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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Is Third World Immigration a Threat to America’s Way of Life? Many people from third world countries leave to seek a better life for them and most of all their children. They can be moving away from war‚ religious‚ gender‚ economic‚ and educational oppression. America was developed off immigration and it was and still is the land off freedom and opportunity. People from third world countries look to the United States as a light of hope. What is really the American way of life? To me that would just
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affiliations. They face the cultural policy challenges of globalization and develop innovative concepts for a world made more human through mutual understanding‚ where cultural diversity is seen as an asset. As far as the international cultural corporation is concerned the dialogue between the Muslim and
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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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spring coffee The idea of business and evolution of capitalism has shown that there is a much greater purpose than solely making profits through B-Corporations. According to Michael R. Deskins‚ “A B Corp is one in which corporations can create benefit for both society at large and corporate stakeholders” (Deskins‚ 1) B Lab founder‚ Jay Cohen‚ and co-founder‚ Andrew Kassoy‚ both cover a very similar presentation discussing what B Corporations are for the future of business‚ thus differentiating their
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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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The term "business ethics" is used in a lot of different ways. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics (Broni‚ 2010) that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment (Solomon‚ 1991). It applies to all aspects of business conduct (Baumhart‚ 1968; Ferell - Fraedrich‚ 1997; Singer‚ 1991) and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and business organizations as a whole (Bernard‚ 1972; Donaldson‚ 1982:36). Applied ethics is a field of
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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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A STUDY ON "CORRUPTION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES": Context Bangladesh Partha Pradip Sarkar ID # 3-07-11-017 MBA Evening Program Department of Management Studies University of Dhaka March 2008 Executive Summary T he main objective of this study was to identify the sources and patterns of corruption in the Health Sector in Bangladesh and to analyze the causes and impacts of these corruptions. This paper describes important areas of vulnerability to corruption
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Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World Where the Major factors leading to the first wave of decolonization in the 1950’s and 60’s Contents Page Introduction 2 History and origin of Decolonization 3 The Major factors leading to the first wave of 4 Decolonization in the 1950’s and 60’s Conclusion Bibliography
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