Ashford 6: – Week 5 – Final Project

Ashford 6: – Week 5 – Final ProjectIn the Week Three Assignment, you engaged in a case analysis of a current business problem using some of the components of an argumentative essay. In this written assignment, you will write a complete argumentative essay as described in Sections 9.1 and 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Foster, Hardy, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). This essay will include a revised and polished version of your Week Three Assignment, an objection to your thesis, a rebuttal, and concluding remarks. In order to benefit the most, you should start working on your Final Project from the time you receive your Week Three Assignment back with comments from your professor.Your assignment should include the following:A revision of your Week Three Case Analysis Assignment. Your revision should represent a substantial edit of your work that fully incorporates feedback from your professor and goes well beyond correcting any grammatical or APA errors.The strongest possible objection to your thesis. After the final paragraph of your Week Three Case Analysis Assignment, start a new paragraph that introduces the strongest possible objection to your thesis. The considerations for this are detailed in Section 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). Make sure to employ the appropriate language to introduce the objection, such as “some may object to my thesis as follows” or “according to [so and so] the thesis presented here fails to account for X” [whatever he or she finds problematic]. You can find other language to do this, of course, but the key point here is to make sure that you indicate that someone else is speaking when presenting this objection.It is also important to remember that you do research to discover good objections and not merely objections that are weak and thus easily rebutted. Look for peer-reviewed journal articles in the Ashford University Library, full-text articles in Google Scholar, or articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Present the opposing position fairly and in detail. This may take more than one paragraph.A rebuttal. This is a refutation of the objection that you have just presented. Start this in a new paragraph following the objection paragraph(s). Once again, follow the indications of Section 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015). You may point out an error in the objection. Or you may show that, while it is an important objection, it does not apply squarely to your argument, or does not account for facts that make it irrelevant. Above all, make sure to maintain philosophical decorum in your rebuttal. Toward this end, you should apply the principles of charity and of accuracy, first introduced in the Week One course material. See “Confronting Disagreement” in Section 9.4 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo, 2015).Closing remarks. End your argumentative essay with a paragraph of closing remarks. Provide some reflections of what you have attempted to achieve by means of your essay. You could, for example, explain how your essay sheds light on the broader controversy that it addresses. Or you could point out how your essay addresses a frequently ignored point or the unpopular side in the controversy. You could also reflect on the related matters in the broader controversy that would be useful to examine by others. Do not merely summarize what you have done in the body of your essay, and do not add new information here that would support or contradict your essay since the body of your essay should have addressed all the relevant points. See “Closing Your Essay” in Section 9.2 of With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Hardy, Foster, & Zúñiga y Postigo (2015).Requirements for your Assignment:Your assignment should be between 1500 to 1700 words in length, excluding the cover and references pages.Your examination should be both thorough and succinct. This is a combination that demands time and thought, so give yourself sufficient time to draft and revise.Your assignment should include citations, as well as a list of references. Both must be in APA form.Your references should include at least four peer-reviewed articles in addition to those that you will be carrying over from our Week Three Case Analysis Assignment. These references should be drawn from the Ashford University Library, Google Scholar, or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Your assignment should be submitted no later than the end of Monday (midnight, U.S. Mountain time).Review -Grade Detail ViewKimberli Harkless: Ashford 4 AssignmentNumeric Grade: 12.60/ 15 ptsWeighted Average (Earned/Possible):12.60 % / 15 %Letter Grade:Comments:View Waypoint markup for PHI 445 – Week 3.docx The following files have been attached to your feedback I think you’re on the right track here, but there are some things I think you could work on to improve things for your final draft. My primary recommendation going forward is that you should focus the remainder of your research on philosophers who write from the points of view of the theories you’ll want to use when engaging the topic, and who have either written explicitly about gender discrimination, or have written on topics that are relevantly