Ethical and Regulatory Issues Paper President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law in February 1996. The law modified earlier legislation‚ primarily the Communications Act of 1934. The legislation regulates broadcasting by over-the-air television and radio stations‚ cable television operators‚ satellite broadcasters‚ wireline telephone companies (local and long distance) and wireless telephone companies. The general intention of the Act was deregulation and competition. The
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Running head: WORKPLACE ETHICAL DILEMMA Workplace Ethical Dilemma University of Phoenix Professional‚ Ethical and Legal Issues in Human Service BSHS/332 July 05‚ 2010 Workplace Ethical Dilemma Most large organizations have implemented policies that dictate how they will conduct employee relations. One area of employee relations is the giving performance evaluations. In this paper‚ the moral and ethical issues faced by managers giving performance evaluations will be addressed.
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Ethical Issues in Organizations Krishna Singh BUS 610 September 5‚ 2011 Ethical issues in organizations Assignment on this ethical issue assignment is very important and critical as all the companies or organizations do have some ethical dilemmas or ethical issues. Before I begin to write more on this topic‚ I would like to define what exactly the ethic means whether it is in corporate world or in everyday personal life. According to the Webster’s collegiate dictionary‚ “ethics is the
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Ethical issues in the retail pharmaceutical industry: An analysis of the ethical dilemmas faced within Chaguanas Drug Mart Limited Abstract: The ethical duty of a pharmacy is to promote a patient’s best interest. However‚ certain obvious ethical issues will arise. Within any business involved in bulk purchasing the issue of unconscious theft will also occur. The following paper focuses on the application of ethical theories that supports as well as argues the behavior within Chaguanas Drug Mart
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There were organizational ethical leadership problems that resulted in Columbia/HCA’s misconduct. They were focused more on profits. Leadership allowed and/or asked billing to overcharge Medicare and other federal programs. They paid doctor’s to sign off on records that a patient had a specific procedure even though they did not. They used a “patient dumping” system or released patients to other hospitals even though they were not in stable condition. And they minimized training from what is
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Ethical Environmental Issues SOC 120: Introduction To Ethics & Social Responsibility 01/18/10 “Ethics is the study of the choices people make regarding right and wrong” (Ruggiero‚ 2008). Environmental ethics‚ it is more of a study about moral relationships of human beings to‚ and also the value and moral status of‚ the environment and its nonhuman contents. Humans have been sharing our lives with nature for many of years; we have to make many ethical decisions with respect to the environment
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A model of image creation and image transfer in event sponsorship Kevin Gwinner School of Business‚ East Carolina University‚ Greenville‚ North Carolina‚ U S A Introduction Due to the proliferation of leisure events in today’s society‚ the awareness and opportunity for corporate event sponsorship is at an all time high. Loosely defined‚ sponsorship “can be regarded as the provision of assistance either financial or in-kind to an activity [e.g.‚ sport‚ musical event‚ festival‚ fair‚ or within the
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today. But by 2004‚ the company found itself close to extinction‚ losing $1 million a day. A new CEO was brought in‚ and five years later‚ sales were strong‚ profits were up‚ and naysayers who felt the new strategy was going to fail were proved wrong. With the advent of high-tech forms of entertainment such as the iPod and PlayStation Lego found itself more antique than cutting edge in the toy world. When new CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp‚ a father and former McKinsey consultant‚ took over‚ the company
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McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2008‚The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter 2 Competing with Information Technology McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2008‚The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Learning Objectives • Identify basic competitive strategies and explain how a business can use IT to confront the competitive forces it
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International Journal of Trade‚ Economics and Finance‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 1‚ June‚ 2010 2010-023X Information Technology roles in Accounting Tasks – A Multiple-case Study Maria do Céu Gaspar Alves accounting‚ the relationship between IT and accounting has been studied relatively little” (Granlund‚ 2007:3). Based on a literature review of earlier research and empirical studies we conclude that there is a very limited knowledge about the impact of the most recent IT developments in the accounting field
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