Ethical Situations in Business Competency 310.2.1: Ethical Issues in Business Business Management / October 2012 Abstract This essay examines the ethical and socially responsible courses of action in a given business situation. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. They have recently closed a couple of stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city‚ reportedly because these two stores were consistently losing money. After years of requests from
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Employee Behavior From large corporations to small businesses‚ individuals involved in all types of business often face ethical issues stemming from employee behavior. For example‚ whether an employee can spend work time checking personal email accounts‚ how a manager deals with claims of harassment and to what extent a manager can "groom" a certain employee for a promotion are all examples of ethical issues regarding employee behavior. There are legal consequences for some unethical employee behavior
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Ethical Issues The issue of ethical behavior is one of the top challenges facing organizations today. A good definition of ethics includes the thought of doing what is morally acceptable or what is “good” and “right” as opposed to doing what is “bad” or “wrong” (Sims‚ 1992). But why are these issues a concern for organizations? What can they do to promote ethical behavior from their employees? Organizations should be concerned with ethical behavior for many reasons. Even though ethical decisions
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Topic: What are the advantages and 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
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? When people doing business‚ they may use different ethical standards other than what we use in daily life. The majority businessmen manage their business legally; however‚ not all legal business is ethical. I do not think that business bluffing is ethical. I will provide three arguments in following paragraphs which are based on theories of groupthink‚ consequentialist and duties to support my position. First of all‚ according to the theory of duties
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ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY lululemon athletica There are many ways to measure the success of a business. A financial analysis of lululemon athletica‚ a Vancouver-based company‚ would show that it is valued at more than $220 million. Would looking at an improved level of health in its community be another way to measure the success of this company? lululemon athletica founder Chip Wilson would welcome your investigation of the improved health and well-being of people in the communities
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Law‚ Ethics & Corporate. Governance Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility 16 May 2013 In submitting this paper I will show the stake holders Dr. DoRight (described latter in this paper as just the Doctor) has to interact with on a daily basis as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital.” I will also compare and contrast the conflicts of interest that could surface among internal and external stakeholders
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scam. The ponzi scam was is a scheme that was named after a man named Charles Ponzi. The idea of a ponzi scam is that it pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profits earned. This was exactly what Bernard Madoff did. In 2008 Bernard Madoff was caught in one of the biggest ponzi scams in history. In total $50 million dollars were taken and lost from investors. This scam was solely for the purpose of personal gain for Bernard Madoff
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A Business Ethical Duty: Social Responsibility Joe McClendon Western Governors University A community business has a social responsibility to its local community‚ its employees have an ethical duty their employer‚ and management has business responsibility to act in the best interest of stakeholders. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. The company is struggling internally with ethical integrity and social responsibility. Company Q’s ethical
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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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