Impacts of Unethical Behavior Adam S. Wilcox XACC/280 5/9/2012 Angelia Hunter Impacts of Unethical Behavior The collapse of Enron in 2001 shed the light on a number of unethical business and accounting practices in the corporate world. In 1986 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay combined his Houston Natural Gas company with several other companies. At this time the company began growing exponentially. By the mid-1990’s the deregulation of the oil and gas industries allowed Enron to spend
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4. Why is there a double standard placed on public officials regarding liability for conduct that is accepted when acted by private citizens? In the chapter of “Liability: What Should Be the Consequence of Unethical Conduct‚” it argues from an ethical viewpoint that the double standard applied to the public officials is misleading and that it is necessary to disregard the social status when it comes to determining the consequences of equal wrongdoing. This tendency for the public to
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concerns the moral appropriateness of a course of action (Arrigo‚ 2006). It presents classical theory as an overarching ethical principle that could be applied in solving moral ethical issues. In this case‚ classical ethics will be used in analyzing unethical orders in the military. This means that different perspectives of moral issues will be discussed through the introduction of relativism‚ emotive and ethical egoism. Utilitarianism Utilitarianism favors a course of action that facilitates happiness
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ARE ZOOS UNETHICAL TO ANIMALS? Name: Tutor: Course: Date: University: ARE ZOOS UNETHICAL TO ANIMALS? Introduction In recent times‚ argumentative debates have been witnessed over the moral predicament that zoos brings concerning animals’ rights‚ liberties and ordinary behavior. Most of the people take zoo as unethical and cruel whereas others have the opinion that they are moral due to the fact that they support in study‚ safeguard‚ and proper treatment of wildlife. This profound topic has caused
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Kozlowski believes his punishment was unjustified. The amount of money stolen from the Tyco International was more than the dominant part of bank thefts in the United States. Kozlowski attempted to make light of his behavior by stating he is serving more time than most murderers (Kaplan‚ 2009). Kozlowski came to a point in his career in which he thought he merited the accounts he stolen from Tyco. Kozlowski’s mental and moral vanity pushed him towards the deceptive conduct. Fundamentally‚ Kozlowski
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Unethical Business Practices at Enron LDR/531 Organizational Leadership August 11‚ 2011 Unethical Business Practices at Enron Enron Corporation came into existance in 1985 as the result of a merger between InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas. This merger produced the longest natural-gas pipeline network in the United States. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Jeffery Skilling‚ Enron changed from a gas-pipeline business into a natural-gas and electricity company during the
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Effects of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Prior to 2002 there were no regulations enforcing lawful ethical accounting practices. There were also no internal accounting controls which led to the large corporations to commit fraud by altering the books to make them look more profitable. By providing false information and significant omissions in there financial statements investors were enticed into forking up large amounts of money into these corporations. The effect of these actions will
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this process. However‚ one can reason that disposing of the rejected live human embryos‚ discouraging the sexual fertilization between certain groups of people‚ and regarding people with certain physical and mental traits as being the inferior are unethical. Primarily‚ one can argue that simply “flushing the other embryos down the drain” is the waste of potential human life. Discarding unwanted embryos is the direct result from embryo selection: when a woman’s eggs
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Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis W. Jordan Barrick ACT 291 October 8‚ 2012 David Fewkes Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis It is a far different world in the marketplace than just the year 2000. Consumer faith has plummeted‚ military campaigns have begun and ended and time after time large corporations are accused of terrible misconduct before a rapid demise. Whereas the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has dealt a tremendous hand for the betterment of ethical
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Institutionen för skogens produkter Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour – In Eastern European timber purchasing organizations Daniel Norberg & Emil Gustafsson Master Thesis Nr 17 2008 ISSN 1654-1367 Institutionen för skogens produkter Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour – In Eastern European timber purchasing organizations Daniel Norberg & Emil Gustafsson Master Thesis 30 ECTS credits‚ D-level in Business Administration Daniel Norberg
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