Ethical Issues and Social Responsibility Case Analysis: BP (Beyond Petroleum) Beyond Petroleum (BP)‚ one of the world’s largest energy companies has seen many highs and lows over its 100 history. Throughout BP’s 100 year history there have been numerous questions about the company’s ethical conduct. These ethical misconducts include fraud‚ environmental crimes‚ regulatory negligence‚ and the endangering of habitats (Thorne‚ D.M.‚ Ferrell‚ O.C.‚ & Ferrell‚ L.‚ 2011). With the multiple
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ETHICAL ISSUES IN FORECASTING AND DECISION ANALYSIS Dunal M. McCurdy MBA 615- Business Foundations November 24‚ 2011 ETHICAL ISSUES IN FORECASTING AND DECISION ANALYSIS It is especially important to think about the most critical causes of the problem in making your forecasts and decisions. The process of forecasting involves using observations about the problem situation to predict the outcomes of your own actions‚ the actions of others‚ and the outcomes of other situational
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While gene therapy holds promise as a revolutionary approach to treating disease‚ ethical concerns over its use and ramifications have been expressed by scientists and lay people alike. For example‚ since much needs to be learned about how these genes actually work and their long-term effect‚ is it ethical to test these therapies on humans‚ where they could have a disastrous result? As with most clinical trials concerning new therapies‚ including many drugs‚ the patients participating in these studies
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Eleven deaths and over one million gallons of oil spilling per day and BP tried to duck responsibility. This lack in corporate social responsibility impacted the stakeholders‚ and had a huge negative impact on BP. BP has a long history of legal and ethical violations. Over the past twenty years‚ BP subsidiaries have been convicted three times of environmental crimes in Alaska and Texas including two felonies. The company is still on probation for two of them. The company also received the largest
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Business Unit 1 Individual Project In order for a business to succeed into the future growth is needed. The success of this company is not in the amount of products we make but the amount of customers we gain. In order for us to ensure our customers continue to do business with us we need to provide a product that holds quality as well as the company name. With this being said there are a few products that could potentially be defective and should be recalled prior
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specific human being. Biometric technology has been around for so many years and the technology has being used as the latest weapon to fight against crime. The scope of this paper is reflecting on biometric in terms of ethical and privacy issues. There are a number of ethical issues centering on biometric concerning privacy rights of individuals. Examples of biometric technology are fingerprints‚ facial recognition‚ DNA‚ palm print recognition‚ hand geometry‚ iris recognition‚ odor recognition and
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What would you do if you were a forensic nurse called in the middle of the night to a police station to treat the hand of a person that is a suspect of serious assault‚ and when you question him on his injuries he tells you that he got them by punching the person that raped him? Is this man a victim of abuse or a suspect of serious assault? Ethical dilemmas such as this one are a common occurrence that‚ unfortunately‚ forensic nurses face in their everyday work. Although there are a vast number
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IS4560 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Information Gathering Plan The explosive growth and popularity of the Internet have resulted in thousands of structured query able information sources. Most organizations are familiar with Penetration Testing and other ethical hacking techniques as a means to understanding the current security status of their information system assets. Consequently‚ much of the focus of research‚ discussion‚ and practice‚ has traditionally been placed upon active probing and exploitation
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members of the tribe are attempting to instill discipline and pride in their traditions within the younger generation. The idea of re instituting whale hunting has come with opposition from the elder members as well as environmentalists. Moral issues‚ in terms of Utility‚ would include traits either helpful or harmful to the world as a whole allowing the determination of its rightness or wrongness. Returning the tribe to the tradition of hunting would leave the hunters with a sense of pleasure
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Ethical issue in environmental pollution. The environment landscape nowadays have completely different if compared to previous centuries‚ as human population around the world rapidly increases and we are more advance in technology and transportation it bring harmful impact to environmental landscape. The environment currently as we all aware of it was polluted because of our own action and still nothing or less effort to change it before it’s become too late. All of the pollution that incurred
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