Ethical Behaviors of Mattel in the Toy Industry
The ethicacy of corporate behaviors are influenced by a myriad of factors yet most strongly reflect the internal culture, alignment of leadership to vision, and accumulated trade-offs made by managemen Continue Reading...
Corporate Violence
White Collar Crime
Corporations are considered fictional 'persons' under the law and they can, just like 'real' human persons, also perpetuate violence against individuals and against the community. An excellent example of this i Continue Reading...
The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) on individual chocolate packing is making it possible to know item-level inventory positions within the largest retailers for example including Wal-Mart, an early adopter of this technology (Zhou, 200 Continue Reading...
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Brocklesby advocates 'Soft OR' approaches such as Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Data Envelope Analysis, Cognitive Mapping, Soft Systems Methodology and the Theory of Constraints to allow for "conflicting objectives and multiple subjectivi Continue Reading...
Coca Cola Strategic Plan
The Coca Cola Company embodies American ingenuity and capitalism. Since its inception in 1887, Coca Cola has provided happiness and prosperity to the world. Now, 125 years later, the Coca Cola Company has over 100,000 employ Continue Reading...
Nike: From Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices
Nike
Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike.
Ethics programs are expressions of the increasin Continue Reading...
Tainted Meat
Recalls of tainted meat by government authorities
Consumers don't know when and where it's being recalled from III. The Solution -- Disclosure
The Case Against Disclosure
Why Disclosure, ethically, is the right thing to do.
"Tastes Continue Reading...
Product Recalls: Reaction
Every now and then, I will turn on the morning news and hear that there has been a product recall for something I consider vaguely absurd, such as a product that can possibly cause harm if it is misused in some extraordinar Continue Reading...
duty-based or deontological ethics will be defined and applied to Mattel Inc.'s case.
Duty-Based Ethics
Duty-based or deontological ethics deals with what individuals do, rather than the outcomes of their doings. Its key tenets are:
Do what is et Continue Reading...