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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are stakeholders? • stockholders • employees • customers • managers • supplies • local community According to Friedman‚ can a business do anything in the quest for profits? • No‚ it must not be deceptive or fraudulent Who is Theodore Levitt? • Former professor of marketing at Harvard B-School‚ Ph.D. in economics‚ prolific writer‚ editor of Harvard Business Review‚ coined the term "globalization" has been referred to as the father of modern marketing What is meant by a "nonconsequentialist
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General has declared "epidemic‚" and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald ’s on behalf of two overweight girls‚ who‚ it was alleged‚ became obese as a result of eating McDonald ’s food [Pelman v. McDonald ’s Corp.‚ 237 F. Supp. 2d 512].[3] Spurlock points out that although the lawsuit against McDonald ’s failed (and subsequently many state legislatures have legislated against product liability actions against producers and distributors of "fast food")‚ much of the same criticism leveled
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Mary L Weed Module 2 Written Assignment Business Ethics SUNY Empire State Summer 2010 Answer the following questions: 1. Shaw and Barry distinguish two different forms of utilitarianism. What are these two forms? Briefly describe each. Act and Rule Unitarianism is the two forms that Shaw and Barry discuss. Act utilitarianism is the belief that it is the right action that brings the greatest contentment to the greatest number of people. It is an idea that believes that the morality
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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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MGT3201 / 3231: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND GRADING STRUCTURE Individual Case Study (20%) This assessment criteria and grading structure is used as the: 1. general guidelines for marking written coursework‚ and 2. feedback to the students for future improvement. | |Content |Analysis |Evidence of Reflection |Achievement of Learning | | | | | |Outcomes
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3.3.3 Individual assignment 3: case: “Unreliable”Table of contents: Phase 1‚2‚3 of the ethical cycle: Moral problem statement Problem analysis Options for action Phase 4 of the ethical cycle: Intuition Utilitarianism Bentham Mill Kantiism Deontology (Kant) Description of the case: “Marta Malasobras is unreliable” Marta Malasobras is unreliable. She has arrived late to work almost every day. Her co-workers are quite angry about this and discuss their
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Business Ethics Gender Discrimination The evolving role of women in the workplace is not readily accepted in society. Despite the illegality of gender discrimination‚ women are being discriminated against in hiring practices‚ advancement opportunities‚ and income in the workplace. In the case study given to us‚ we were asked to suggest best possible ways to control or eliminate gender discrimination. To begin with we started to root causes of discrimination‚ most commonly known to us. One of
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mold of Chicano muralist that just because they were Chicanos why did they have to paint murals‚ this action took place at LACMA. 2. The artist to this empty shoebox is Gabriel Orozco‚ he is drawing attention to the commercialism if the art world. 3. The artist of Prometheus is Jose Clemente Orozco; this mural is located in Frary Dining Hall at Pomona College in Claremont‚ Ca. 4. The architect is Luis Barragan the approximate date was in 1947‚ his style is modern style architecture but making it
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Module 3 Test: Chapter 3 Question 1 1. In order to minimize backlash by majority males against diversity efforts‚ trainers and managers should a) emphasize that employees are free to believe whatever they wish‚ but they must behave with respect toward all the individuals with whom their work brings them into contact. b) terminate the worst of the discontented majority males‚ as their attitudes will be difficult to change and will poison the climate of the organization. c) stress that
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