BP’s Code of Ethics: Our Commitment to Integrity A company’s code of ethics is a written set of guidelines issued by an organization to its workers and management to help them conduct their actions in accordance with its primary values and ethical standards. A code of ethics is essential for the professional functioning of a business. I have chosen to analyze BP’s code of ethics. BP’s code of ethics main statement is as follows “The BP code of conduct stands for a fundamental BP commitment
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Organization http://org.sagepub.com/ Corporate Codes of Ethics and the Bending of Moral Space Tommy Jensen‚ Johan Sandström and Sven Helin Organization 2009 16: 529 DOI: 10.1177/1350508409104507 The online version of this article can be found at: http://org.sagepub.com/content/16/4/529 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Organization can be found at: Email Alerts: http://org.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://org.sagepub
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Evaluation of a Business Code of Ethics Phillip Voliva PHL/323 October 13‚ 2014 Amy Peterson Evaluation of a Business Code of Ethics AutoZone‚ founded by J.R. "Pitt" Hyde III in Forrest City‚ Arkansas on July 4‚ 1979 was originally called Auto Shack. The first Auto Shack store manager was a man named Doc Crain. Sales totaled $300 on the first day of business. In 1986‚ Auto Shack became a freestanding company with Pitt serving as its first Chairman and CEO. AutoZone’s mission statement revolves
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Ethics Reflection Paper STR/581 July 26‚ 2010 University of Phoenix Ethics Reflection Paper Before WorldCom and Enron‚ many organizations unconditionally placed social and ethical responsibility with administrative legal and compliance obligations‚ regulations and rules. Today‚ a company’s ethical behavior is vital to the success of the company. Consumers not only expect but demand that a company is visible in their practices and are held accountable for their actions; be it
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The NEA Codes of Ethics and Professional Conduct have a set of guidelines for educators to follow. This guideline helps create a safe‚ fair and effective learning environment for children. Now‚ many of these guidelines would seem obvious; however‚ others one might not consider. In addition‚ the Florida Depart of Education provides many valuable resources for an educator. The FLDOE‚ NEA Codes of Ethics and the Principles of Professional Conduct for the Education Profession provides information that
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Personal Ethics Development Paper Personal Ethics Development Paper At birth we are essentially a bare slate. At this time in our lives‚ we have learned nothing. Our only ability is to cry when we require nourishment or the need for individual vigilance and solace arises. Until certain things are compulsory we are content to lie there and watch the world rotate around us. Throughout life we evolve standards founded on what we have learned or experienced as we develop. The aim of evolving
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teacher deal with the offending student (Toosi‚ 2004). Universities have to lay down rules and punishments for any academic misconduct and be willing to follow through with their policies. Students and faculty members should be presented with a Code of Ethics that goes into detail of what is considered plagiarism and the punishments if one is caught. The teacher should not have to be the ones to carry out the investigations or hand out the punishments. Professors should also not be criticized or
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Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW). There are specific parts of the NASW code of Ethics that social worker who are working with children with intellectual disabilities should be especially cognizant of. One ethics principle that is important to social workers’ who with children with intellectual disabilities is social justice (National Association of Social Workers [NASW]‚ 2008). The ethical principle for social justice stated by the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics declares that
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Is there such a thing as a justified killing? Is all murder morally wrong? According to the bible one shall not kill‚ but that is a very vague statement. Its basically saying that no matter what killing is bad. Even if ones life may be threatened one shall not kill. Some would say yes it is wrong to kill someone no matter what. It is a sin to take ones life and with that should never be done. Well that is true‚ no one should go out and kill people for fun or anything like that. But if someone is
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References: 1.Mike‚ Markel. Technical Communication‚ eight edition 2.Mann & Roberts. Smith and Roberson “Business Law”‚ 13th edition. 3.Lawrence‚ M Hinman. Ethics‚ A pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory. 2nd Ed. 4.United States Copyright Office‚ www.Copyright.Gov 5.The Copyright Act of 1976 (amended 1994)
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