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The bottom line for many - in terms of moral obligation - is the fact that Americans rely on their government to: a) protect them from attacks from terrorists (which the government did not to prior to the attacks on 9/11); b) spend their tax money Continue Reading...
This riff thus separates one's personal ethics from the ethics that govern their actions at work. Therefore, when one is faced with an ethical dilemma in the workplace, they can easily approach it from a non-ethical point-of-view, which in turn lead Continue Reading...
Discouraging office romances will not eliminate such concerns entirely, because people also form strong friendships at work, and such friendships can lead to suspicions of some kind of unfair application of privileges, promotions, salary, or resourc Continue Reading...
Personal and Business Ethics
Relationship of Personal and Business Ethics
Ethics is an umbrella term with a vast number of definitions, at a high level ethics can be described as a set of rules, moral values, or principles that one follows. Two of Continue Reading...
Organization Behavior
Business Ethics in an International Environment
Business Be constrained
To what extent should a business be constrained by the moral norms of a society?
A business organization does not exist with the sole purpose of maximiz Continue Reading...
Ironically, the single most important thing a university could do might be to suspend all forms of grading by the traditional test methods. Even without cheating, the focus on grades only encourages studying to perform on test instead of learning f Continue Reading...
Business Ethics: China and Mexico
This work in writing will discuss the business ethics in view of countries that are foreign to one another and specifically the countries of Russia and China and Mexico. This work will contrast and compare the busi Continue Reading...
In addition, individuals have ethical decisions when it comes to whistleblowing, because very often, when they bring attention to a problem or concern within an organization, they pay the ultimate price - they lose their jobs, or lose the respect o Continue Reading...
Employees are being rewarded for their honesty, and managers continue to encourage communication between supervisors and subordinates. Management is also looking for ways to encourage employees to tell the truth about other employees who may be invo Continue Reading...
An example of this can be seen with the Gray Matter Ethics Game at Lockheed Martin. This is a simulation that will take the employee through a host of ethical situations that they could be facing. Where, employees and managers will be able to learn Continue Reading...
Business Ethics: On Getting to the Heart of the Matter," Paul Camenisch proposes a redefinition business ethics by redefining business itself. According to the author, business is commonly described in terms of the provision of goods and services pl Continue Reading...
Corporate Accountability
The corporate scandals of the last fifteen years have brought the issue of corporate accountability to new light, adopting at times a center-stage discussion. When the Bernie Madoff scandal broke, many professionals turned Continue Reading...
Hypothesis Five
In the fifth hypothesis of measuring the business ethics levels of Taiwanese ITPs the Null and Alternative Hypotheses are defined as follows:
H0: In the ethical climate of independence, the business ethics level of Taiwanese ITP's Continue Reading...
ethics and morality. Provide specific examples for each. In your comparison, include a description of the connection between ethics and morality.
Ethical systems, such as utilitarianism or libertarianism, are formal ethical systems that are explici Continue Reading...
Business Ethics and Positive Social Change: The Ford Pinto Fiasco
How much is a human life worth? Most people would likely agree that human lives are priceless, but the executives at Ford Motor Company made this type of grisly calculation when they w Continue Reading...
Introduction
Is it true that the "bottom line" of a business is profit and profit alone? Perhaps it is for some companies, but the idea of the “triple bottom line” has been around for quite some time—and it refers no Continue Reading...
This is a most important question today, for it is sometimes said that the pursuit of profit ought not to be the primary and dominant goal of a business firm but rather must be balanced by concern for customers, employees, or society. In order to se Continue Reading...
If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be respected -- the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions, to private property, and to economic initiative (Them Continue Reading...
Ethics and Human Resource Management
As society progressed out of the 19th century - an era when two-thirds of all women were illiterate -- women embarked on a mass migration that would see them out of their kitchens and into the workplace (Thompso Continue Reading...
