SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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Unit 38 Assignment 1 P1 - Effects of changes in the economic environment on Burberry. Year 2012 unemployment: Unemployment level: As you can see from the graph the unemployment level has increased from 1.64 million in July 2007 to 2.59 million in July 2012‚ in five years the unemployment level has raised by nearly one million of unemployed people. Inflation rate: The graph shows the inflation rate as you can see on October 2011 the inflation rate increased up to 5.2% which was the highest
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Friendly Advice and Quid Pro Quo? Prior responding to the case study questions‚ I would like to mention two points that relates with employee’s unethical behaviour in an organization. The first is one is‚ the role of leaders in influencing unethical behaviour in the workplace. In most cases‚ employee did unethical act for the following reasons: due to lack of motivation‚ while falling in to ethical dilemma‚ and when they are under frustration…etc. When we discuss about unethical act‚ always it is
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differently. And every stakeholder’s own interest is different. 4. Assume that you just became CEO at Coca-Cola. Outline the strategic steps you would take to remedy the concerns emanating from the company’s board of directors‚ consumers‚ employees‚ business partners‚ governments‚ and the media? First step is to assure the product safety. Second is the employee treatment‚ I will have to make sure that every worker gets the benefit they should get from the company and treat everyone the same. Third step
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virtually eliminated abuse of its glue. In March 1989 legislature of Honduras passed decree 36-89 which banned importing or manufacturing solvent based adhesives that did not contain mustard oil. This situation surely disadvantages for H.B Fuller company business environment ‚ H.B. Fuller subsidiary began lobbied the government to have the law revoked‚ brought some data and showed by adding the mustard seed oil caused; reduce the glue effectiveness‚ the smell would irritating to legitimate user‚ the substance
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Bradley Miller 2/12/15 Seminar of Finance Case Study Ethics in Finance 1. Have I defined the problem correctly and accurately? Answer: The problem was that the WorldCom Company was falling farther and farther into debt and they needed a way out of this hard time. The CEO came to us with a plan to turn the company or in reality to make it look as if the company was headed into the right direction‚ when in fact it was not. The plan was to use other accounts that have holding money in them for other
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the author has introduced some new management/leadership concepts from those successful Christian leaders’ many years of experience‚ in order to help other Christian managers to learn. I think this is a very interesting book and fresh view for business student‚ especially for unchristian students. Since I came from China that Christian is not very popular in there‚ I am not familiar with this religion. So there are many management ideas in the book make me very interesting in. For instance‚ in
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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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CASE 1:- I) Yes‚ I think the suspension was fair. Over a period of time‚ Joan was warned several times abouther excessive absenteeism‚ both verbally and in writing‚ but she did almost nothing about resolving the problem. Joan hasn’t shown an inclination to look for alternate solutions and she just expects GreatAmerican Market to put up with her excessive absenteeism‚ and the loss in productivity that comeswith it. It appears to me that only a suspension would drive the point hard in this case
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responsibility by taking steps to follow guidelines‚ minimize its environmental “footprint”‚ and became involved with the community. This is important to the company because ethical companies do better in the long run. Customers feel good about bringing business to social responsible companies and employees feel good about working there and in turn employees provide better customer service. 2. Is Starbucks unique being to provide a high level of benefits to its employees? Starbucks is unique in being
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