HND Business Ethics: Unit 45 Edexcel Assessment Brief Front Sheet Qualification Unit number and title HND Business Unit 45: Business Ethics Student name Assessor name Tracy Mpofu Date issued Completion date Submitted on See tasks Unit Aim To introduce learners to the concept of business ethics and to examine its relevance when considering business objectives and responsibilities. Learning Outcome 1. Understand different ethical perspectives
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B usiness ethics and tourism: from m icro to macro perspectives A lf H Walle Travel and Tourism Program‚ University of Nebraska‚ West Center C226‚ Kearney‚ NE 68849‚ USA Business ethics is a complex field which the tourism industry must understand. In addition‚ t ourism is a unique industry; although general concepts of business ethics are often useful‚ t ourism transcends mainstream business and must be evaluated accordingly. By forming alliances with subdisciplines of business which parallel
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conflict (Trevino & Nelson‚ 2006). To define business ethics and to explain three ethical issues with today’s business environments that impact the communities and organizations that we‚ live and work in can be overwhelming. But one can do this by thinking about how ethical behavior affects the decisions in everyday life in the community that they live in or the organization that they work in. According to Trevino and Nelson (2006) the definition of ethics is the set of moral principles and values
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Business ethics is a study of moral standards and how these apply to the social systems and organisations through which modern societies produce and distribute goods and services and to the behaviours of the people who work within these organisations. Business ethics‚ in other words‚ is a form of applied ethics. It not only includes the analysis of moral norms and moral values but also attempts to apply the conclusions of these analyses to that assortment of institutions‚ organisations‚ activities
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Peter Drucker‚ in his paper What is “business ethics”? (1981)‚ makes the argument that ethics‚ as the “in” subject‚ is defined as “one set of rules of morality which governs individual behavior and that it applies to everyone alike”. The reason for the insistence on one set of rules is that‚ otherwise‚ only the powerful‚ the strong and the successful will gain exceptions. According to this paper‚ ’business ethics’ implies that acts that were done by an average person are not immoral or illegal
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seventy countries and territories. The group was started by Marcus Samuel‚ a shopkeeper who was selling sea shells. In 1833‚ Marcus expanded his business into an importing and exporting business. At this time the business was run by brothers Marcus Samuel Junior and Sam. It was during a trip to Japan that Marcus became interested in the oil exporting business then based in Baku‚ Russia (Barth‚ 2003). The company grew to global company that we have today. The company’s mission statement is “to enhance
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.1 Define “ethics” as described in our textbook: Ethics refers to our efforts to figure out what we should do and how we should live. It involves the challenge of figuring out how to justify our behavior both to ourselves and others. 3 Who are the most important stakeholders in the following examples in our textbook? 1. Tylenol : Doctors‚ nurses‚ mothers‚ fathers and children. 2. Novo Nordisk : People with diabetes 3. GE Healthcare in India: Heath care providers 4. Merck:
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Journal of Business Ethics (2006) 64: 101–116 DOI 10.1007/s10551-005-3327-x Ó Springer 2006 The Business of Ethics and Gender A. Catherine McCabe Rhea Ingram Mary Conway Dato-on ABSTRACT. Unethical decision-making behavior within organizations has received increasing attention over the past ten years. As a result‚ a plethora of studies have examined the relationship between gender and business ethics. However‚ these studies report conflicting results as to whether or not men and women
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Course: Business Ethics Questions: Why are authors criticizing business schools? Do you agree or not agree their views? Why? They are criticizing business schools(specially top business schools) because authors think that they do not give enough importance to ethics and they haven’t changed themselves for a long time. Instead of teaching ethics in business‚ they say that these schools teach only “How to become successful business/finance person?” to potential leaders. They claim that ethics
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Table of content Introduction We chose to analyze the company Shell Global (Multinational)‚ which had operations running all over the globe and even now‚ with the 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
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