Officer is Ron Carpenter now in his late-sixties. His wife Mrs. Emelia Carpenter‚ being an aggressive business woman and somewhat younger than her husband‚ now effectively runs the company. Ron Carpenter is affectionately known to all as "Woody" and so the company is generally known as "Woody’s". Woody‚ after an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker‚ started his small furniture manufacturing business back in 1954 and he and his wife moved to their present location in 1959. The company quickly gained a
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Ethics and Environment Case Study Project Learning Team C Lynette Barnhart‚ Russell Cortez‚ Eric Hiram‚ Domoniqué Shaw SCI/362 March 28‚ 2011 Howard Schmidt‚ M.S.‚ M.B.A. Ethics and Environment Case Study Project When air pollution is mentioned‚ many think of the city Los Angeles. However‚ Beijing China and Mexico City have become well known for air pollution‚ with Beijing topping the list of worst air quality in the world (Raven‚ Berg‚ & Hassenzahl. 2010). At the same
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Individual Business Ethics Case Analysis [Women and Health Insurance] [Casanav Simmons] MBA 740: Legal & Ethical Issues in Business Professor: Dr. Joseph A. Petrick 1. Who are the stakeholders involved and how severely are they impacted? Who is harmed and by how much? a. Market Stakeholders: (1) Women: They are forced to pay higher premiums‚ then men (high impact); (2) Men: will be negatively affected by the rate because it would be subsidized if the women’s
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Utilitarianism and Business Ethics Utilitarianism is a normative‚ consequentialist‚ empirical philosophy which links the idea of a good action to one which promotes maximum pleasure or happiness‚ found by adding up costs and benefits (or pains and pleasures). It has two classic formulations - Bentham’s hedonistic (pleasure-based) act utilitarianism and Mill’s eudaimonistic (happiness-based) rule utilitarianism. In this article we make some preliminary comments on Bentham and Mill before analysing
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Utilitarianism is concerned about the results of an action‚ while Kantian ethics is focused about the moral duties‚ Virtue ethics on the other hand place an emphasis on the development of a good moral character. Unlike the first two ethical theories‚ virtue ethics is not a theory about what makes an action right. It answers the question‚ “What kind of individual should I be?” and “What kind of characters are necessary to live a virtuous life? Virtue ethics can be tracked back from the ancient Greek
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theory of Utilitarianism The theory of Utilitarianism takes its name from the Latin word Utilis‚ meaning ‘useful’. It was first developed by Jeremy Bentham‚ a philosopher and legal theorist of the 18th century. Bentham sought to produce a modern and rational approach to morality which would suit the changing society of the industrial age. This was also the era of the French and American Revolutions‚ and of the Enlightenment‚ so orthodox morality was challenged on many fronts. Utilitarianism may be
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Peter Nicholson wishes to convert the factory in the north east to production of the electric taxi. Using data in Appendix C‚ Table 1‚ calculate payback period and the average rate of return. (8 marks) Peter Nicholson proposes to remove two management levels from the organisational structure and to encourage greater empowerment of the workforce. Do you think that this is a good idea? Justify your view. (18 marks) I believe that delayering the organisational structure by two
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Chapter 3‚ Chapter Problem 7 Part A – Vo v. City of Garden Grove The basis in the case of Vo v. City of Garden Grove lies within the debate of what is more important the right of free speech‚ which is given to all American’s as a right under Article 1 in the Constitutional Amendments‚ or safety of those using the internet cafes in question. Personal safety is not mentioned in the constitution‚ but as The United State of America’s second President‚ John Adams‚ said in 1798‚ “our constitution was
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or ‘right’ answer” (Ghillyer‚ 2008‚ p9). In other words‚ it is difficult to offer a specific answer of whether homosexual relationship should be 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
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SAE220 Business and legal studies Lesson 6 Overview 2 Revision § Recap of week 5 and homework 5 § Business Functions: Human Resources § Cash Flow‚ Profit & Loss‚ Balance Sheet § plans and Projections § Sales forecasting § Book keeping and account management § Calculating staffing costs § Homework 6 revision 4 Business Plan – Introduction § Exercise 1 § Seminar presentations § Publicity and PR | Gabriel / Wadah § Direct Marketing | Jack / Nour § Advertising
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