Within his idea, ‘tough business’ examines the tensions between businessmen and ethical decisions and the paradoxical pressure between the moral values of heaven and earth. “Tough business is a place where heaven and earth meet and tussle” (Brinn, 1999, p. 5). The principle of ‘tough business’ also examines the underlaying moral and personal stresses of being ‘in but not of’ the world. “Do not love the world nor the things in the world.…
The article by Jill Andresky Fraser talks about the problems faced by people who are working in corporate America. She frames the problem by talking to people who are living a comfortable life and are working hard in their jobs and discussing their work and life. The article exposes the life of employees of large corporations who are ideal employees and are doing the best they can, but are constantly stressed and feel the tension of their jobs seeping into their life. They have to constantly work and hardly get any time when they can relax and not think about their work. The article describes the kind of life the well paid employees of large corporations live, how they are treated by their companies, and how the companies see them.…
Finding the half-life of Aluminum-28 is the purpose of this lab. The class met at the Radiation Center and exposed small amounts of aluminum to energetic neutrons and watched the samples decay. After creating a table with background count and gross counts of the aluminum remaining at fifteen different one-minute intervals, this allowed the net counts per minute at each interval to be found as well. Next a graph of the net cpm verses time was plotted. After each interval was plotted the K-value (slope) was found along with the half-life. The actual half-life of Aluminum is 2.25 minutes. The half-life found in our group was 2.23 minutes.…
Through the course of running a business, a company interacts and cooperates with many different distinct groups of people who have some kind of claim upon the company’s success. These groups are known as stakeholders and each group has a different set of goals for the company, as well as influences upon their business. One of these major stakeholders is the government, who act on a local, municipal, and federal level. The government’s regulations, authorizations, and general dealings can all have major effects on the way a company is run. These rulings, as do all actions influencing a corporation, have moral implications as well, whether ethical or unethical. It is perfectly fair for people to organize as self-governing groups and fight the damage Wal-Mart causes in communities that depend on the innovation rampant in small business operations.…
This short book, by Wayne Grudem does not go into depth however conveys the ideas presented perfectly. Grudem states that he wanted to and is still in the process of writing another more detailed book. Grudem sets the book up into eleven chapters with their own subject and defines them. These chapters include: Ownership, Productivity, Employment, Commercial transactions (buying and selling), Profit, Money, Inequality of possessions, Competition, Borrowing and lending, Attitudes of heart, and lastly Effect on world poverty. The main focus that Grudem is attempting to convey in this book is this question, “IS BUSINESS BASICALLY good or evil?”…
This is a survey course on the social, political, and ethical environment of business. It is designed to give you insight into complex and controversial social issues and public policy problems that complicate the task of managing American business. Topics covered include the historical development of American business, America’s competitiveness problems, and the debates over business ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and government regulation of business. We will study and consider the implications of several of the most perplexing paradoxes facing American business managers today: the conflict between our faith in a free market and our desire for regulations providing consumer and environmental protection; the contradiction between the historical success of American business and our growing competitiveness problems; and our confusion over how best to manage business given the conflicting demand from shareholder and stakeholder groups with incompatible short- and long-term interests.…
Healthcare associated infections measures the transmission of diseases and/or bacteria between healthcare professionals and their patients. The measurement of transmissible infection diseases does not eliminate the chances in a hospital setting; rather, the day to day interaction with all healthcare workers. Hand hygiene contributes significantly to keeping patients safe regardless if the patients are humans and animals. Washing hands is a simple, inexpensive, and an effective action to prevent the spread of microbes that cause healthcare associated infection. The most common transmissible disease in any hospital, dental, or veterinary cleaning is Staphylococcus aureus. The task of proper hygiene in-between patients’ care enhances patient safety…
