Public Relations Dilemma at the Harristown Hospital and Health System--Case...
This ethics case looks at a situation in which a public relations officer faces an ethical dilemma of being loyal to his hospital employers who are engaging in unethical conduct,and his responsibility...
View ArticlePreface and Acknowledgments--"Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations"
This is the Preface and Acknowledgments of the book, "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations."
View ArticleChapter 2 of "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations--Introduction to Nonprofit...
This is Chapter 2 of the textbook, "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations." It focuses on practical ethical issues that are faced by typical nonprofit organizations.
View ArticleEthics Alive! A Text in the Night
As the use of cell phones, e-mail, texting, social networking, and other technology grows, social workers are facing many challenges about the appropriate use and limits on use of such technologies....
View ArticleChapter 2 of "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations--Introduction to Nonprofit...
This is Chapter 2 of the textbook, "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations." It focuses on practical ethical issues that are faced by typical nonprofit organizations.
View ArticleChapter 1 of "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations"
This is Chapter 1 of the textbook, "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations." It focuses on introducing the topic of ethics generally, providing a brief history, and details some of the most popular ethical...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #113: Progressive Education Project
This scenario considers the ethics of an organization that finances its operations by paying student canvasser fundraisers based on their productivity, and taking a percentage of what they raise to pay...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #114: National Association of Biology Teachers
This scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization having an investment policy that could result in investments that conflict with the values of the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #112: Protect Our Animals of Harristown
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for an organization to deceptively infiltrate a business that it considers to be engaging in unethical treatment of animals for the purpose of...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #115: Piperville Community Hospital
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a hospital that engages in unrelated business activities that compete with local small businesses, regardless of whether the institution pays taxes on such...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #117: Harristown Homeless Shelter
This ethics scenario focuses on whether a board member has the right, or should have the right, to have access to the credit card records of a staff member.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #120: West Mountain Heights Nursing Home
This scenario focuses on whether it is ethical to engage in personal activities during work hours when the activity could be conceivably justified as having some connection to the ability of the worker...
View ArticleEthics Scenario 119: Hookman School
119. Oliver is the Vice President of Development for the Hookman School, a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that provides K-8 instruction to students with hearing disabilities. The facility...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #116: Harristown Community College
This ethics scenario focuses on whether it is ethical for an instructor to require his or her students to purchase that instructor's textbook.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #111: Harristown Youth Soccer Booster Club
This ethics scenario considers the ethics and legality of permitting youth to raise funds for a nonprofit organization and offset the individual fees they might otherwise pay for the organization's...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #110: Feed the Big Blue Marble Foundation
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) to bribe local government officials when doing so is the only way to provide emergency...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #109: Fund for a Vibrant Harristown
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for an organization that receives a pledge for a large donation to sue the donor when that donor decides not to provide that donation.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #108: Men's Health Project
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a nonprofit organization to sell its mailing list to a for-profit fundraising organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #107: Harristown United Way
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a newly hired CEO of a charity to receive salary that takes into account a particular amount that CEO is expected to contribute to the charity...
View ArticleEthics Scenario 106: Harristown Bicycle Club
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for the director of a bicycle race raising funds for a nonprofit to lie to a reporter to cover up the fact that the winner of the bike race...
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