A comprehensive study of responsible commerce broadens one’s perspective regarding the importance of a social paradigm within the ethics of business. By undertaking this subject‚ I was able to develop my understanding of the role of morality in business and how differing ethical theories impact upon stakeholders. Acting to benefit the interests of a majority is at the core of the consequentialist theory of utilitarianism‚ a philosophy carefully examined throughout the semester. Its merits and faults
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FONTERRA AS A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE COMPANY Executive summary Fonterra is a co-operatively owned multinational dairy company and also New Zealand’s largest company. The purpose of this report was to determine the company’s public image as well as investigate whether the company operates in a socially responsible manner. An analysis of various instances in which Fonterra has appeared in the media was conducted with the perspectives on corporate social responsibility in mind. The conclusions were
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What would a socially responsible tobacco company look like? It could certainly not be defined as such if it did not address the harm its products cause. It would be engaged in research and development seeking to develop less harmful versions of it product that would remain acceptable to its customers. It would have a clear code of conduct about how it seeks to market it’s products and to whom it would aim to tackle corruption and smuggling. It would ensure tobacco farmers worked in good conditions
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for your business. The question of this article is‚ can companies do well by doing good? The idea is that companies have a responsibility to do what’s right for the public. Most of the time doing what is right reflects profits for the company. The article talks about socially responsible business practices being irrelevant because it is all an illusion‚ and potentially a dangerous one. The whole reasoning behind socially responsible business practices being irrelevant is that in most cases‚ doing
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Do you believe the media or the Internet is/are responsible for real-life violence? How many times‚ while watching television‚ have you seen a dead body or someone being killed? Countless‚ because violence makes money. It sells! However does this mean that the media is to blame for the growing number of violent crimes in our country? I don’t think so! Many of today’s television shows would be taken off the air if there wasn’t some sort of violence on them. Take the show “Grey’s Anatomy” for
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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE Telus Corp. Nowadays many successful companies are making corporate social responsibility a key to business. Telus was selected to one of the Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporation in Canada that Maclean’s published in 2011. In response to the 2011 Alberta fires‚ the company provided free wireless calling‚ a stoppage on billing‚ long-distance calling cards‚ replacement cellphones and over 1‚600 comfort kits for relief workers and residents of Slave Lake (Jantzi-Sustainalytics
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Apple‚ a Socially Responsible Corporation It is no mystery that companies exist and desire to make a profit from their product or service being offered. However‚ it is becoming increasing popular that companies desire to achieve social responsibility in order to increase their public image‚ which in turn should lead to increased profits. In this class‚ we learned that social responsibility is the duty to take an action that will benefit the interests of society and the organization (Kinicki &
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Do you believe in God and why? With over 20 major religions in today’s world‚ God is the most recognized superior power. We are told to believe that this God is a supernatural being: one of a group of supernatural male beings in some religions‚ each of which is worshiped as the personification or controller of some aspect of the universe. God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism‚ or a single deity in polytheism
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government and people will buy into them because they believe that what they are saying could be true.
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"Do you believe in fate Neo‚" Morpheus asks. "No‚" Neo responds. "Why not?" "Because I don ’t like the idea that I ’m not in control of my life‚" Neo explains. In this scene (from the blockbuster smash hit The Matrix) a parallel can be drawn between Neo and Bigger Thomas (the protagonist in Richard Wright ’s novel Native Son) because Bigger shares Neo ’s feelings about fate. Bigger Thomas‚ a boy who has grown up with the chains of white society holding him back from opportunity‚ has only one solution
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