Different social‚ professional and cultural context may effect relationships and the way people communicate because of a lack of understanding into one another’s back ground and culture. This could be through their race‚ religion‚ and ethnicity or where they come from. Each one of these can have similar or different ways to communicate. Social background It has been suggested by Laing and Chazan in fontang 1984 that some children grow up within environmental and social circumstances which may
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In recent times‚ there has been huge concern on the issue of ethical leadership in the corporate world. Researchers have increasingly shifted their attention towards identifying what could be driving costly unethical behaviour in organizations. Organizations leadership stresses short-term result while disregarding the long-term implications of their actions. The result has been scandals and accounting frauds. Companies such as Enron‚ WorldCom (Knights and O’Leary‚ 2005)‚ and Nortel executives (manipulating
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source for the decline in productivity which has resulted in no real answers as to what is best way forward. Despite being a simple concepts there is no unique measure of productivity growth being the three most important the demographic‚ economic and social which are faced over the decade‚ nevertheless the decline over the last decade broadly in line with the productivity performance. The labour productivity growth over the period of 1989 -90 to 2002 -03 had an average of around 2.0 per cent but slowed
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make additional acquisitions‚ support its $30 billion debt‚ as well as allow executives to cash in on their stock options. The final reason why people participate in unethical behavior is because the company culture puts the bottom line ahead of ethical behavior. This is exactly what happened at Enron. Enron had a program called “rank and yank.” In the “rank and yank” process your performance is evaluated yearly and if you are ranked the 15-20 percent lowest ranking employees you are let go or encouraged
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Jaime Nightingale Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Apple and Nike Corporate Responsibility Acts In the corporate world‚ companies must act responsibly in ways that go beyond the general goal of making money. Social and Ethical responsibility has grown from years before and has became a priority to growing companies in America. Meaning that the company must follow general rules such as consider broad impacts of their decisions and who they’re going to offend and that the corporation must
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A] social cultural environment: Social and cultural aspects of a society form its very nature. As "culture" is the essence of a society‚ this chapter will concentrate on a discussion of it only. Of all the so called "environmental uncontrollables"‚ culture‚ or at least the study of it‚ is one of the most difficult to comprehend‚ take account of and harness to advantage. This is particularly so when the product or service is "culture bound". Such products and services include those which are
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Miguel Flores Checkpoint: Business Organization A sole proprietorship is a business that is owned by one person only. That one person is the sole owner and makes all decisions on their own. Most sole proprietorships are small business likes restaurants‚ markets‚ and liquor stores. The owner must have knowledgeable business experience or else his business will not be profitable. Most of this shops end up closing up after a couple of years because the sole owner must take in all the losses
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Social Organization of the Tainos The Tainos were a gentle and humble people with a very strong social organization. They would settle relatively close to the coast‚ as to be hidden but to also see incoming people. A Taino settlement could be a small or as complex chiefdom; it was constructed in such a way that the cacique’s (the chief’s) residence was situated at the centre‚ with the general population around it. His house consisted of his entire family. The houses of the general population also
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The first premise is certainly false. “If we (everyone) minded her own business‚ and tended to their own needs‚ then everyone would be better off.” This premise‚ as it is‚ cannot hold up the self-reliance argument let alone ethical egoism. If John‚ an elderly man‚ was walking in the park and had a fall‚ would he be better off if Jill‚ a bystander‚ just continued on her way? She was running late to work and could easily tend to her own needs leaving John on the ground moaning in pain. The second
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promote‚ For example‚ Harvard Business School has just announced that they will go out of its way to include women in its case studies‚ which are used in business-school classrooms around the world. In other words‚ schools and businesses‚ in order to stay out of trouble‚ are taking the easy way out‚ quotas. (Kole‚ MacDonald.1997.1) Although some women and minorities are hired to fill quotas‚ the majority of them are needed to create a cultural diverse workplace. Cultural Diversity can have a positive
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