conflict of interest is at the core of nearly every ethical dilemma. A conflict of interest, simply put, is a situation in which the decision maker has two or more competing interests. Market timing, late trading, insider trading, illegal trading, f Continue Reading...
illegal to buy and sell securities, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust or confidence, while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security (Insider Trading). This includes tipping such information, secu Continue Reading...
Business Forms One of the most important decisions for entrepreneurs is determining the most suitable form of business ownership when setting up a business. For Adam and Laura who are seeking to establish a pet grooming shop named Dazzling Doggies D Continue Reading...
legal risk arising from wrongful discharge. What liability and rights do NewCorp and Pat have in this situation? What legal principles -- such as statutory or case law -- support those liabilities and rights? When it comes to the first scenario, i Continue Reading...
Ethical actions within organizations have attracted increased attention and concerns in the past few years because of recent incidents of unethical behaviors by management of some leading corporations across the globe. These incidents have in turn co Continue Reading...
Multinational Corporations In many powerful nations with whom U.S. corporations would like to do business (such as Mexico, India, and China) the price of bribery is factored into the everyday costs of doing business. There are profound cultural diff Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Agency The American legal system is very systematic and works amazingly well. It's complicated given its intricacy as its framework is argumentative. The Supreme Court sometimes changes the law as it holds that authority. The Suprem Continue Reading...
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to Continue Reading...
Entrepreneurship What is a founders' agreement? Describe the purpose of a buyback clause and why it's important. A founder's agreement is the 'founding' agreement of a corporation and defines the "the roles and responsibilities of the founding team Continue Reading...
legal issues should Heimusic be thinking about? Choice of Laws Heimusic is a UK-based website, however it does not limit the use of its website to only UK citizens. The Heimusic website can be accessed by anyone in the world through the Internet a Continue Reading...
Ethics of Employee Location Monitoring In the contemporary workplace, workers are usually aware that their computer activity, email, and phone conversations may be -- and probably are -- being monitored by their employer. Efforts to limit the consu Continue Reading...
Copyright Infringement & the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 This paper looks into the issues of copyright infringement and circumvention of technology with reference to Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The author of thi Continue Reading...
In such situations, "especially if the comments have been made repeatedly" the employer may not be able to fire the employee at will. This seems to be the case with Joe, given the statements he received from his supervisors (Nolo, 2010). In the futu Continue Reading...
HOW EARLY EFFORTSAT DEVELOPINGA COUNTERINTELLIGENCEPROGRAMINTHE 1950s AND 1960s INFLUENCED CURRENT USCOUNTERINTELLIGENCE POLICIESA Master ThesisSubmitted to the FacultyofAmerican Public University SystembyAlexgardo OrriolaIn Partial Fulfillment of th Continue Reading...
Ethical Review of ICE This final report will be a review of the non-profit or governmental agency of the author's choosing. The report will explore the two higher-end topics of ethics and social justice. When it comes to those two topics, there is o Continue Reading...
open today than they have ever been before. While it is a little sad that some states remain set against fully offering the choice of marriage to all who would love another person, regardless of gender, an increasing number of states have become suf Continue Reading...
Ethics In "After 'I'll Break You in Half,' Grimm Apologizes," Wheaton and Santora address the ramifications of ethical misconduct in the workplace. The issues addressed in this article pertain directly to the chapter on ethics in practice. The artic Continue Reading...
Ethics There are basically two choices that Chris has. The first is that Chris can increase the allowance for bad debts to account for the possibility that Ender will not be able to pay its obligations. The second choice is that Chris can choose not Continue Reading...
Ethics The Nike ethical dilemma The Nike Company is undoubtedly ne of the most established companies with a strong brand across the globe. It has a big name a wide coverage across the globe hence by 2007 it was estimated to have employed 30,000 peo 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...
company having strong ethics across the entire organization, including ethical leadership, training & codes, and an ethical culture. The first and most important thing is that the company needs to have ethical leadership in place. People within Continue Reading...
Wikileaks Ethics issues raised by the conduct of the American government in dealing with Wikileaks and Assange The behavior of the American government towards Wikileaks raises serious ethical issues related to government intimidation of the private Continue Reading...
Accounting Ethics The Dilemma The dilemma that Dan faces juxtaposes his loyalty to what are portrayed as his company's interests and to what are his own interests. Dan knows that the company is overstating the value of the property and that Oliver Continue Reading...
International Business Management AccuForm Corporate Corruption Case Analysis Establishing a subsidiary in a foreign nation poses many challenges. Corporate leadership challenges can often be the most daunting to resolve. One a most challenging lea Continue Reading...
Carr's argument also addresses the limits of the range of unethical business conduct. Specifically, many unethical business practices do not necessarily involve deception, per se. The case of "legally" selling car keys to car thieves is an example Continue Reading...
ethics of business regarding computer technology. The writer focuses on the issue of email privacy and whether employers have the right to read and act on private email sent by employees from their workstations. The writer explores both sides of the Continue Reading...
Ethics and Morals Measures of validating morals and ethics Comment by Sabina: Measures of Validating Morals and Ethics Ethics and morals are essential parts of our society. We rely on members of our society to practice and provide service with an Continue Reading...
From all facts and appearances, those Enron executives gave lip service to ethics, then went on their own way, making as much profit as they could while the company teetered on collapse. One final example from Enron's "Code of Ethics" is titled "Tw Continue Reading...
This social impetus is directly observable behind the Freedom of Information Act, and encouraging or validating the client company's desires by engaging in the purposeful degradation of an efficiently functioning information system would denigrate t Continue Reading...
other values Moral character, that is, having courage, being persistent, dismissing distractions and so on in pursuit of the goal. These are attempts to define ethics by describing actions, and fairly specific constellations of actions at that. Fr Continue Reading...
2. Is it ethical to send an attractive employee to a bar to "hang out" with a competitive employee in the hopes of getting information? Again, this is quite dependent upon the situation. If one "assigns" the attractive employee to participate in es Continue Reading...
Gender discrimination is a business pitfall that could result in hazardous, time-consuming, and expensive lawsuits. Today, businesses and managers need to be fully aware of the legal implications of perceived differences between how employees are tre Continue Reading...
medical field is one that is populated with professionals whom non-medical individuals do not think about every day; yet these professionals profoundly affect the care received and in many cases the life or death of an individual being treated by th Continue Reading...
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Ethics Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: How this affects U.S. business interests overseas Simply because United States corporations do business in nations with different ethical standards does not mean that U.S. compani Continue Reading...
If Liz is supportive of the CDC plan, she has a greater duty to disclose her situation to the Committee. If Liz cannot make a full-faith effort on behalf of the Committee because of her concerns about her employment, she must disclose her concerns t Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Ethics In the U.S. legal system, magistrates have been given tremendous amounts of power. This is because they play a central role in reducing the workloads for the courts. In a number of cases, they can work on special assignments Continue Reading...
It is not up to man to determine who lives or dies, it is God's choice and to kill is to try and play God. The basics of natural law are buried in what is called a conscious. What is moral and pure and good is acceptable as natural law. The Americ Continue Reading...
