Management Class. Once I attended the class‚ I quickly realized that Government contracting is a big deal‚ because this is how the Government procures their goods and services. The U.S. federal government is the leading consumer of goods and services in the world‚ awarding Billions in contracts every year. There are rules and regulations mandated by Congress that have to be followed when procuring goods and services for the government. The guiding authority used for the acquisition process is called
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our society today. It seems as if‚ a person cannot turn on the evening news or pick up a newspaper without seeing a story centered on unethical business practices in the workplace. With that being said‚ an individual might ask the following questions: “Why are so many organizations resorting to unethical business practices and what is fueling these new behaviors”? More importantly‚ is human resources aware of what is transpiring within their own company?” Additionally‚ what level of involvement
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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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for a manager to deal with an employee or an independent contractor. Provide an example or rationale for your answer. Determining which is easier to manager between employee and independent contractor would have to first be defined to determine the differences between the two. An employee is anyone who performs services for an employer where they would control what would be done and how it would be done. With an independent contractor‚ the business/employer only has the rights to direct the resulting
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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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RESPONDING TO CONTRACTORS SELECTION PROBLEMS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITH PREQUALIFICATION MODEL Abstract Selecting a contractor for a construction project has been shown to be directly related to the success or failure of the entire project and client’s value for money. It was observed that the wrong choice of a contractor will certainly impact on the time‚ cost and quality of delivery of the project. This study assessed the prequalification criteria for evaluating contractors and their eventual
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Tobacco Tax Advantage According to the study from The School of Public Health of The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine‚ shows that with the 50% increase in tobacco tax in 2009‚ adolescent current smoking rate further dropped to 4.8% in early 2010 and 3.4% in late 2010‚ i.e. an overall 51% drop in adolescent smoking. Disadvantage People resort to buying illicit cigarettes‚ which is cheaper. This only promotes smuggling and illegal sale of cigarettes. Thus it is easier
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This article is about the Obama administration saying that it would give people eight more days‚ until Dec. 23‚ to sign up for health insurance coverage that takes effect on Jan. 1 under the new health care law. The administration also said it would delay the 2015 insurance enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act by a month‚ pushing it beyond the 2014 midterm elections. The decision means that people who have not signed up for insurance by the end of March will have to wait
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Affairs among members of the large corporate structures are not uncommon and can be found documented in many different venues. When a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) chooses to have an affair with an employee on his staff‚ many questions can be raised. Is it a question of whether the affair was wrong‚ or whether the conduct reflects poorly on not only the person’s involved‚ but the company that was involved? Perhaps it just came down to Mr. Stonecipher not practicing what he preached. From an ethical
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Ethical Behavior‚ a Myth of the Past or a Necessity for Future Development With the ever increasing pressures of life‚ philosophers‚ psychologists and intellectuals are striving to answer the question‚ Are ethics basically becoming a myth of the past? The question calls for stepping beyond the yes or no answers‚ to analyze and investigate the factors influencing ethical behaviors today. Whether personal‚ organizational‚ contextual or environmental‚ they all play a significant role in shaping
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