is now out of business as of 2006 due to several unethical decisions by the Rigas family. Any organization‚ if operated under unethical decision making to this extent‚ would be destined for failure and Adelphia Communications is no exception. The two main unethical actions underlined are untruthfulness and stealing. Were these actions justified‚ deontologically speaking? How does Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative apply to these two unethical actions in a business scenario? The Scandal Adelphia
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he expected to be meet. Throughout the duration of the NME we learned about many of unethical decisions made by Eamer and his executives. The ethical culture of NME was focused on doing what ever it took to reach financial goals created by Eamer. This culture was established by the rewards for reaching goals as well as the lack of respect when the goals were not reached. The goals lead NME to make unethical decisions such as over charging patents and offering payments to probation officers‚ and
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potentially unethical. Why do you think it is not ethical? It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have time to right it his self. He has no right asking the secretary to do it for him. 2) Using the three ethics check questions on page 94 of the Understanding Business text‚ describe how you would handle this situation. Though there is sometimes a difference between behaviors that are unethical and activities that are actually illegal‚ it is up to the business itself to decide how it deals with unethical behavior
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individual or group or a guiding philosophy”. According to Maniam and Teetz‚ unethical behavior has played a large role in the business failure over the few years. Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers are being charged with crimes and pleading guilty to these crimes on a daily basis. In business world the motivation for cheating is financial gain. This motivates the people to display this greed‚ deceitful and unethical conduct which eventually causes them and organizational problems. One
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Summary of It’s Good Business The author Robert Solomon argues that ethics has to an integral part with regard to business management. He does not believe that business management must include unethical or illegal methods to be able to succeed. Solomon preaches that business management is not as simple as obtaining revenue. “Businesses need to abide by fair policies and their owners have to be ethical in dealing with their customers” (Shaw p. 37). The author acknowledges that while illegal practices
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The Family Affair Case P Harris University Unit 5 Assignment: The Family Affair Case This case is both very unethical and disturbing to evaluate. The R&S Electronics Service Company hired a new head of the Payroll Department named Jane; she was very excited for this opportunity. Eddie‚ the General Manager communicated to Jane the expectations of her new position and the importance of not discussing employees pay rate or commission earned with other employees‚ this action would
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Can Ethics be Taught With more people educated with higher degrees now more than ever‚ why are scandals relating to unethical behavior on the rise? It seems like every time I read the newspaper there is another scandal relating to some high-level executive involved in unethical behavior. We must ask ourselves if organizations follow any type of ethical principles or guidelines. It is common practice for organizations to gain success regardless of hurting others to increase the bottom line. We
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owned by the Shinjiazhuang Three Deers Limited. In 2009‚ Sanlu Group declared bankrupt by the court due to some unethical practices. Thus‚ the practices of an organization whether is ethically or unethically able to impact the future of the company and in the following part‚ we will indicate more on the ethical and unethical issues with the example of Sanlu Group. 1.2 Ethical and unethical issues Business ethics is defined as the study of moral and social responsibility in relation to business
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Question 1: The Singapore Code of CG advocates the disclosure of company whistle-blowing practices and procedures. Should employees have a duty to blow the whistle on unethical or illegal acts? Before we proceed into the essay question‚ we need to ask ourselves what we understand by the term “Whistleblowing”. There is no globally accepted definition for whistle-blowing although several attempts have been made to define it. Ralph Nader was one of the first few in modern history to use the
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If an employee leaves a company to work for a competitor‚ what types of knowledge could be ethical for the employee to share with the new employer and what types of knowledge would be unethical to share? With business in constant competition‚ losing an employee to a competitor could pose threat to the success of a company with the knowledge a former employee brings the competitor. Ethics‚ by contrast‚ is defined as the principles and standards of moral behavior that are accepted by society as
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