The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Trimester 1‚ 2013 71203 Business Ethics Assignment 1 Weighting: This assignment is worth 35% of your final mark. Due date: Your completed assignment must reach the Open Polytechnic by Tuesday‚ 2 April 2013. Instructions 1. This assignment is based on the course material and readings in Module 1. You should draw on a topic in a later module only if it is relevant to the situation you choose for Part B of the assignment. Complete Part A and Part B‚ following
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in Trimester 1‚ 2010 2. How effective has Mattel been at encouraging ethical and legal conduct by its manufacturers? What changes and additions would you make to the company’s Global Manufacturing Principles? ____________________________________________________________ __ ‘Good ethics is good business and bad ethics is bad business are connected’ (Burton & Goldsby 2010). Mattel has been quite effective at encouraging ethical and legal conduct. It has developed its Global Manufacturing Principles
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What factors influence Dawn’s options? 2. The main factors that will influence Dawn’s options are the possiblity of the loss of productivity and a lower moral within the hospital. In the past when they tried to break the union the nurse’s prouctivity slowed. This could in turn cause a drop in the quality of care that is given to the patients. The lower quality of care there is the greater chance things could happen and lawsuits being filed againsts the hospital. Identify the ethival
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Ethics and moral obligations are issues we all encounter at one time or another. In the professional setting‚ all people should act in a manner that would uphold the good of society. To be ethical‚ one has to determine their obligations‚ moral ideas‚ and moral philosophy (Boatright‚ p. 19‚ 2009). The case analysis involving Jacob Franklin was a perfect example of how an individual can face the dilemma of doing what is right or wrong. Businesses have their own code of ethics‚ and the employees
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Business Ethics and Sustainability Ethics” are the regulations of actions recognized in respect to a particular set of human actions or a particular group‚ civilization‚ etc. In other words ‘Ethics rationalizes morality to produce ethical theory that can be applied to any situation’ (Crane and Matten 2010‚ p. 8). The imperatives of usual managerial performance are so compelling that there is little time or proclivity to deflect attention to the moral content of organizational decision-making
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What is ethics? Ethics can be defined as a set of principles used by an individual to govern his or her decisions in an effort to ensure fairness and equality. Business ethics‚ as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the applied ethics discipline that addresses the moral features of commercial activity. The same source also gives a history of business ethics which states that the concept as an academic principle is relatively young-only about forty years old; but in general is as
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example of how greed and the desire for success can transform into unethical behavior. Good ethics in business would be to compete fairly and honestly‚ to communicate truthfully and to not cause harm to others. These are things that Enron did not seem to display‚ which led to Enron’s operations file for bankruptcy in 2001. Enron’s scandal has become one of the most talked about forms of unethical business behaviors. The company’s collapse resulted from the disclosure that it had reported false profits
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Ethics Question: Some argue that aggressively investing in emerging economies is not only economically beneficial‚ but also highly ethical because it may potentially lift many people out of poverty. However‚ others caution that in the absence of reasonable hopes of decent profits‚ rushing to emerging economies is reckless. How would you participate in this debate? As a free-market economic skeptic‚ prior to my readings‚ I felt that investing in emerging markets is more self serving and exploitative
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Issues Business Ethics and Values Social & Legal Issues Ethics • Greek word: Ethos that means both an individual’s character and a community culture. • Business ethics involves adhering to legal‚ regulatory‚ professional and company standards‚ keeping promises and commitments and abiding by general principles like fairness‚ honesty and respect Social & Legal Issues Business Ethics The application of general ethical concepts to the unique situations confronted in business. It asks
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Chain which discussed the Apple’s factory and the condition of the factory. Apple is one of the largest mobile phone manufacturers in the world and they have many factories and workers around the globe. The audit team found out that there is several ethics issue for the factory of Apple. First is the factory hired underage employees which are under age of 16 and it is the youngest age for employment in china. And Apple also falsified identifications to allow underage to work in the factory. The factory
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