1. • In your opinion‚ is “bribing” unethical & illegal or just a cost of doing business? Discuss this in light of Siemens’ bribery scandal. We believe that bribing is unethical because it takes away the fairness of a business transaction between bidders of a contract. Bribing also has a negative impact on competition because it allows for oligopolies and monopolies to emerge in an industry due to smaller competitors being unable to financially compete with the amount of the bribes. This in
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Scandal: a disgraceful action with damage to reputation (Google). Though Canada may be a proud nation‚ much of the dark past is deeply buried. One of the many scandals of Canada includes forcing the Chinese to pay head taxes reveal Canada’s racist and unjust past. There is a significant relationship between the increasing amount of head taxes and the decreasing Chinese population in Canada. With the Gold Rush in the 1860s‚ many Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to search for a fortune of their
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a person as a means to an end‚ which therefore violates the categorical imperative. Therefore‚ the doctor would not be morally justified in killing the patient. The ethical philosophy of Kantianism can be directly applied to the Volkswagen (VW) scandal case study. When referring
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Duke ’s MBAs Cheating Scandal While students are overwhelmed with handbooks on plagiarism‚ school honor codes when they entering a university‚ cheatings are rampantly detected in university environment. Admittedly‚ plagiarism and cheating should be seriously punished. However‚ there do exist controversial cases where some assert that the cases are not considered cheatings‚ the others argue that they should be considered cheatings. An article named "Duke MBAs Fail Ethics Test" by Alison Damast
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Case One: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG Organization and Industry Overview: The case‚ “The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG‚” underscores how employee involvement with unethical behavior can cause irrevocable damage to a company’s reputation and ultimately their profitability and success. Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske founded Siemens AG in 1847 in Munich‚ Germany as a manufacturer of telegraphic systems. Over the next 150+ years‚ the company grew rapidly expanding operations in
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I would highly recommend that Penn State create a crisis management plan for future scandals or outbreaks involving the University. While no one could have prepared for the Sandusky scandal‚ having a list of crisis team members and contact information may have kept Paterno from releasing his own statements. Also in creating a plan in advance could help evaluate impact better‚ and take
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Edger Allen Poe’s poem "The Bells" is a poem where the author’s intention is for the reader to hear it. The poem illustrates four bells; sleigh bells‚ church bells‚ warning bells‚ and funeral bells. The four bells represent life‚ marriage‚ war‚ and death. Poe illustrates the moods that come with the sounds of these four bells and what they represent with the use of sound devices such as assonance. In the first stanza Poe‚ illustrates sleigh bells‚ which are usually associated with wintertime and
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The Watergate scandal was the first event that sparked the issue of bribery. It all became public when on June 17‚ 1972‚ burglars were taken into custody in the Watergate building‚ inside the office of the Democratic National Committee. The burglars were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign‚ and they had been caught while trying to take secret documents and wiretap cellular devices. People still don’t know if Nixon was involved or knew of the dilemma before it was brought up
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As we stumbled into the line of the Taco Bell off of 41‚ I popped an Altoid in my mouth‚ hiding the vigorous scent of Fireball Whiskey. Next to me‚ our safety is rocking back and forth as a sweat trickled down his forehead. The four of us stepped into line. The lady in front of me flinched as I overstepped and slightly crushed the corner of her clogs and her big toe. Leisurely‚ I backed out of line‚ to complete my task‚ returning moments later. Time froze in anticipation. Tap. Tap. Tap. My foot
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Vaccines to Fight Cancer A vaccine is a very common way of building up the immune system to fight infection. Using vaccines to fight breast cancer is relatively new‚ however‚ and still considered experimental. A vaccine for breast cancer may consist of an antigen cocktail of weakened or essentially dead elements of breast cancer cells that could stimulate an antibody response. The cancer vaccine might be prepared from your own deactivated cancer cells‚ or from extracts of breast cancer cells cultivated
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