Trident University Bruce W. Johns Module 1 Case Assignment ETH501 - Business Ethics Dr. Shondria Woods July 29‚ 2011 Should Bank of America refuse to process payments and do business with WikiLeaks? WikiLeaks a company of mystery and without scruples that will release information on anyone or anything that it thinks it may be able to discredit. In my belief ethics upon both WikiLeaks and Bank of America are scarred and will lead both to doing things that are unethical
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Class A stock were listed on NASDAQ until June 3‚ 2002. Adelphia filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on June 25‚ 2002. In March 2002‚ Adelphia ’s Board of Directors appointed a Special Committee to investigate business relationships between Adelphia and affiliates of the Riga’s family. Thompson‚ L. M. Jr. (2005). J. Riga’s is 77 years old and resides in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania. He was Adelphia ’s founder and until May 15‚ 2002‚ were its CEO and Chairman of
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WorldCom. These businesses began with good intentions and ended up internally combusting. All of it was due to the result of GREED. Greed is a disease‚ and has plagued several organizational leaders over time and caused them to go against their good ethics and morals. There are many opinions as to why people commit the acts that they do but the bottom line is that money will sometimes bring out the evil in the best of people and Leaders of Corporate America are not immune. Background:
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The European Tours - TUI Travels Plc TUI Travels Plc is one of the world’s leading leisure travel companies with over 250 of the best loved and market leading travel brands in 180 countries and more than 30 million customers. Question 1 - Value Chain Value chain analysis is the process in which a firm identifies its primary as well as secondary activities that add value to the final products or service. Primary activities. Inbound logistics – TUI Travels Plc has a global supply chain which
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TUI Travel PLC Market overview 2 business models: individualization and commoditization (best serve to changing needs). But How Does a Service Become a Commodity? Traditionally‚ services cannot be commoditized‚ as there are numerous variables that account for differences between the type and level of service offered by each provider. The commoditization of hotels started many years ago with the first rating systems. Companies like the American Automobile Association (AAA) and Mobil (now Forbes)
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For this case study we are asked to draw upon deontological ethics‚ and discuss how Adelphia Communications’ executives violated the trust of the company’s shareholders and the trust of that of the larger public. To do this we first need to take a look at deontological ethics and how the philosophy of deontological ethics affects the choices that were made in the Adelphia Communications’ case. We will also look at the Adelphia case and examine how its executives violated the trust of the company’s
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TUI Porter’s Five force analysis of the tourism industry. Competitive rivalry Moderate Competitive Rivalry Global industry growth rate is 4.1% (UNWTO .2005 ) High fixed cost largely favours the incumbents Variation of sizes of incumbents The threats of Substitutes Low threats of substitutes Technologies (TV and Games ) could act as substitutes but cant replace travel. Low differentiation of product limits the substitutes. The bargaining power of the buyers
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Introduction This report is part of the management report to be written during the module strategic hospitality management at Stenden University. It deals with the external environment of TUI. First a PESTEL analysis is executed in order to get an overview about the macro environment. From there the key drivers of change for TUI are identified and further opportunities and threats are extended. After the macro environment the industry is analyzed with the help of Porter’s Five Forces. The impact of the
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The main objective of the paper is to critically analyse the operational activities in travel and for that reason the chosen company is Tui Travel. The paper will explain the operational activities of Tui Travel. Tui Travel is basically a British travelling group that was started in 2007. Tui Travel has now merged with TUI AG in order to become TUI group. This group is a company of opportunities for the customers‚ employees‚ and shareholders. Since the company is under one roof‚ all the companies
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the core textbook * “I’m still not sure of what an ethical dilemma is and if my dilemma is a dilemma!”- OK. Questions to ask yourself: * Is my dilemma about an individual who is facing a problem? * Can I justify the problem as a business ethical problem in which an individual is faced with making a difficult ethical decision of some kind (i.e. a dilemma)? * Can I examine the dilemma and justify it as an ethical dilemma meeting the 4 performance areas (p.9) of the marking scheme
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