John T. Noonan makes the argument that the jump in probability for a fetus' coming to term, at a specific point in the development of the fetus, has an important implication for the humanity (personhood) of the fetus. He bases this argument on the reasoning that "life itself is a matter of probabilities, and most moral reasoning is an estimate of probabilities." He goes on to state that his argument in which a fetus has an implication for the humanity of the fetus is strictly an "appeal to probabilities that actually exist." To demonstrate his point concerning probabilities he uses an analogy. The analogy he uses is of a man who shoots into the bushes because of movement in the bushes. If the chances of this movement in the bushes being a man were 200 million to one, then no one would think anything of him firing away into the bushes. However, if the chances are 4 out of 5 that the movement is a man, then you would not be justified in firing into the bushes. He uses this analogy to relate it to the development of a baby. When a male ejaculates he emits about 200 million spermatozoa. Of these 200 million, only one single spermatozoon has a chance to develop into a zygote. Noonan says that therefore, if one spermatozoon is destroyed than you're only destroying a being that had a one in 200 million chance of ever developing into a reasoning being. This would be similar to the case of shooting into the bushes when there is a one in 200 million chance that the movement is that of a man. On the other hand, if a fetus is destroyed, then you're terminating a being that had "an 80 percent chance of developing further into a baby outside the womb who, in time, would reason." This would be similar to shooting into the bushes when the movement has a 4 out of 5 chance of being that of a man. The probability of the baby becoming a full being of reason drastically changes from a single spermatozoon (1 in 200 million) to a fetus (4 out of 5). This probability change…
In accordance with the NMC guidelines and the Nursing code of practice, any patient, placement and clinical names have been removed or changed in the assignment; this is to ensure all information is kept confidential and follows the confidentiality policy from the NMC (NMC, 2009)This is a reflective report about hand decontamination. Hand washing is found to be the single most important clinical skill in preventing cross contamination and infection control (Dougherty & Lister, 2009) In this report I will reflect on my personal experience, after learning the theory and practicing the hand hygiene technique, reflecting on my feelings and areas for improvement.…
One problem that many Americans think is wrong with capitalism is that it fails to respond to the needs of people. A solution to fix this problem would be to open up companies to let the people speak up and say the things that are truly going wrong. Although companies do allow these meetings to happen approximately once a year, the people don’t always get heard to the full extent that they should. When Americans do speak up, only about one-quarter of it gets heard and gets put to use. If we would all…
The current big business climate is littered with hostile takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, denying workers fair pay and a litany of other ethical crimes. The myth of American affluence is a true story for an incredibly small number of people. A minority of a minority control the money in this country and they use that wealth to cultivate massive amounts of influence and power. The three fundamental principles explained in The Struggle Democracy are saturated with exceptions and dirty dealings because of corporate capitalism and “...[It] deserves our…
The amount of suffering caused by corporate greed, by human greed, feels overpowering. I ask myself how do I make the changes necessary, as one person, fighting a culture that is so out of balance? How do I face imbalance in myself? The book Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects offered an introduction and rooting into wisdom, that was then deepened by revisiting this material in the workshop intensive. The first chapter, which outlined the three narratives present in our world at this time, Business as Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the Great Turning, helped me to locate myself in this great mess. The purpose of the realizations made in the Great Turning, as framed in the book are to, “save us from succumbing to either panic or paralysis. They help us resist the temptation to stick our heads in the sand.” (Macy,…
Thirty-five years ago, Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up its main point: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." Friedman had no patience for capitalists who claimed that "business is not concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social' ends; that business has a 'social conscience' and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers." Friedman wrote that such people are "preaching pure and unadulterated socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades."…
American businesses have become highly competitive today in a market that is constantly changing to keep up with a new generation of ideas. These fluctuations in the economy have caused businesses to take different methods of actions to be competitive in the market. In the 1970’s Sears reigned as one of America’s well known retailers and shaped popular culture. As the market of demand became more competitive, Sears’ earnings began falling off the market. In order to get on the stock market, Sears had to cut 48,000 jobs and institutionalized a new compensation system (Callahan 31). As Sears set their new bottom-line standards to increase efficiency, it caused uproar from the employees. The demands of the company ultimately undermined the integrity of their workers. The pressure to make unpleasant ethical choices at work had employees “torn between moral integrity, losing [their] job, and trying to figure out how to work all this out”…
* Functional departmentalization - Grouping activities by functions performed. Activities can be grouped according to function (work being done) to pursue economies of scale by placing employees with shared skills and knowledge into departments for example human resources, IT, accounting, manufacturing, logistics, and engineering. Functional departmentalization can be used in all types of organizations.…