CASE 46 Making Socially Responsible and Ethical Marketing Decisions: Selling Tobacco to Third World Countries Strategic decisions move a company toward its stated goals and perceived success. Strategic decisions also reflect the firm’s social responsibility and the ethical values on which such decisions are made. They reflect what is considered important and what a company wants to achieve. Mark Pastin‚ writing on the function of ethics in business decisions‚ observes: There are fundamental principles
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Ethical Perspectives Many people today are in agreement that America’s attention to ethical standards is declining. Individual ethics are being replaced by dependence on organizational ethics. Groups are depending on their organizations Code of Ethics as guidelines for ethical regulations. People need to understand the importance of personal ethics and make a commitment. The key to understanding and committing is awareness of one’s core beliefs. The Ethics awareness inventory is a profile
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Ethical Leadership plays a big role in employment relationship‚ organizations in today’s time make lots of changes and organization have to come up with new and innovative ways to cope with each change. In the article Ethical Leadership in Modern Employment Relationships the authors talk about how St. Benedict rules have a great deal on the relevance of the RSB to the modern employment relationship. The article talks about bringing individual monks closer to God and the same rules can also provide
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Confidentiality after death: Please read the case examples and answer the following questions. Example 1: After the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman (see: Hunt‚ 1999) Susan J. Forward‚ a clinical social worker who had held two sessions with Ms. Simpson in 1992‚ made unsolicited disclosures regarding her deceased former client. Ms. Forward commented in public that Ms. Simpson had allegedly reported experiencing abuse at the hands of O. J. Simpson. The California Board of Behavioral
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Legal and Ethical Considerations: Main Challenges 1. Understanding the moral risks of new technology. Millions of records on private citizens now available over the counter pose a threat to privacy. Principles of right and wrong 2. Establishing corporate ethics policies that include information systems issues. Main Social Legal and Ethical issues: 1. Privacy & personal information 2. Freedom if speech 3. Can we trust computers? 4. Intellectual property
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world to accomplish goals. Since‚ there is no general theory of ethical leadership‚ there isn’t much research or solid evidence that shows that ethical behavior produces superior "leadership results" in the long term or the short term. And as long as we define "leadership results" as success and do not monitor or analyze the underlying leadership behavior in terms of whether it was ethical or not‚ we can never show statistically that ethical behavior is a superior result producer than unethical
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Ethical Framework Fall 2007 Creating and defining my own ethical framework is essential in future success as a businessman‚ a leader‚ and a team player. As a business student‚ I have learned that it can be a very cut throat industry and in order to get ahead‚ at some point and ethical dilemma will undoubtedly be an obstacle I have to overcome. The way I handle these dilemmas can make or break my career; business ethics are a key part of earning and sustaining respect‚ trust‚ and a good rapport
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Chapter 4 & 5 Assignment By Lydia Henley Chapter 4 & 5 In chapter four‚ I particularly liked how they started off with the unethical decisions that famous politicians had made. On a side note I think it is quite obvious that all of that bad press led to John Edward’s eventual downfall in the election. I think it was ironic how the governor‚ Spitzer‚ had promised to clean up the streets but then turned and was caught on
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Ethical Perspective In the following paper I am going to describe the four different ethical perspectives. I will start by describing my own personal ethical perspective as described by the University of Phoenix Ethical Awareness Inventory. After I describe my personal ethical perspective I will evaluate all four of the ethical perspectives starting with character/virtue based. I will then continue with obligation/ deontology based and results/utilitarianism based. I will conclude with a brief description
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THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE Today’s businesses are entrenched in a great conflict. The interests of the stockholders and the interests of the populace at large seem to be in constant turmoil. On one hand‚ stockholders desire profit for themselves‚ and on the other‚ the general population does not care to be exploited by those whose sole motive is profit. This is a conflict because those who buy a business’s products tend to be in the general public‚ and they have the ability to make or break a
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