The ethical principles of Autonomy

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You have been assigned the case of a 98-year-old woman who was recently admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia. She has a history of cardiac disease and takes a number of medications. She had been fairly active until the past few days when her cough worsened and the fever developed. You note that her pulse has become weak and threat-like and that her reps are increasingly labored. The patient is now too weak to respond to you. When you mention to the family that you may need to call the physician and even take heroic life-saving measures.

The PT’s son and daughter become distraught, saying that they do not want their mother to be kept alive on machines. They report that they have discussed the situation with their mother. You find that her wishes have not been documented in her chart. The family members have not discussed this situation with the pts family physician. What actions would you consider taking at this moment? Take into account the ethical principles of Autonomy and Beneficence and the idea of futile care. What are your personal values about interventions at the end of life?

Baseline Personnel Security Standard

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What does the literature say is the usefulness, importance, and purpose of a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) assessment?

Were there any value conflicts between you, the agency, and the client?

Conscious use of self is a critical aspect of professional social work skills. Referring to the professional literature, discuss your understanding of this concept and how you are developing this skill.

Speak about your experience of learning about your practice with your field instructor. What have you learned about yourself? About how you consciously use yourself? How does this process with your field instructor relate to your own developing relationships with your clients?

Please add some content from a process recording that demonstrates your conscious use of self during the engagement/assessment process with a client.

What have you learned about ourself through becoming more conscious of how you use yourself?

What goals did you and the client identify? Are these consistent with the client’s needs and the agency’s services?

Were there referrals and linkages that had to be made to accommodate the client’s needs? Was the client part of the process of identifying and setting goals? If not, why and with whom did you develop goals?

How might the outcome of the work be affected by client participation or lack of participation in the goal-setting stage? Were there any ethical dilemmas for you in the goal-setting process? Please integrate the professional literature into your response.

Provide a conclusion that ties the assignment together—do not simply reiterate what you did—and be thoughtful in your concluding statements.

Primary care medical practices

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You work as a community health social worker serving a group of primary care medical practices. Laura, 22, is a new mother who has been referred to you by one of the local GPs. She has presented to the GP as lonely and ‘not coping’. The GP does not believe Laura is depressed, but instead feels she is challenged by her new role as a mother.

She also wants to give up smoking. Laura lives in a cottage on a farm 20km out of town with her partner, Dave, and her 3-month-old daughter, Chloe. The farm belongs to Dave’s father, who farms the property and lives close by. Dave works in town during the day. You make an appointment with Laura to see her at home.

When speaking to her on the phone,  you get the impression that Laura is pleased to be able to talk to someone about her situation. uIn pairs, note down your responses to the following:

What types of information do you need to find out from Laura about her situation?

How might the environment in which Laura lives impact upon her at this point in time?

Developmentally: what are some of the life-stage factors that Laura and Dave are facing?

uMaiden & Egan (2016, pg150)

Islamic management principles

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In Islamic management principles, every citizen has the right to prosecute a leader who deviated from Islamic guidance. Tl’F 19. Culture is the collective programming of the mind, which T I F distinguishes the members of one human group from another. 20. The public servant should be aware of the importance of T . I’ F values in public administration so that it can eliminate the “non—performing public sector & quote; issue. 21. The structure of the Malaysian government is characterized by T . I’ F unitary system and the Westminster model. 22. Reporting is not a generic management tool. T .r’ F 23. Luther Gullick emphasized in scientific management that T I F would lead to ‘one best way’ to carry out an operation. 24. Public organization belongs to private ownership. T I F 25. The Twelve Pillars was introduced by the Malaysian T .l F government to strengthen ethical values among public servants.

The harmony and synergy

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You are the HR Manager for ABC IT Consulting. Your CEO is convinced that the firm’s current “quality improvement” strategy is best achieved by recruiting a mostly homogeneous workforce to achieve the harmony and synergy needed in key team-based problem-solving processes and decision-making. Using concepts, make an argument to convince them that this is not necessarily a wise idea.

Federal laws and ethical principles

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A 12-year-old has been stealing from his mom’s marijuana stash and getting high every day after school. He knows that his grades are failing in school as a result, but is struggling not to smoke with a regular supply of marijuana in the home. He is seeking your help without parental consent, but his mom finds out one day and demands that you stop seeing her son, because she fears that there might be legal consequences for the marijuana in the home. The client wants you to continue working with him despite his mom’s wishes.

How do the state and federal laws and ethical principles guide your decision-making process in this scenario? Will you continue to see the client? Or not? Specifically, using the 8-step decision-making model, how do you come to this conclusion?

The current versions of the codes of ethics

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Changing demographics have mandated that counselling and its resulting ethical practices be expanded to consider people and situations across various diversities and cultures.

The current versions of the codes of ethics and standards of practice place a substantial emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity.

The applicability and effectiveness of these principles are based upon the critical analysis, self-reflection, and self-monitoring by the individuals who are bound by them.

This expectation allows us to maintain an ethically realistic and sound profession in which no harm is done.

