BILL DANIELS CASE STUDY

BILL DANIELS CASE STUDY

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Ethical traditions is a collection of things that people decide to be either right or wrong. This is

usually about judgments and rational thinking observed from a long time and deduced as either

right or wrong. Bill Daniels regarded as a highly ethical individual in the business world, used

ethical traditions such as honesty, integrity and the concise to help others when deciding to pay

for his bankrupt clients.

Bill Daniels used a combination of all the three approaches in coming up with the decisions to

pay for his client. He used both relationship based ethics tradition, virtue based tradition and

rules based tradition. He also used duty ethics, to clear insurance claims because he had earlier

assured his clients that it was his mandate to pay. He applied relationship based and went

beyond his legal obligations to maintain a good relationship. He applied a virtue based

relationship because of the urge to maintain the status quo of being a virtues person. He

applied a rules based tradition because he had to follow the strictly stipulated rules.

The factors could motivate someone to develop higher levels of moral reasoning include

punishment and obedience. The need to avoid hefty punishments makes people yearn to stick

to the moral regulations stipulated by authorities and the society as a whole. The need to come
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across as obedient and law abiding is also a factor that motivates the development of higher

levels of moral reasoning. The social demand of novelty achieved through a good reputation of

coming across as responsible is also a good motivator of ethics development. Another factor

that motivates someone to develop higher levels of moral reasoning is interpersonal

conformity. This is one yearning to gain approval of others. Universal ethics principles is also a

factor to develop higher levels of moral reasoning because the social standards universally set

are to be abided to.

A person who demonstrates principle based ethics possess qualities such as honesty. Keeps

promises, is trustworthy, loyal, fair has deep and genuine concern for others among others.

Through personal interactions with such a person, their actions reflect a highly developed moral

reasoning such as being honorable and uptight in all their dealings. They deal with transparency

at all levels of multi-level interaction, do not practice selective omissions as well as speaking

partial lies or half-truths. They are candid and not offer excuses as an avenue to escape from

their responsibilities as well as do not make promises they cannot keep.

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References

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Brackenridge, C. (2015). Practical social work ethics: complex dilemmas within applied social

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