A Business Ethical Duty: Social Responsibility Joe McClendon Western Governors University A community business has a social responsibility to its local community‚ its employees have an ethical duty their employer‚ and management has business responsibility to act in the best interest of stakeholders. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. The company is struggling internally with ethical integrity and social responsibility. Company Q’s ethical
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Semester 1‚ 2010/2011 CBEB3101 Business Ethics Quiz 1 26 August 2010 SUGGESTED ANSWERS True/False Questions: Circle the correct answer. 1. Ethically responsible leaders within any business promote ethics through personal behaviour and thoughts alone. False 2. Talking about business’s social responsibilities is to be concerned with society’s interests that bind business’s behaviour. True 3. Rawl’s theory of social justice is the ethical principle that is based on the foundations
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71203 Business Ethics Assignment 1 Drawing on ethical theory to critique a claim. Businesses putting something back into the local community... ...Morally obligatory - or not? Utilitarian and Kantian Moral Theory Viewpoints Tanya Lundie 9118692 27 March 2009 Rainbow (2002) describes ethical theories as being “...the foundations of ethical analysis...” because they are viewpoints from which guidance can be obtained in the interests of determining “...what counts as acting ethically...” (The
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Wal-Mart Unethical Business Practices - Wal-Mart‚ the big giant‚ the place where a lot of people usually do their shopping for the low prices and the variety of products were founded by Sam Walton. Walton was an entrepreneur with an innovative vision started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. In fact‚ Wal-Mart is considered to be the biggest company in the U.S. and it has stores worldwide. According to PBS‚ “Wal-Mart employs more people than any
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financial drawbacks‚ is still growing. Shell Global started business back in 1833 and has gone through a lot of hardships but also many golden periods‚ of which many will be mentioned in this report as some of them concern ethical issues. In 1958 Nigeria became one of the largest oil producers for the Shell Group‚ where Shell has been accused of many human rights violations especially in the Niger Delta area. Their corporate and ethical image was heavily damaged and they soon realized they needed
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------------------------------------------------- Student Nurses’ Perception on the Caring Attributes of their Clinical Instructors ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- A Synthesis Paper ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS ETHICAL AND UNETHICAL HACKING Acknowledgement We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher‚ Professor Supriya Matthew who gave us the golden opportunity to do
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“Business research is defined as a systematic inquiry that provides information to guide managerial decisions. It is the process of planning‚ acquiring‚ analyzing‚ and disseminating relevant data‚ information‚ and insights to decisions makers in ways that mobilize the organization to take appropriate actions that maximize performance.” (Cooper & Schindler‚ 2011‚ p. 5) “Ethics is the concepts and fundamental principles of decent human conduct. It includes study of universal values such as the essential
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Ethics Paper As we have discussed the ethical issued related to production and distribution of wine‚ we will now focus on the ethical issues relating to the consumption of wine. The consumption of wine in U.S. has been on the rise since last fifteen years. The U.S. ranks 34th in wine consuming nations with wine consumption of 7.69 liters per capita per annum. The consumption of wine in 1994 was 404 million gallons which increased to 658 million gallons in the year 2008. These figures show the
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Business Ethics Case Shirley Jones was Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family. Ethical Case 3.4 Within this case little three year old Joshua was mailed an offer by times magazine. Within the see through window of the envelope there was an offer stating that if the recipient only opened that letter that they would receive a free calculator watch. After his mother opened the envelope and read further it seemed that not only opening the envelope but purchasing the magazine was required
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