having ethics and maintaining those ethics is
essential in every profession. To support those ethics means to
be consistent with moral conduct all the time. For example,
treating people fairly, nicely, and with respect is ethical
conduct and should always be given during and outside of work.
Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered and

10. describe how the issue was resolved.
An ethical problem I have encountered was hiring someone to
due a job for a certain price, but the person hired did not fulfill
everything they stated would be included in the job. When he
stated he was finished I asked why he had not completed the
other tasks he said would be included in the quote he gave me
before he started. He stated he was just telling me those things
so I would be aware what I could add to the job. Unfortunately
for him I asked if everything they told me he could do would be
included in the total price because I wanted everything, and he
stated yes. When I told him this, he said he did not understand
what I was asking. I asked him to politely give me a second to
pull out my phone. I told him I have a security system that
records visual and audio any where around my house. I showed
him on my front porch and him repeating back to me everything
I asked for and telling me the total price for everything I wanted
would be a certain amount. After seeing that he started to back
track and then stopped and stated he was in the wrong. I told
him I would be happy to work out a different price for the next
time because I understand it being a mistake. He decided to go
ahead and finish what he stated he would do and when I paid
him I gave him more then what he had asked for because I
understand it being a mistake and how hard it can be running a
business alone. He stated that because I remained calm and
didn’t get mad and just spoke with him with respect and
kindness that he felt it was only right to do what he said he
would do. From that day on we have stayed in contact and he
has done work for me from that point on.
Describe how your general education courses have influenced
your ethical values.
At first, I felt that the classes did not influence my
ethical values, but, in a way, they have because they are making
me think about them and how to understand them better. I

11. believe my general education courses have given me a better
understanding of my ethics and moral reasoning. My parents
were always on me about making sure I had good ethics because
that is the only thing I can offer to prove and show what kind of
person I am. I am thankful for my parents doing that and
helping me understand the importance of ethics at such a young
age. I encourage every student to be as ethical and moral to
themselves and others as possible and why it is so important.