Moral Rights Model Concept (Ethic)
Moral Rights Model is an ethic model for
the decision taking that evaluates the decisions and behaviors, by its
compatibility with the fundamental rights such as the right to life,
freedom, health and privacy of the person o r group. According to this
model, decisions and behaviors should respect 6 moral rights, namely:
. Life and Safety: the organization
members, clients and public in general, have the right to not have their
lives in danger;
. Transparency: the organization members,
clients and public in general, have the right to not be intentionally
misled in the information that is transmitted to them;
. Privacy: all citizens have the right to
control the access and the use of their personal information either by
the governmental organizations, either by the employers and others;
. Conscious freedom: all citizens have the
right to refuse obedience to orders that violate their religious and
moral beliefs;
. Expression freedom: all members of the
organization and others have the right to criticize ethic or the
employers’ actions legally.
. Private property: legal systems of most
countries recognize the individual right of private property.
Translated from Portuguese
by Susana Saraiva, Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese translation
specialist. Contact: spams@sapo.pt.
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