similar, and apply their arguments to your paper. That will ensure that you both avoid building straw man arguments or otherwise misunderstanding how a theory is applied to real world concerns, and that you have the best arguments for the position you’re advancing available to you. It will also ensure that the pith of the paper concerns the theories and their application. It can be easy to forget that and to write a paper less about critical engagement of the theories, and more about the topic itself, and I think you did that a bit here, so it’s something you’ll want to keep in mind. Again, I think that on the whole you’re heading in the right direction here, and look forward to reading your final paper; you just need to be sure that you spend more time addressing the theories we’re studying, researching scholarly voices who advocate for those theories, apply them to the topic critically, and show why the one you prefer presents the better case.(1.76 / 2) IntroductionProficient – Provides an introduction that identifies the business case and the specific moral problem being addressed. The introduction is somewhat impartial and/or mostly articulates the economic system(s) and laws that affect the operations of the business. The introduction is somewhat unclear.(3.52 / 4) Thesis and Ethical TheoryProficient – Presents a thesis statement that describes the moral position being defended. The thesis is somewhat unclear or vague. Identifies an ethical theory, and somewhat explains how the characteristics of the ethical theory support the thesis. The explanation is somewhat unclear.(3.04 / 4) Two PremisesBasic – Presents two premises that somewhat support the thesis. Minimally discusses the ethical theory or the economic system(s) and laws that affect the operations of the business. Each premise is presented in its own paragraph. The discussion is underdeveloped.(1.76 / 2) Application AnalysisProficient – Provides an analysis that demonstrates how the chosen ethical theory supports the best moral solution to the business problem. The analysis compares the moral solutions offered by two ethical theories. The analysis is somewhat inaccurate.(0.38 / 0.5) Applied Ethics: Understanding Different Ethical Perspectives/ConceptsBasic – States and describes the major theory used.(0.5 / 0.5) Critical Thinking: Explanation of IssuesDistinguished – Clearly and comprehensively explains the issue to be considered, delivering all relevant information necessary for a full understanding.(0.44 / 0.5) Written Communication: Context of and Purpose for WritingProficient – Demonstrates sufficient application of organization and presentation of content. The purpose of the writing is, for the most part, clear and easy to understand. There are some problems with the blending of summaries, paraphrases, and quotes. Paper flows somewhat smoothly.(0.38 / 0.5) Written Communication: APA FormattingBasic – Exhibits limited knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout does not meet all APA requirements.(0.5 / 0.5) Written Communication: Word RequirementDistinguished – The length of the paper is equivalent to the required number of words.(0.32 / 0.5) Written Communication: Resource RequirementBelow Expectations – Uses an inadequate number of sources that provide little or no support for ideas. Sources used may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are not used within the body of the assignment. Citations are not formatted correctly.Running head: GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM 1Gender Discrimination and the Theory of UtilitarianismKimberli HarklessPHI 445 Personal & Organizational EthicsProf. Stephen KroghMay 9, 2016GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM2Gender Discrimination and the Theory of UtilitarianismIntroductionGender discrimination is the practices based on male and female where the rights of men,women, boys and girls are denied. These rights are like the sexual rights or even unequalpayments at work. Gender discrimination issues have been affecting females most of the time.There has been a controversy of gender discrimination of men being said to have beendiscriminated against. There are the existing stereotypes that have promoted the genderdiscrimination issues towards men and women. Economically, gender discrimination has beenaffecting the decision making processes making the society patriarchal. Decision making hasbeen sidelining how activities are carried out especially at work places. Only men have beentaking the lead in leadership denying the women who would have greater ideas to contribute inthe development process. This on the other hand has led to the unequal distribution of resourcesleading to poor economic outcome. Economy has been derailed due to the early marriages toyoung girls who have been denied schooling. Away from the women empowerment, men havebeen left out in the process of empowerment due to the stereotype that men are generally theheads of the society. Some laws that protects gender discrimination are like the like the sexdiscrimination act, the Equity Act 2010 and the federal laws[ CITATION Har14 l 1033 ].A thesisThere has been the continuation of gender discrimination despite the existence of thelaws where it has led to more de-motivation in place of work, in the society and in the