A Business Ethical Duty: Social Responsibility Joe McClendon Western Governors University A community business has a social responsibility to its local community‚ its employees have an ethical duty their employer‚ and management has business responsibility to act in the best interest of stakeholders. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. The company is struggling internally with ethical integrity and social responsibility. Company Q’s ethical
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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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be discussing Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) using Anglo-American and Primark case studies as examples. First‚ I will discuss what is meant by ethical business behavior. Second‚ I will discuss how Anglo-American and Primark apply ethics into their business practices. Third‚ I will discuss what the costs and benefits are to an organization when they behave ethically. Finally‚ I will choose one component from Svennson & Woods’ model from “A Model of Business Ethics”‚ and
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1200 words about the HIV/AIDS problem in your country. You must cover the following points: 1. The size of the problem: How many people are infected? Which are the key population groups that are affected? What are the main routes of transmission? 2. Describe the cultural/social norms in your country and how they impact on the developing situation 3. How do you think that the knowledge above might be used to tackle this problem and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS? WORD COUNT: 898 HIV
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? When people doing business‚ they may use different ethical standards other than what we use in daily life. The majority businessmen manage their business legally; however‚ not all legal business is ethical. I do not think that business bluffing is ethical. I will provide three arguments in following paragraphs which are based on theories of groupthink‚ consequentialist and duties to support my position. First of all‚ according to the theory of duties
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Individuals who are engaged in international business transactions have reported a cultural component to ethics. You are working on opening a branch of a food distribution operation in a foreign country‚ and a local official suggests that a little cash would help your company get started. Research international business and ethical standards‚ and answer the following questions: Q 1. In what ways can culture affect ethical standards and shape business behavior? A. In a way that some countries ethics
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Ethical Situations in Business Competency 310.2.1: Ethical Issues in Business Business Management / October 2012 Abstract This essay examines the ethical and socially responsible courses of action in a given business situation. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. They have recently closed a couple of stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city‚ reportedly because these two stores were consistently losing money. After years of requests from
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Why is advertising an ethical problem? If it is‚ it is because it is often intrusive‚ deceptive‚ or manipulative -- or‚ at least‚ this is what people say about it. Another problem is the money and resources devoted to advertising; billions are spent each year (around $500 billion in fact) that‚ perhaps‚ could go to education‚ health care‚ research‚ reforestation‚ or other worthy causes. We’ll come back to this‚ but first we look at the problem of deception. Could argue that it distorts
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FIRM CORPORATE ETHICS POLICY ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS ADOPTED MAY 2012 The Sanctum of Questions and Answers Consulting Firm exists wholly to provide consultative services to non-profit organizations that provide philanthropic solutions to less fortunate individuals. The CEO‚ CFO and COO of SQA Consulting stand firm in our belief that the non-profit organizations that we consult for commissioned our services because of our willingness to conduct our business in a way that provides open-ended
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Southwest Airline Changes When it is time to plan a vacation or plan for holiday we all go and search to see which airfare is the cheapest. Southwest Airlines is known for their amazing low prices and great customer service. Southwest since the late 1980’s it has led the airlines industry has having the lowest complaint ratio. If anyone has ever taken a flight at Southwest Airlines you can remember getting a boarding pass to load the plan in three groups. Group A‚ B or C. This is made this airline
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