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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The movie ends with a rhetorical question‚ "Who do you want to see go first‚ you or them?" This is accompanied by a cartoon tombstone‚ which reads "Ronald McDonald (1954-2012)‚" which originally appeared in The Economist in an article addressing the ethics of marketing toward children.[10] A short epilogue was added to the DVD describing McDonald ’s discontinuation of the Super Size option six weeks after the movie ’s premiere‚ as well as its recent emphasis on healthier menu items such as salads‚
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accepted. For this essay‚ I will utilize Ghillyer’s (2008) three-step process to analyze and solve this ethic problem. 2. Consequences 2.1. Social Exclusion Actually‚ it is difficult to deny that homosexual suffer the social exclusion in the recent world. Silver (2007) defined social exclusion as “a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture‚ detaching groups and individuals from social relations institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal‚ normatively prescribed
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Business Ethics “Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interest” Write a case analysis of case #1‚ “Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interest”‚ page 308-317. An analysis paper should address the following: (USE THIS GUIDELINE FOR ALL OF YOUR PAPERS) 1. What are the main facts of the case? (Not all the facts/the main facts) Monsanto is an enormous corporation‚ originating as a chemical company at the turn of the twentieth century. Expansion to India and Africa have been stated
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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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A business cannot claim to be ethical firm if it ignores unethical practices by its suppliers – e.g. * Use of child labour and forced labour * Production in sweatshops * Violation of the basic rights of workers * Ignoring health‚ safety and environmental standards An ethical business has to be concerned with the behaviour of all businesses that operate in the supply chain – i.e. * Suppliers * Contractors * Distributors * Sales agents The two articles below
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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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The Inside Man The film depicts a gang of robbers broke into a bank and seized customers as hostages‚ and threatened the police. "I have planned a perfect bank robbery"‚ the head of the gang said‚ this is a battle of wits‚ not a battle of force . Sure enough‚ the police have not used the "SWAT"‚ "lone hero" insist forcing‚ but got a hostage negotiation experts attempt to rely on rhetoric subdued. However‚ this did not work. Looks like the robbers who rob the bank when they faced the enormous
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NESTLE’S ETHICAL BUSINESS STRUGGLES 1 Nestlé’s Ethical Business Struggles: How the infant formula boycott affected Nestle NESTLE’S ETHICAL BUSINESS STRUGGLES 2 Abstract Nestlé’s marketing tragedy of infant formula in third-world countries in the 1970s caused consumers to boycott the company. As this paper states there are three individuals who were associated with Nestlé’s managing of the boycott. In the 1980s there were other business scandals that involved
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