AND ITS ROLE IN THE DOWNFALL Corporate Culture and its Role in the Downfall Of Arthur Anderson LLC and Sunbeam Corporation Darrell V. Davis Grand Canyon University Bus 604 Business Ethics July 5‚ 2009 Abstract Corporate culture plays an extremely important role in the development of a company. Whether explicitly stated or not‚ the culture of a company reveals its attitude‚ motivation‚ and intentions. Arthur Andersen’s and Sunbeam’s cultures revealed that they were on the hunt for huge profits
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His name alone is ironic‚ in the fact that he assists in Connie’s doom. This most likely plays to the fact that why you see at first glance is not the truth. Some critics believe Arthur Friend is symbolic of the devil‚ something that may or may not have some truth behind it. With the use of his last name‚ Friend is anything but a friend. By using a word that usually has a positive connotative meaning‚ the author takes that meaning
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible develops characters that portray problems with their identities. This inner struggle is clearly seen in the main character John Proctor. He is the man Miller has chosen to struggle with “the dilemma of men‚ fallible‚ subject to pride‚ but forced to choose between the “negative good” of truth and morality‚ and the “positive good” of human life.” (Internet‚ Arthur Miller Home Page) In order for this character to develop‚
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great consequences for her lover‚ Minister Dimmesdale and their daughter‚ Pearl. Hester‚ Chillingworth‚ and Dimmesdale have executed sinful‚ secretive actions that led them to be punished in shameful ways. Who of the three is the biggest sinner? Dimmesdale and Hester believe that Chillingworth is the worst sinner because of his deliberate revenge that “has been blacker than [his] sin” (Hawthorne 176). Unlike what Dimmesdale asserts‚ I believe that Dimmesdale is the greatest sinner of the three because
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The experience of Arthur Dimmesdale parallels that of the Bible’s story of King David and Bathsheba and demonstrates that sin is a natural‚ unavoidable part of human life‚ but having committed a sin without confession leads to a life of internal turmoil and guilt. Hawthorne pushes the parallel between Dimmesdale’s experience and the scriptural story of David and Bathsheba with the description of the tapestries decorating Dimmesdale’s study (112). In doing so‚ he gives Dimmesdale a larger-than-life
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English 3 AP 21 October 2011 The Struggle for the Soul of Arthur Dimmesdale In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne relates the struggle of Dimmesdale’s soul to the classic model of good vs. evil. Arthur Dimmesdale has committed a sin that is heavily frowned upon throughout his community‚ though; nobody in the community knows what that sin is besides Hester Prynne. Dimmesdale is the minister of the community and he has committed the sin of adultery‚ partaking in an affair with
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1. For many years‚ strategy and environment of Arthur Andersen changed especially with regards to the materials. The management of Andersen’s businesses reacted to the changing environment by making the related changes to the organizational architectures such as performance evaluation‚ decision right and reward systems. In the book‚ it is revealed that poorly designed organizations architecture in response to the changing environment in term of material can result into company’s underperformance
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literature. The grail started out as a literary creation by Chretien De Troyes for his story Perceval and has expanded to other tales such as Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and The Quest for the Holy Grail‚ which can be found in The Romance of Arthur. Although there is somewhat a consistency revolving around the grail in these stories‚ each piece has a different perspective of the grail and how it is portrayed. After analyzing all three stories stated above‚ it has come to my attention that the
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There was a Knight in King Arthur’s time who raped a fair young maiden. King Arthur sent a decree out that the Knight must be brought to justice. When the Knight is captured‚ he is condemned to death‚ but the Queen intercedes on behalf of the Knight and asks the King to allow her to pass judgment on the Knight. The Queen asks the Knight‚ “What is the thing that most women desire?” The Knight does not have an answer. The Queen releases the Knight‚ but commands him to return within one year with an
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Arthur Andersen’s Troubles 1. Arthur Anderson (AA) should have been able to help prevent to some extent the Enron disaster‚ however‚ they either missed or ignored Enron’s manipulations allowing the fraud to continue as long as it did. AA contributed to the disaster by approving the structure of many Special Purpose Entities (SPE)‚ which Enron used for off-balance sheet financing. The SPEs did not meet the requirements of an independent company and should have been consolidated with Enron’s
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