1000 Search Results for Controversial Business Practice
Plastic Surgery
Teen Plastic Surgery: A Controversial Medical Practice
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2007, more than 87,000 teenagers had cosmetic surgery; and that number has grown exponentially since. Although aestheti Continue Reading...
8 million in reduced utilities costs" (Young 56). Thus, Sun has reduced costs significantly, while keeping its workforce solidly on American soil. There are ways for smaller companies to utilize these types of solutions, as well. Flextime, telecommut Continue Reading...
Global
Three cross-cultural differences to consider if company expands into the global market basing on a selected Asian country.
Companies in developed economies are increasingly moving into the developing world searching for new customers and tal Continue Reading...
Kent's options are to go ahead with the original plans, to modify the game or to take the game to other markets where marketing it would not be considered a violation of the company's social responsibility.
Sex, violence and gambling are all contro Continue Reading...
Also people enjoying decent salaries with huge remuneration believe that their level of performance is so high that they are working on low salaries. (Vickers, 2005) at the time of the boom during the 1990s because of the unparalleled stock options, Continue Reading...
One set of concepts from each area was utilized to explain how the situation at Grand Bois may have come about. The end goal of the authors was to "provide business practitioners, ethics teachers, and readers interested in corporate conduct with ins Continue Reading...
S. But these were things that were perfectly normal and accepted in Uganda. Green needed to have a conversation with Martin and tell him what a good job that he thought he was doing and together they should have come up with some guidelines and rules Continue Reading...
A McDonald's hamburger in the United States and in the United Kingdom for example is to be sold within the same price range when the exchange rate is calculated. McDonald's has had a large amount of success in its global expansion. The reasons for t Continue Reading...
Business Plan -- Rocky Mountain Sports Fishing, LLC
Business Description
Definition of the Market
Services Offered
Organization/Management
Marketing Strategy
Financial Management
Recreational fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry in the U Continue Reading...
0 technologies ((Wirtz, Schilke, Ullrich, 2010)
Heavily reliant on a broad range of integration points throughout an enterprise, creating a real-time information network using collaboration technologies including Facebook-like applications (Salesfor Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
"the High Cost of High-Tech Foods case"
The cost of high-tech food continues to arouse debates over the ethical, moral, and practical impacts the foods have on the people, market, and economy. However, it is evident that the propone Continue Reading...
This can hurt the returns of the portfolio over the long-term.
Although legally not all information must be disclosed, should companies be obligated to disclose the true nature of investor risk? Or are investors responsible for determining such ris Continue Reading...
The treatment of the undocumented workers has legal and economic implications, but is only an issue in the political arena.
Companies that hire illegal immigrants are being socially responsible. The argument that illegals suppress wages is not base Continue Reading...
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Adamson, John. Law for Business and Personal Use. Mason: South -- Western, 2008.
Lamb, Charles. Marketing 5. Mason: Cengage -- South Western, 2011.
Simms, Mary. "What are the Different Consumer Continue Reading...
This approach has allowed Zipcar to place its vehicles strategically to maximize their availability to the very consumers who are most likely to utilize its services in every city in which it operates.
Initially, Hertz actually considered making an Continue Reading...
Business -- Annotated Bibliography
Drucker, P.E. (1994,). The theory of business. Harvard Business Review, September-October. Retrieved from http://www.mindz.com/images/Ronaldvandenhoff/file/the_theory_of_business_drucker.pdf
Credibility: Author An Continue Reading...
If children are repeatedly exposed to certain portrayals of an ethnic group, they may develop corresponding beliefs about the group" (Horgan, et. al., 2001)
Because there are very few advertisements that use the minority groups as the product endo Continue Reading...
The less direct the impact, the more likely the stakeholder is to use consequentialist considerations to just the actions of managers. For example, government did not react to the need for improved governance and pass Sarbanes-Oxley until after mult Continue Reading...
Business Law
The Differences between Civil Law and Criminal Law:
To a layman who is not familiar with the various concepts of Law, criminal Law may be more familiar because of intense interest in criminal cases that are tried in courts of law and t Continue Reading...
Business Law
The author of this report has been asked to answer regarding several different legal and/or ethic cases or questions. Those cases/situations are Wrench LLC vs. Taco Bell, California & Hawaiian Sugar Company vs. Sun Ship Inc., the ge Continue Reading...
