BUSINESS ETHICS CASE STUDY 1) What are Joseph’s ethical problems? Joseph is faced with some ethical problems such as honesty‚ conflicts of interest‚ fairness and bribes. He found out that Carl and other employees were using (kickback) with their customers. Even if the Alcon’s hand book didn’t say anything about the kickback‚ but it include this statement" our company stands for the right thing at all time and giving our customers the best products for the best price" so Joseph and the employees
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reporting and internal governance standard of public companies. Ethics Issues The first issue is the lack of independence of the board of directors and their breach of fiduciary duty. The Board of Directors has the legal and ethical duty of monitoring the company’s management on behalf of the shareholders. The members should remain independent and should always examine the company’s operations with great care. In Enron’s case‚ the Board of Directors was comprised of members who were too close
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The Case Against Merck and Co.‚ Inc. Chris Brefeld August 2‚ 2010 The Case of Merck and Co.‚ Inc. Merck and Co.‚ Inc. is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with a market capitalization of over $110 billion dollars. The company describes itself as a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers‚ develops‚ manufactures‚ and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The company also makes an effort to increase access to its medicine
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Ethics Case Study Merck & Company invested millions of dollars to develop a treatment for river blindness‚ a disease of the developing world that has infected 18 million people and poses a risk for 127 million people. River blindness is caused by the bite of black flies that deposit larvae of a parasite under the skin of their victims. When the larvae mature into adult worms‚ the adults reproduce millions of the immature forms of the parasites that migrate throughout the tissues of the body causing
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Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Author: Muhammad Yunus Copyright: 2003 Introduction Banker to the Poor narrates the life of Muhammad Yunus and his conception of the micro-lending institution‚ Grameen Bank‚ to provide help to the poor. Yunus had a dream of providing help the poor to be able to help themselves. He believes that if the poor can receive financial help in the form of very small loans and are taught some basic principles of financial management‚ they will learn
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INDIVIDUAL WORK WEEK TWO-CASE STUDY BY SHELLY DAVIS Identify what you consider to be potentially unethical. Why do you think it is not ethical? I believe Daryl’s decision to have the secretary and the market research interns to work on his book are unethical. The book that Daryl is supposed to be writing for one isn’t from his own words or his own research. He’s using the interns to look up information‚ having them use the company’s time and money to do research on a book that is basically
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America David K. Shipler David K. Shipler is the author of The Working Poor: Invisible in America‚ also winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land‚ and a Journalist/ Foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Shipler is a well known author who shows have had plenty of life experiences and education‚ while studying society and trying to understand the
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In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics‚ the idea of people finding happiness‚ which is the ultimate end and purpose of human existence‚ depends on having a moral character. The possibility of people being able to do the right thing would be more clear in situations where people’s lives may be on the line. Aristotle repeatedly reminds us that in ethics‚ there are no universal/absolute rules or laws in place that dictate how people should specifically act under specific conditions. Everything has the potential
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many brokers have some people wondering if they have a conscience or are they just evil. A good example in this case was when one of the brokers took advantage of an unemployed widow who needed sound advice on how to diversify her portfolio in such a way that it would sustain her for the rest of her life. Needless to say‚ she was steered in the wrong direction. It may have been poor planning on her part by not getting a second or third opinion but she also should have been provided some kind of
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Little Enough or Too Much 1.) Describe the factual situation Bryan‚ a new employee of the X Chemical company has been placed in charge to oversee the production and construction of their newly released product‚ industrial lubricant. The X Chemical company was built nearby a river and asked permission from the government agencies to release their excess waste into the river. Other companies also reside along the river and are dumping their excess waste into it as well. This strikes as a concern
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