world atlarge where it has affected how people interact with one another in the economic and socialarena.GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM3Ethical theoryGender discrimination can best be explained through the utilitarianism theory. It hasbeen proven that discrimination goes far beyond the minority groups and touches other groupslike the males who are not termed weak in the society. The theory of utilitarianism focuses on theoutcome of gender discrimination where it uses the greatness happiness principal in determiningthe moral of the same[ CITATION Har l 1033 ].In most cases, discrimination has been identified in the work place where it has beentaking place at every stage of employment; be it during hiring, screening, during promotions,during division of labor and the compensation schemes.Utilitarianism theory looks at discrimination as to require a manager in the premiseswhere it is practiced. Discrimination management will assist in controlling disruptions that comeabout. This enables the performance maintenance when there is the introduction of compensationthrough discrimination. Discrimination has led to loss of many developmental opportunities, lossof skilled labor and has also led to poor health especially when nurturing small kids within theexisting stereotypes. The theory of utilitarianism has also handled economic and societal impactsin the society. This has been achieved when there is discrimination in the society and those whoare discriminated against end up producing less for not being given opportunities to maximizetheir skills.In the long run, the ethical theory of utilitarianism has chipped in and assisted in thereduction of cases of discrimination in the society where both men and women have been deniedchances to have some freedom and some denied rights.Two premisesGENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM4There has been the violation of rights through discrimination. Such has led to the unequaldistribution of resources especially in the sharing of lands where boys have always been having ashare to inherit from their parents while girls are left out and do not get any share of inheritancefrom their parent’s properties.Gender discrimination has mostly been favoring men more that the women. In workplace, men have been considered to make the decisions and also to hold the highest positions inthe offices which have been a major form of discrimination[ CITATION Wil14 l 1033 ].Comparative analysisThe theory of utilitarianism has had its support on the fact that happiness is the best thingas compared to sadness. Since this theory does not entertain egoism, it has been used to bringequality in the society where men, women, boys and girls will always have equal chances in life.It has been used to stop the bad cultural practices that have been practiced towards young girls.Early marriages and female genital mutilation has been practiced to harm the women butbenefiting the men in the society. In the society, every one counts and hence it is in order to giveeveryone a chance to his or her rights.At workplace, there has been discrimination against the wages where women have beenreceiving a lesser pay than their male counterparts even in attaining equal qualification in thesame position. This has led to women becoming less motivated to peruse higher education sincethey feel that it will all be in vain for reason that even when they attain much, they will continuereceiving a lesser pay. More so, this income disparity has been stereotyped that since the malesare the sole provider in a house hold, women hence should earn less or else they will be seen tochange these stereotyped roles. Women have thus been placed in low status jobs which pays lessGENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM5income and men has been left to man the well-paying and decent jobs[ CITATION Gen14 l 1033.The existing laws have tried to eliminate the sexual harassments that have been in theworkplace which have affected the performance of the employees. These laws have worked topunish those who practice these bad habits and put in place tough fines and jail terms.The laws too have tried to regulate the policies at the work place where the women willbe given the maternity leave and get an allowance within the same period. In additional, the lawstill works to give males paternity leave when their wives deliver and also get compensatedwithin the time they will be on leave.The virtue ethics seeks to look at the internal motivation to be the outstandingconsequences of gender discrimination. It doesn’t look at neither the rules nor the consequencesof the instances of gender discrimination. This has left the theory of utilitarianism to stand out ascompared to the theory of virtue ethics since it seeks to look at handling the discriminating issuesand at least offer some solutions to the same.GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM6GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM7ReferencesCurt, L. P. (October 4, 2014). Gender/sex harrasment inclusing gender violence.Hardy, J. F. (n.d.). Strengthening the Argumentative essay. The Argumentative essay .Hardy, J. F. (2014). With Good Reason. A Guide to Critical Thinking .William, C. (2014). Gender Discrinimation in the Workplace and in Institutions. News andEvents .