Apple Inc. Achieving sustainability in the mobile phone industry. By Marcos Badessich Business & the Natural Environment MN30448 University of Bath Semester 2‚ 2015. 1. Introduction. Apple is an American tech giant headquartered in Cupertino‚ California. The company designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets mobile communication and media devices‚ personal computers (PCs)‚ and portable digital music players‚ and sells a variety of related software‚ services‚ peripherals‚ networking solutions‚ and third-party
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Journal of Applied Psychology 2010‚ Vol. 95‚ No. 1‚ 1–31 © 2010 American Psychological Association 0021-9010/10/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0017103 Bad Apples‚ Bad Cases‚ and Bad Barrels: Meta-Analytic Evidence About Sources of Unethical Decisions at Work Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart‚ David A. Harrison‚ and Linda Klebe Trevino ˜ Pennsylvania State University‚ University Park Campus As corporate scandals proliferate‚ practitioners and researchers alike need a cumulative‚ quantitative understanding of the antecedents
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people come week after week. The obsession with celebrities‚ scandal and gossip appear to be an American culture in particular. There has always been a fascination with the lives of the rich and famous‚ which most people will never have experience of. Why tabloid magazines appeal me? Because they have lots of pictures of celebrities. It’s obvious that visual appeal is much stronger than a page full of words. Those magazines also hit to people’s obsession of celebrity. They usually talk about relationship
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Executive Summary Organisational factors or ‘bad barrels’ are said to have instigated many occurrences of corporate corruption and deviant behaviour (Wharton 2002‚ p 2)‚ involving large numbers of active or passive participants; these are ‘rarely the result of a few bad apples’ (Murphy 2007‚ p 7). The AWB case is a clear example of corporate culture and other systemic failures influencing and defining an organisation’s decision making and its ethical posture. This report addresses the underlying
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Through the article‚ “Why Stereotypes are bad even when they’re ‘good’”‚ Oliver Burkeman sheds light on the fact that good stereotypes‚ meaning stereotypes regarding appealing traits‚ can also be harmful. He illustrated this through a study by the Duke University‚ which stated that good stereotypes might even be worse‚ due to the fact that people don’t actually realize the harm they cause while stereotyping. The
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Soleil Navarro College Prep Mr. Pohl April 14‚ 2017 Monoculture is bad Wondering about how our food is farmed isn’t a popular thing to do. I personally had never thought of the process until I read an article on the effects of monoculture. This made me realize that to get food for today we may be destroying the world tomorrow. By this I mean that the easy process of monoculture to yield large amounts of food is actually hurting us. When people think food they never quite stop
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A Few Bad Apples The United States of America has become a powerful country that honors freedom and courage. Our country has overcome racial discrimination‚ the freedom to vote despite gender‚ to speak freely‚ endured wars‚ economic strikes‚ technological advances and stockmarket plummits. However‚ America cannot be perfect‚ nor can any country be. It is up to the citizens of America to set a good example and push our country as close to perfect as we can. We can start by acknowledging our nation’s
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Organizational Theory on APPLE INC. 1.Introduction Power is a measurement of an actor’s ability to influence the behavior‚ thoughts or activities of another actor (eds Ott‚ Parkes & Simpson 2008). Authority‚ power that is legitimized by the legal and cultural foundations on which an organization is based‚ is the ultimate source of power in a organization (Gareth R. Jones 2001). Whenever there is a use of authoritative control it creates resistance and obedience. In this essay‚ power and the
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Abstract When I think of bad or evil leadership‚ I think the power between leaders and followers are often locked in a complicated dance of sorts. Leadership today is a phenomenon‚ which implies that a leader‚ by nature‚ is someone wise and inspirational. However‚ it is better to understand that sometimes a leader is driven by darker forces‚ as well as their followers. Leadership can be painted in shades of gray‚ sometimes in black and bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious. This
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The good or bad apple approach as well as the situational approach are not the only part of making ethical decisions but they will have an influence in the certain stages along the way. There are two main important components that make up the ethical decision making model. First being the ethical decision making process and second is the factors that influence that process. There are also four important stages within the process which include awareness‚ judgment‚ intention‚ and action or behavior
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