Review what the codes of ethics have to say about this topic and incorporate this into your discussions:

  • Review the concepts of providing services across diversity/cultures and discuss how counsellors should respond appropriately to the specific needs of these clients through ethical interventions.
  • In their articles, the authors address potential legal and ethical implications of lawsuits that have been brought when counsellors and counselling students have used their religious beliefs as the basis for refusing to counsel lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual clients.

What are your thoughts about the implications of these cases?

Do you think it is ever ethically appropriate for a counsellor to refer potential clients on the basis of sexual orientation?

Why or why not?

How might the values you hold either help or hinder you in working effectively in the area of sexual orientation?

 

Herlihy, B., Hermann, M. A., & Greden, L. R. (2014). Legal and ethical implications of using religious beliefs as the basis for refusing to counsel certain clients. Journal of Counseling & Development, 92(2), 148-153. https://discovery.ebsco.com/c/4ax45t/viewer/pdf/pxzk4ctw3b
Hermann, M. A., & Herlihy, B. R. (2006). Legal and Ethical Implications of Refusing to Counsel Homosexual Clients. Journal of Counseling & Development, 84(4), 414-418.  https://discovery.ebsco.com/c/4ax45t/viewer/pdf/2c7c6iepqf

 

Commentary: The cases illustrate ethical and legal issues related to value imposition and conflict of values between counsellor and client.

The authors, using outdated terminology, emphasize the importance of counsellors developing nonjudgmental and accepting attitudes, regardless of their value system, and paying tribute to its history.

Words like “homosexual” and “homosexuality” remind the extent to which the language of diverse populations has changed.

In the academic world, we should engage and perform discussions based on the historical context and decide how to approach the topic today, considering previous research and articles (Dr. Jack Olszewski – PSYC6203 Course Lead).

 

Response: Offering counselling services to individuals from various origins and cultures involves wide and complex ethical ramifications (CCPA, 2021). Counsellors who deal with people from different racial and cultural backgrounds must be mindful of the moral and legal implications of their job.

This involves contemplating the potential moral and legal fallout from litigation brought about by counsellors and counselling students who declined to consult LGBTQ+ clients on the grounds of their religious views.

Due to one’s own religious beliefs, refusing to give counselling to LGBTQ+ clients might have major ethical and legal ramifications (Hermann et al., 2006).

 

The rules of conduct and code of ethics place a strong emphasis on the ideals of multiculturalism and diversity (CCPA, 2020).

The guiding principles of these rules come from the self-reflection, self-evaluation, and self-awareness of those who are subject to them.

These moral principles provide assurance that the client won’t suffer damage and that the counsellor is providing them with services that are suitable for their culture (Herlihy et al., 2014).

Counsellors are required under the codes to act morally and professionally, maintain and defend the client’s rights, and behave themselves in a professional and upstanding way.

 

Question for you: “What are your thoughts about being culturally informed versus those who may not be able to hide their bias and should refer out for the well-being of the client?”

Methods of public human resource management

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Assignment Five requires you to thoroughly read chapter five and briefly with clear examples the questions below:

Please answer the questions exactly as I numbered them (1 to 8) to avoid grading errors. 

  1. Organizations often-times assess potential employees’ ethical compass to ensure that they hire individuals who are best fit for the organization. Identify and briefly explain the assessment technique organizations use in this case.
  2. In some instances, even though organizations employ necessary safeguards during their policy formulation process to alleviate any adverse effect of policy on protected groups, sometimes, they inadvertently do so. Identify and briefly explain this legal perspective.
  3. The laws in the US mostly forbid employment discrimination, however, there are circumstances in which organizations can lawfully discriminate against an individual.   Identify and briefly explain the concept that is involved in this process.
  4. This measurement technique basically assesses the dependability and steadiness of an employment process. Identify and briefly explain the concept.
  5. This employment and selection technique involves biographical information, official interviews, and psychological assessment. Identify and briefly explain this technique.
  6. Organizations often-times merge centralized and decentralized methods of public human resource management. Identify and briefly explain the method organizations usually employ.
  7. Workplaces often-times evaluate likely employees’ reasoning and intellectual capabilities of the job using various academic techniques. Identify and briefly explain the evaluation technique.
  8. Although it is infrequent these days, however, some organizations would deliberately and purposefully formulate rules and regulations that unfairly affect a certain protected group of people. Identify and briefly explain this legal principle.

The composition of the labor market

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Discuss three major trends in the composition of the labor market and their impact on HR practices. Use examples from current news stories to support your answer. Identify and describe several key activities required for managing cultural diversity, and to what degree HR professionals believe these activities are beneficial in maintaining a competitive advantage. Use current events to support your answer. Imagine you were going to start your own business. Which aspects of human resource management would you entrust to specialists, and which would you do in-house? Why? How can human resource management assist in an organization’s efforts to operate facilities in a foreign country? What Internet applications might you use for meeting these challenges?

Changing business global environment

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COVID-19 became the accelerator for something that we should have done a few years ago. The irony is that the changes had already started to happen, and we were starting to catch up. Pandemic or not, external forces were already accelerating the need to set a clear learning strategy for the business. Refer to a case study in general plus outsourced other information to fully describe the changing business global environment and how it may impact businesses or organizations. Also, suggest and elaborate ways of how businesses can respond to such changing dynamics. Discuss fully how Coca-Cola responded in this case. [50]