Crisis Management in VW’s ‘Dieselgate’ Scandal
Trust is the most important factor in the success of any organization. This trust extends to all levels of stakeholders. If customers feel that they cannot trust the company for any rea Continue Reading...
ethics and moral fiber have been tested. One of the more salient examples which comes to mind and which I believe is emblematic of my propensity for learning about and conducting business in contemporary society occurred when I was a junior in high Continue Reading...
Reflection on HobbesIntroductionIn The Misery of the Natural Condition of Mankind Hobbes begins by arguing that equality exists among men in spite of physical and intellectual differences. He states that even the weakest can conspire to kill the stro Continue Reading...
Global Risks
Climate change is something affecting all countries, with particular relevance to low-lying coastal regions. Island nations in the Indian Ocean, for example, and the dozens of nations in the Caribbean are at risk of inundation not just f Continue Reading...
Graduate Studies
Books
The proper end reference for the book is a follows:
Sims, R. R. (2002). Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning. N.p.: Greenwood Publishing Group.
The title of Chapter 8 is as follows:
"Practical Approaches to Tea Continue Reading...
Ethics and Morality: Utilitarianism, Deontology, And Rights Ethics Principles
Dramatized Example of Utilitarianism
At some point in the popular investigative TV show 24, Jack Bauer, an influential counterterrorism officer, questions terrorist Syed Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices
Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices Since Sep 11, 2001
The incident of 9/11 made the world pass though many sad and undesirable changes. One of such changes is declining rate of ethic Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
The Pinto gas tank vulnerability situation in the 1960s and 1970s was an embarrassment for the Ford Motor Company but moreover, it was a defining moment in a corporate decision-making process that was highly unethical and hence, in h Continue Reading...
The Case of the Million Dollar Decision
Pegasus International Inc Company faces a moral dilemma concerning whether it should expand in a new country, China, where bribery and ‘dirty services’ in businesses have been normalized. Despite t Continue Reading...
Ethics
LC1: Contribution Margin and Break-Even Point
The contribution margin is the difference between a company's sales and its variable costs (Peavler, 2014). It measures a company's ability to maintain its variable costs at low levels. In other Continue Reading...
Ethical Responsibility of Corporate America
Many organizations strive to increase their profit margins by doing everything possible (including unethical practices) to increase their revenues. Nevertheless, the past three decades have seen some organ Continue Reading...
Ethics
Lauren is faced with a choice between letting a substandard product go through, which would require her to lie, and reporting, it above her supervisors' heads, which would damage her relationship with those supervisors. As there is no outcome Continue Reading...
Environmental Issues, Business Ethics
Background history on business ethics
The term "business ethics" has contexts in different ways making the history of business ethics vary according to how one perceives the subject. The history is likely to va Continue Reading...
business ethics in the 21st century. Business ethics are under increased scrutiny today, and companies like Enron and WorldCom redefine corporate business ethics, lack of ethics, and their punishments when greed prevails over ethics. Business ethics Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
A corporate ethics officer is a relatively new position in terms of modern corporate structure. However, in an age of such ethical uncertainty, this position is becoming more necessary than ever thought of. Overall, the ethics offic Continue Reading...
In addition, the researchers found
that on three of the four dimensions, the salespeople were ethical in their
conduct, including the use of moral reasoning in the service of both
prospects and customers. The only dimension to not test statistically Continue Reading...
Unethical 'Best Practices'
Corporate Governance Case Study: Enron
Enron, the seventh-largest American corporation, collapsed in December 2001 in what most people refer to as the 'New Economy's first major failure'. Following its collapse, Congressi Continue Reading...
Breaking the definition of business ethics into individual ethics and organizational ethics helps provide an optimal definition. As an individual one must be able to look at him and be comfortable with their conscience. Further an individual must hav Continue Reading...
Corporation Ethical Role
Foundations business ethics: What role business society? The study business ethics study legal application moral standards business decisions. In defining business ethics, defining voluntary role business: a business behave Continue Reading...