The consequences of even a few dissatisfied customers can be enormous: "Dissatisfied customers turn to competitors; loyal customers spend more, refer new clients, and are less costly to do business with" (Arendt & Harris, 1998, p. 27). The autho Continue Reading...
Researchers have an occasion to further organizational science and to make research practical by producing information that can impact changing organizational forms and circumstances. Pragmatically, academic researchers are not likely to get access Continue Reading...
It in this manner, therefore, that mediation is preferable.
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ROLE of MEDIATOR in the INDUSTRY
Acting as a bridge between the parties, the mediator, arbitrarily, assumes either a purely facilitative role in which he restrains himself from inter Continue Reading...
When the Davis-Beacon Act was developed it was established in order to stabilize the construction industry as well as promote fair wages. The way that the Davis-Beacon act is interpreted today in regards to prevailing wages, they tend to drive the Continue Reading...
The original farm was a seasonal operation with periods of no production in the winter months. The ability to dry and produce value-added products will allow the business to smooth its income and realize revenue all year round. The new production f Continue Reading...
E-Commerce and Business Redesign
The e-banking business faces many of the same roadblocks as the rest of the retail sector, when it comes to wide spread usage and acceptance of their e-banking systems. The focus of this research will be to explore t Continue Reading...
A favorite target for conspiracists today as well as in the past, a group of European intellectuals created the Order of the Illuminati in May 1776, in Bavaria, Germany, under the leadership of Adam Weishaupt (Atkins, 2002). In this regard, Stewart Continue Reading...
According to many sources and the allegations in the class action lawsuit decided in its favor in 2001, Wal-Mart systematically discriminates against women in its management training and promotional practices; it has illegally refused to hire disab Continue Reading...
Accepting Client Assignments
Outstanding client service begins with a full understanding of the client organization, its business needs and the position to be filled. An AESC member should:
Accept only those assignments that a member is qualified Continue Reading...
Vioxx demonstrates the unethical practice perpetuated within the business community. Typically, the pharmaceutical companies often put their financial interests above the health and safety of drug users. The paper also highlighted the unethical drug Continue Reading...
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice
Debates about theory and practice are ancient. Each generation considers the dynamics that surround issues about the interdependency of theory and praxis to be uniquely challenging. Complexity is a variable closel Continue Reading...
Racism and Business Ethics
Despite a myriad of laws outlawing discrimination and protecting civil rights, racism continues to pervade all aspects of American business.
This can be seen in the pay disparity between the races, the ongoing discriminat Continue Reading...
Knowledge Integration Project
1A) Business owners must take a number of different factors into account when determining the form of business. They have to consider the sources and types of risk that the business takes, if there will be employees, an Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Leadership Strategies and Practices
Leadership Strategies and Practice
Examples and Analysis of Roles
Organizational culture
Behavioral Theory
Planning
The criminal justice leadership strategies are also partly similar to busin Continue Reading...
In Genentech, Hughes examines the remarkable rise of the Genentech company, which was an industry pioneer in the field of genetic engineering. The basic premise of Hughes’s book is that Genentech radically transformed biotechnology and even mad Continue Reading...
How Philosophy Influences Society: Starbucks and the Restroom Controversy
Introduction
When two African-American men were arrested for loitering outside a Starbucks after being refused permission to use the restroom as they were not purchasin Continue Reading...
Game Time Sporting Goods: Code of Ethics
Game Time Sporting Goods is a family owned and operated sporting goods store that has been in business for more than 25 years. It has four local outlets around the city and two main warehouses. It has more th Continue Reading...
predatory business practices seen in today's business environment. It will also analyze whether the borrower or debtor ought to bear any responsibility, in such instances.
Specific Examples of Predatory Practices by Businesses
In 1993, Wal-Mart wa Continue Reading...
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that services to foreign clients brought Americans $131 billion in 2003. This was in addition to offshore services for U.S. customers, which grew by $7 billion.
The report shows that labor-intensive producti Continue Reading...
business scandals in the early 2000s brought the issue of business ethics to the fore -- Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. The three share some similarities but they are different in other ways. Enron was simply a case of criminal activity. The company's ma Continue Reading...