SUBDOMAIN 310.2 - ETHICS Competency 310.2.1: Ethical Issues in Business Company Q has recently closed two of their stores in areas that are considered high crime areas. This company was claiming they were losing money. Failing to listen to customer request for more natural and organic products has forced them to shop in areas outside of their community. Company Q also needs to work with the local food banks with donating day old products. With all of these situations at hand and with the question
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Gender differences are biologically constructed. We are born either as male or female. Without going any further these statements appear normal and one can take the view that this is the general assumption. What then is sex? Is there a difference between sex and gender? Distinctions between sex and gender have been made by social scientists from the feminist movement of 1970’s‚ when feminists argued that the traditional views of masculinity and femininity often led to the disempowerment of women
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There are many reasons to have ethical practices in a business; your employees would essentially do whatever that wanted‚ without any regard for punishment. This is why most companies have policies and procedures that are in place to keep employees focused and accountable. First‚ sexual harassment/harassment in the work-place‚ rules have been set in place to keep this from happening‚ and to be able to hold the harasser accountable for their actions. Secondly‚ code of conduct‚ the way you dress may
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Discuss and illustrate the classifications of ethical issues discussed in the text. According to the textbook‚ Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases‚ an ethical issue is “a problem‚ situation‚ or opportunity that requires an individual‚ group‚ or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong‚ ethical or unethical” (Ferrell 65). There are fifteen basic classifications of ethical issues in business that can be broken down into three categories
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Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN : 2249-4626 & Print ISSN: 0975-5896 Evaluation of Rural Water Supply Schemes in Selected Communities in Oke-Ogun Area‚ Oyo State‚ Nigeria By Toyobo A.E.‚Tanimowo N.B Akintola University of Technology‚ Ogbomoso‚Oyo State‚ Nigeria Abstract - The study examine water supply schemes in selected communities in Oke-Ogun area. Data were collected through primary and secondary sources. A total of 450 structure questionnaire were administered
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ahead of ethical behavior. This is exactly what happened at Enron. Enron had a program called “rank and yank.” In the “rank and yank” process your performance is evaluated yearly and if you are ranked the 15-20 percent lowest ranking employees you are let go or encouraged to seek other employment with a different company. This encouraged employees to report false profits in order to make themselves look better. Enron also gave away luxurious cars to their top performing employees which made it
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disadvantages to the business face when they try to behave in an ethical way? With the development of the global economy‚ business companies are facing many business challenges in the age full of competition. And business challenges will produce some different values‚ such as child labor‚ human rights‚ hours and wages and environmental laws (Luminita and Constantin‚2006). Therefore‚ business companies need to pay more attention to the business ethics. What is more‚ ethical business is study of
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rationalizations for continuing the unethical process or downplaying its severity. Accordingly‚ the senior management may accept continuing the wrong process on the belief that the activity is within reasonable ethical and legal limits arguing that organizations that experience such light ethical conflicts have been surviving for many years Her co/workers despite the fact that they know that what is happening is not fair for the customer thy may undermine the unethical process in order to remain
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Assignment: Ethical and Socially Responsive Business Instructor: Prof. JOHN KELL Introduction to Business BUS 100 Suleyman Sal Denden March 16‚ 2014 Describe key areas of the selected company’s code of conduct that are of significant importance to the business‚ and explain why. The first question we should ask ourselves “what is ethics?” I think ethics are a collection of principles and practices that a business
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2. Ethical Issues in Business. It seems that every day in the news we are hearing of new company that has acted at least unethically and possibly illegally in the operation and financial reporting of their company’s business dealings. There are many ethical issues in business. One major issue that we see is over and under reporting net income. Companies like to show that every quarter the net income of the business has an increase or profit. In order to show this they adopt unethical or illegal
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