The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Trimester 1‚ 2013 71203 Business Ethics Assignment 1 Weighting: This assignment is worth 35% of your final mark. Due date: Your completed assignment must reach the Open Polytechnic by Tuesday‚ 2 April 2013. Instructions 1. This assignment is based on the course material and readings in Module 1. You should draw on a topic in a later module only if it is relevant to the situation you choose for Part B of the assignment. Complete Part A and Part B‚ following
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Business Ethics and Sustainability Ethics” are the regulations of actions recognized in respect to a particular set of human actions or a particular group‚ civilization‚ etc. In other words ‘Ethics rationalizes morality to produce ethical theory that can be applied to any situation’ (Crane and Matten 2010‚ p. 8). The imperatives of usual managerial performance are so compelling that there is little time or proclivity to deflect attention to the moral content of organizational decision-making
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Course: Business ethics RACISM Racism itself is a sub-topic of discrimination. Racism is basically discrimination‚ or in simple words‚ hatred or disliking towards a human being because that certain person belongs to another culture or is of another colour which they may not like. Racism has been happening since the world has been made. Since beginning discrimination on very different occasions has been towards people‚ in which their fault is only
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Amtrak’s Case Study LS312: Ethics and the Legal Environment Unit 4: Assignment Kaplan University Professor Bill Mulherin January 3‚ 2013 Amtrak’s Case Study Corporate social responsibility can create big problems if corporations do not handle difficult situations properly‚ especially when there are accidents involved. According to the eGuide to Ethics and the Legal Environment chapter 2‚ “CSR is a business practice that demands that business organizations look to the effect their decisions
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BUSINESS ETHICS Q.1 a) What are the legal issues involved in this case‚ and what are the moral issues? How are the two different kinds of issues different from each other‚ and how are they related to each other? Identify and distinguish the “systemic‚ corporate‚ and individuals” involved in this case. b) Analyze the ethics of marketing Publius using utilitarianism‚ rights‚ justice‚ and caring. In your judgment‚ it is ethical to market Publius? Explain. Q.2 a) Identify the behaviors
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Ethics in Business - Carlos Kasuga – Yakult – Mexico Management and Supervision Winter 2012 Any Nikkei leader in the Americas either personally knows or has heard of Carlos Kasuga because of his achievements as a businessman in Mexico‚ or because of his role in the Nikkei Pan-American Association(Matsumoto‚ A. June 2‚ 2011) Carlos Kasuga Osaka has run Yakult Mexico for more than 20 years. He graduated in accounting at a Mexican School called ‘Escuela Bancaria y Comercial ‘ in Mexico City
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Case Study 6.1 Sweatshops Katie White BA 616 Business Ethics Dr. Moore 31 May 2014 Which of your company’s practices can you defend in good conscience? The company can defend moving much of it’s manufacturing plants overseas. For the company this cuts labor costs and provides jobs to those who are in desperate need in other countries. The wages provided to employees is in compliance with the local laws. The employees are satisfied with their wages and the hours they work. There is a large demand
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many ethical issues that an organisation face and one of the organisations which faces major issue is the Kentucky Fried Chicken. In my report‚ I would analysis about the issue faced by KFC and the ethical problems that the company encounters. 1.0 ETHICS DILEMMAS FACING BY KFC KFC is among the most popular fast food brands in the world. Started out in the fifties‚ KFC now boasts of operating‚ franchising‚ and serving a worldwide chain of around 11‚000 fast food restaurants that prepare
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Ethics Question: Some argue that aggressively investing in emerging economies is not only economically beneficial‚ but also highly ethical because it may potentially lift many people out of poverty. However‚ others caution that in the absence of reasonable hopes of decent profits‚ rushing to emerging economies is reckless. How would you participate in this debate? As a free-market economic skeptic‚ prior to my readings‚ I felt that investing in emerging markets is more self serving and exploitative
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HR RELATED ETHICAL ISSUES INTRODUCTION: Ethics refers to a system of moral principles - a sense of right and wrong‚ and goodness and badness of actions and the motives and consequences of these actions. In the business‚ businessmen must draw their ideas about what is desirable behavior from the same sources as anybody else would draw. Ethical values channelize the individual energies into pursuits that are benign to others and beneficial to the society. Ethical issues abound in
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