Green vs. Green Environmentalists vs. Corporations in the 1990s It is a sad fact, that the word "green" means different things to different people. For some, "green" is the color of leaves, and of grass, and of hillsides and forests. It is the symb Continue Reading...
Hazards on the Hudson Imagine, if you will, a sunny day. A boy and his father are fishing on the beautiful waters of the Hudson River. Excitedly, the boy yells, "I got a fish! I got a fish!" He reels it in and his father removes the hook from its mo Continue Reading...
Stakeholder Ethics This report covers stakeholder ethics, how the topic is defined and how companies should handle the same in a way that satisfies the right people and disregards others that are not reputable and/or reasonable. While a general set Continue Reading...
Literature Review, Analysis and Discussion 7,500 words This section presents a review of the recent relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning environmental sustainability in general and how environmental sustainability initiatives Continue Reading...
Ethical Considerations for the Use of Technology to Meet Selected Homeland Security Objectives Introduction The Digital Age has transformed the way the world works for better or worse. Technology exists to bring down nations’ infrastructures wi Continue Reading...
Ethical issues have a particular resonance in American society at the present time, given the perceived failure of many of our public institutions to live up to the ethical standards they espouse and considering the consequences diminishing of public Continue Reading...
The concept of moral disobedience occupies a vital place in the discourse of ethical philosophy and civic action. This form of disobedience is an act of noncompliance with laws, directives, or societal norms predicated on individual or collective mor Continue Reading...
Ethics There are many factors that go into creating a code of ethics for an organization. At its simplest, a code of ethics should be a "collection of principles and practices that a business believes in and aims to live by (Spiro, 2010). The code s Continue Reading...
Ethics and Technology How did this issue make me feel? Knowing the human disaster that the Bhopal case caused, and reading the supervisor's comments made me angry. "We got along just fine before the regulators ran wild," Adam Baines said. "A few gal Continue Reading...
Ethics and Leadership Failures: The Enron Case Gibney's 2005 documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room reveals some of the main ethical weaknesses in an unbridled neoliberal capitalist market system. Barely addressing environmental and s Continue Reading...
Ethics Case Study This report presents an analysis of the ethical challenges faced by two organizations -- one in the not-for-profit sector named Susan G. Komen for the Cure and one in the for-profit sector named The Lubrizol Corporation. A brief ba Continue Reading...
Ethics, Human Resources, Management Discuss the ethical issues that need to be considered when you (1) design a research project, (2) collect data, and (3) analyze and report data. When a research project is designed, data is collected, and then th Continue Reading...
Law and Ethics in the Business Environment RIGHT FROM WRONG Business Ethics and the Law Business law fixes the minimum standards of behavior for businesses (Bramble, 2013). Enforcing these laws generally consists of fines involved in the exercise Continue Reading...
If the leaders of our national financial institutions had asked 'are these moral actions right, ethically speaking, from the point-of-view of my profession' rather than 'will these moral actions make money,' the world financial crisis would never ha Continue Reading...
Ethical and Moral Issues in Business A situation or problem requires an organization or a person to choose between some alternatives. These are evaluated as ethical (right) or unethical (wrong). Involvement of a difference of belief is a moral issue Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Focus on Merrill Lynch According to Laura Hartman and her co-writer, Joe Desjardins in the work entitled "Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility" philosophical ethics may be clearly differ Continue Reading...
S. minimum wage standards. As the above scenarios illustrate, it is impossible to rely upon a single moral theory when developing a corporate code of ethics. This is because each individual brings his or her own personal perspective about ethics, so Continue Reading...
d.). When a company deals with its purchasing in unethical ways, it cannot suppose its suppliers to be trustable associates and guarantee business continuity. If one doesn't align with something, they shouldn't expect others to do it either. This we Continue Reading...
Utilitarianism is most often used by healthcare organizations like insurance companies: to keep costs down for the many, a potentially valuable treatment may be denied to the individual because it is deemed experimental or unnecessarily costly. As u Continue Reading...
Social work played a role in these processes in different ways, based on the existing perception about women and femininity. The profession itself has a range of ideological origins. Some people suggest that it is a continuance of the benevolent an Continue Reading...
Business ethics is a division of ethics that pertains to the interaction of business and ethics and applies ethical analysis to the business area. It is both expressive and normal. The five activities within business ethics can be delineated as fol Continue Reading...
Determining this could be difficult and time consuming. It is nonetheless a necessary step towards successful and sustainable market entry. A culture whose values are, for example, alienated by a marketing campaign is likely to be alienated and will Continue Reading...
Having a code of conduct that is actively implemented must seem like the most visible way to regain that trust and reinstall a semblance of corporate ethical behavior. However, in the true spirit of inquiry, we should evaluate whether or not the gra Continue Reading...
Business Ethics magazine recently awarded the Chroma Technology Corporation, a Vermont-based manufacturer of high-tech optical lens products, the "Living Economy Award" as part of the 16th Annual Business Ethics Awards. The Living Economy Award is of Continue Reading...
Premeaux's investigation into ethics and business behavior resulted in four categories that can lead to ethical problems: a) coercion and control (the use of threats or extortion to force a manager to make a certain decision); b) conflict of intere Continue Reading...
business people study ethics. What are the possible benefits to companies, individuals, society and the world of business? According to a gallop poll administered by the Better Business Bureau in 2008, consumer trust in business professionals is on Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Reflection Prompt #1 Summarize three of the ethical theories that are explained in Chapter 1 of Introduction to Business Ethics. Explain how people running businesses would construct their companies if they utilized these ethical th Continue Reading...
Werhane & Doering (1997) point out that it is virtually impossible to operate in a totally objective research environment. All researchers have a degree of bias. The goal is to minimize that bias as a variable in empirical research. Focusing on Continue Reading...
Without this duty to take car of one another, government and society would have no reason to exist. Because man is a social creature, it seems reasonable that society is meant to exist, but that society will only be stable as long as everyone in it Continue Reading...
Ethical Problems in Business PRINCIPLE: Ethics may be termed as the inner guiding moral principles, values and beliefs people use to indicate and identify what is acceptable and appropriate behavior whilst straying away from the opposite (Jones, 20 Continue Reading...
The human causes of global warming are less certain than the eventual depletion of fossil fuels, but the damages predicted to result from uncontrolled warming brought on by fossil fuels are so great that the gamble becomes too great. Only the same i Continue Reading...
Benedictine Values as Compared to Ethics Principles Many different sets of ethics are used throughout the world and within different organizations, but there are a few foundational principles upon which most of those are based. Early in the Christi Continue Reading...
Medical Ethics Ethics is a topic that is nearly as old as the human race. Ethics is sometimes referred to a branch of philosophy called moral philosophy. Ethics is often conceptualized as a code or a system meant to categorize or otherwise classify Continue Reading...
Those discretionary areas include sales and negotiating. These are open to flexibility, argument, discussion -- all within boundaries. The boundaries that fence them in are the non-discretionary functions of the business, those areas where the lines Continue Reading...
Research Ethics It is important when conducting research that the researcher adheres to a strong set of ethical guidelines. Ethics ensure that the research is conducted without causing harm to any person. While modern research ethics began with the Continue Reading...
Code of Ethics "the time is always right to do what is right" (Martin Luther King, Jr.) "The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings" (Albert Schweitzer). This paper presents a code of ethics for the Continue Reading...
