Running Head: Franciscan Values Franciscan Values Cardinal Stritch University Ethics and Social Responsibility for Business Leaders CMB 620 January 8‚ 2012 This paper will compare the Franciscan Values with Kohlberg’s Levels. Cardinal Stritch University is a Catholic Institution of higher education. Cardinal Stritch was found and is sponsored by congregation if the Sister of St. Francis of Assisi. The Franciscan Values are Creating a Caring Community‚ Showing Compassion‚ Reverencing
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Ethics in Business From a business perspective‚ working under government contracts can be a very lucrative proposition. In general‚ a stream of orders keep coming in‚ revenue increases and the company grows in the aggregate. The obvious downfalls to working in this manner is both higher quality expected as well as the extensive research and documentation required for government contracts. If a part fails to perform correctly it can cause minor glitches as well as problems that can carry serious
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MBL926S BUSINESS ETHICS ASSIGNMENT 2 PREPARED BY STUDY GROUP CEN011A FOR MR MAHARAJ STUDY GROUP MEMBERS - CEN011A NAME STUDENT NUMBER CONTRIBUTION Arnold Lukoto 73026379 100% Cicelia Van Rooi 71119183 100% Dingaan Masango 32700113 100% Gerardt Viljoen 72997737 100% Hansie Wessels 72903902 100% Hennie van Tonder 72999055 100% Khunou Kgame 72781238 100% Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi 72538732 100% Terence Israel 72887435
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Introduction Precisely define the concept of "ethics" is quite difficult. In a general sense ethics - a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of a person or group of people and determining the positive and negative assessments of their thoughts and actions. Ethics associated with inner values‚ and they in its turn are part of the corporate culture and influence on decision making‚ determine their social validity within the environment. Ethical problem arises when the actions of an
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ETH 501: Business Ethics and Deontology The key ethical utilitarian ethical problem for the supplier/transistor company in this case is the position of hindering medical advancement and possibly ending more lives due to fear caused from the lives lost to that point with the pacemakers. The supplier had to decide whether it would be for the greater good to continue to supply the transistors. “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every
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Amtrak’s Case Study LS312: Ethics and the Legal Environment Unit 4: Assignment Kaplan University Professor Bill Mulherin January 3‚ 2013 Amtrak’s Case Study Corporate social responsibility can create big problems if corporations do not handle difficult situations properly‚ especially when there are accidents involved. According to the eGuide to Ethics and the Legal Environment chapter 2‚ “CSR is a business practice that demands that business organizations look to the effect their decisions
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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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Assignment on Business Ethics Instructions: 1. Write the answers of the questions of this assignment in your own legible handwriting. 2. No assignment will be accepted if it is in the form of typed print out. 3. Answers of each student should be in their own perspectives or in their own experiences of marketing arena. 4. Q. no.1‚2 &3 are compulsory and solve any one from the remaining questions. Deadline for submission- 9 March 2014 Marks-15 (Fifteen) Q.1. What is business ethics ? Describe
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Business Ethics and Wealth Creation: Conceptual Clarifications and Research Questions Introduction Three considerations led me to the choice and investigation of this topic of business ethics and wealth creation. In his fascinating and powerful historical account “why some [nations] are so rich and some so poor‚” David Landes (1999) scrutinizes the winners and losers in the process of wealth creation over the last 50 years. On the winners’ side‚ in addition to “the thirty wonderful years from
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the need for ethical theories. (3) Ans. Ethical theories represent the grand ideas on which guiding principles are based. They attempt to be coherent and systematic‚ striving to answer the fundamental practical ethical questions: 1.What ought I do? 2. How ought I to live? Ethical theories are needed for a number of purposes. They are the foundations of ethical analysis because they are the viewpoints from which guidance can be obtained along the pathway to a decision. The aim of ethical theory is to
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