A GOOD DEED CREATES A GOOD SAMARITAN‚ NOT A HERO Connie Halal English Comp 122 Prof: Amy Morris May 17‚ 2013 A good deed creates a Good Samaritan‚ not a hero Today’s society is a busy self absorbed atmosphere. Our cultural system encourages everyone to go about their business on a daily basis while routinely ignoring the hungry man on the street corner or the dead animal on the side of the highway. It’s normal to mind your own business and not stick your neck out
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Unethical Credit Card Practices The ethics of credit card companies has to be in question. They are one of the few businesses that can change the rules on you and there is currently nothing you can do about. The credit industry is not your friend. They want to get you to borrow money from them and to keep you in debt for as long as possible. This way they have a constant flow of revenue through the interest payments‚ late charge fees and over the limit fees. They have many practices and charges
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The Res Gestae or The Deeds of the Divine Augustus is an account of the life of the first Roman Emperor‚ Caesar Augustus. The biography‚ which is preserved on two bronze pillars in the city of Rome‚ was commissioned by the emperor on the seventy-third year of his reign . The autobiography stands as the ‘official’ record of Augustus’s legacy. The format is fragmented‚ as each deed is recorded separately‚ while the structure is linear as the events chronicled are arranged in chronological order. I
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employees through means of internal circulars. The employment and other personnel policies of the company shall contain provisions protecting it from unfair termination and other unfair prejudicial employment practice. There is absolutely no room for unethical behaviour in the professional world. This statement is exceptionally important for publicly traded companies and their accounting practices. From financial officers to accountants to auditors‚ and so on‚ there is no greater impact on stakeholders
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being modeled from top management (lead by example). The federal laws for social responsibilities for business represent the minimum standards of social responsibility that businesses must adhere too. If a company is acting socially responsible then more than likely they are acting ethically. It is currently up to each business leader to decide how far beyond the minimum standards they go when performing in their business. There really isn’t room for unethical behavior in the professional world; there
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but the company that was involved? Perhaps it just came down to Mr. Stonecipher not practicing what he preached. From an ethical standpoint‚ Mr. Stonecipher was clearly in the wrong. As a CEO or a leader for that matter‚ you must lead by example and his example was poor at best. You cannot enforce standards in the workplace if you are skirting those standards yourself. As chairman of any company‚ you must not only enforce standards among your employees‚ but you must also adhere to those standards
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Unethical Behavior in the Workplace: Causes and Corrections Lisa Witzel University of Central Oklahoma Ethics and Organizations Ethics As the lines between what is moral and ethical and what is not becomes more blurred‚ it is important more than ever to desire and maintain an ethical work culture. In the past few decades‚ the fast pace of technology‚ the moral disintegration of values in the general population and the blatant disregard for ethical
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suppliers with poor quality products. In an effort to lower improve on these supplies‚ GM became too aggressive with their suppliers. GM frequently shared supplier information with other suppliers to put pressure on them to reduce costs to GM. The unethical behaviors lead to the loss of suppliers. In an effort to be released from U.S. tariffs for importing their vehicles‚ the competition also began the realization of building their own manufacturing plants inside the borders of the United States. Quickly
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Animal Experimentation: Unethical According to Utilitarianism Introduction: One of the most debated ethical issues is Animal Rights. Animals are so much a part of our lives and world that it is impossible to ignore the ethical issues we are faced with pertaining to the treatment of animals. What is difficult about these issues is that although animals have many similar attributes as humans they lack the developed brain function that humans have. Although many animals can feel pain‚ experience
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WorldCom: Organizational Culture and Unethical Safeguards Organizational culture is one of four influences whether an ethical or unethical behavior will be made. WorldCom’s demise‚ deliberately overstating their income by $7 billion between 1999 and 2002; and their once valued stock of $180 million becoming nearly worthless‚ can attribute a significant amount of their failure on their “dis”organizational culture. Corporations worldwide who do not think this type of fraud can happen at the hands
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