fails to act according to generally prevailing ethical values. 4. Discretionary responsibilities are the purely voluntary obligations a corporation assumes. Examples are philanthropic contributions‚ training the hard-core unemployed‚ and providing day-care centers. The difference between ethical and discretionary responsibilities is that few people expect an organization to fulfill discretionary responsibilities‚ whereas many expect an organization to fulfill ethical ones.5 Social responsibility
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Explain the difference between absolutist and relativist ethics. The Absolutist theory is the theory that certain things are right or wrong from an objective point of view and cannot change according to culture. Certain actions are intrinsically right or wrong‚ which means they are right or wrong in themselves. This is also known as deontological. The relativist theory is the theory that there are no universally valid moral principles. All principles and values are relative to a particular culture
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Ethics: U.S. Legal System Janaica Rambo AIU Online August 23‚ 2012 Abstract Why is ethics such an important topic of discussion? Choosing what is right or wrong leads to many dilemmas every day. Being knowledgeable on ethics can be helpful to people when facing ethical decisions. The U.S legal system has set forth rules and principles that are to be followed to ensure that our legal system promotes good ethics. This paper will discuss what ethics is‚ how it ties to our legal system‚ and
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Ethics and Morality Marian Agbabokha Walden University Last week’s foundation course‚ exposed me to a lot of issues regarding my profession as an election officer‚ it gave me food for thought. As a scholar and student of public policy and administration‚ what kind of responsibilities will this course place in my care‚ based on the information I would have gathered and assimilated‚ that I would have to pass on to those in my work place
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TuckerMax.me September 6‚ 2012 Book Summary: The Rock Says… The Rock Says… by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson‚ Joe Layden HarperEntertainment; First Edition edition‚ January 5‚ 2000 Tucker’s Rating: 4 / 10 Buy on Amazon What’s it about?: The first autobiography of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson‚ written when he was only a professional wrestler. Tucker’s Opinion: Let me be very clear that I have an immense amount of respect for The Rock‚ as an entertainer‚ an athlete‚ and a person. But this
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Ethics In Strategic Management MGT/498 July 12‚ 2014 Cheryl Boehm Ethics in Strategic Management The role that ethics plays in strategic management has changed drastically in the last 20 years. It was rare to find companies that had ethics in the forefront of their management plans in the 1990s. Business was all about maximizing profit/shareholder equity. Incidents like Enron ’s bankruptcy caused a big change in management style. "Enron ’s failure in 2001 represents
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Business ethics -Ethics derived from the Greek word ethos – which refers to the conventional customs and norms of a given culture – the term ethics can be understood in two ways: • as a traditional field of philosophical inquiry dating back to ancient Greece‚ which is concerned with values as they relate to human conduct; and • as the systematic study of norms and values that guide how people should live their lives. -Ethics is to do with what is good and bad or right and wrong. The
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Stillness of the dawn was displaced by the scheduled game of the morning gusts. Pages of newsletters a crucified against a brick- wall using four large black nails‚ expanded and compressed like a heart‚ displaying ’Market Place’. Looking around all that could be seen was a crowd of people pushing‚ shoving and shouting. People rushed by‚ Gathering up items as fast as they could‚ People often travelled in groups; parents and children or Other family members and even friends; They were the ones causing
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March 2014 Place of Importance. There’s always a place of importance that everyone has in their lives. A place where it holds strong feelings or good memories‚ like of a place where I had grew up. My place of importance would be the Philippines because that’s where I was born and was brought up. I was born in Bangui‚ Ilocos Norte Philippines‚ and I came to the United States when I was six years old. Later‚ I went back for a couple of months when I was about twenty-years old. My place of importance
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Watching the movie The Hiding Place made me realize how much better and different books are than movies. A major difference between the book and the movie was the beginning. For instance‚ the book started with the watch shops’ 100th Anniversary‚ and the movie started with the Nazis taking away the Ten Boom family’s radio. The movie skipped a lot of events such as the 100th Anniversary and introducing the family and their roles in the story. It would have been better if the movie at least showed the
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