Fiduciary Responsibility Shana Bates City University of Seattle Business Ethics Amy Thiele June 20‚ 2014 Introduction This paper discusses in detail the issue of fiduciary responsibility. A fiduciary relationship describes an association in which an individual is vested with the obligation of caring for another person’s rights or property. The fiduciary relationship is supposed to be a very special and confidential association where the fiduciary must be honor-bound to legally accomplish
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many ethical issues that an organisation face and one of the organisations which faces major issue is the Kentucky Fried Chicken. In my report‚ I would analysis about the issue faced by KFC and the ethical problems that the company encounters. 1.0 ETHICS DILEMMAS FACING BY KFC KFC is among the most popular fast food brands in the world. Started out in the fifties‚ KFC now boasts of operating‚ franchising‚ and serving a worldwide chain of around 11‚000 fast food restaurants that prepare
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A business cannot claim to be ethical firm if it ignores unethical practices by its suppliers – e.g. * Use of child labour and forced labour * Production in sweatshops * Violation of the basic rights of workers * Ignoring health‚ safety and environmental standards An ethical business has to be concerned with the behaviour of all businesses that operate in the supply chain – i.e. * Suppliers * Contractors * Distributors * Sales agents The two articles below
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the core textbook * “I’m still not sure of what an ethical dilemma is and if my dilemma is a dilemma!”- OK. Questions to ask yourself: * Is my dilemma about an individual who is facing a problem? * Can I justify the problem as a business ethical problem in which an individual is faced with making a difficult ethical decision of some kind (i.e. a dilemma)? * Can I examine the dilemma and justify it as an ethical dilemma meeting the 4 performance areas (p.9) of the marking scheme
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are stakeholders? • stockholders • employees • customers • managers • supplies • local community According to Friedman‚ can a business do anything in the quest for profits? • No‚ it must not be deceptive or fraudulent Who is Theodore Levitt? • Former professor of marketing at Harvard B-School‚ Ph.D. in economics‚ prolific writer‚ editor of Harvard Business Review‚ coined the term "globalization" has been referred to as the father of modern marketing What is meant by a "nonconsequentialist
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Building a just‚ stable‚ harmonious world for the future generations should be the central organising principle for civilisation. Our ideas about nature have varied through the whole history of environmentalism. This unit reviews the environmental ethics‚ our views and beliefs about nature and environment‚ issue of environmental equity dealing with the environmental crisis‚ environmental justice and its principles‚ racial discrimination at the policy and public level in managing the environment‚ and
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spring coffee The idea of business and evolution of capitalism has shown that there is a much greater purpose than solely making profits through B-Corporations. According to Michael R. Deskins‚ “A B Corp is one in which corporations can create benefit for both society at large and corporate stakeholders” (Deskins‚ 1) B Lab founder‚ Jay Cohen‚ and co-founder‚ Andrew Kassoy‚ both cover a very similar presentation discussing what B Corporations are for the future of business‚ thus differentiating their
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the company and in the following part‚ we will indicate more on the ethical and unethical issues with the example of Sanlu Group. 1.2 Ethical and unethical issues Business ethics is defined as the study of moral and social responsibility in relation to business practices and decision-making in business. In other word‚ ethics is conforming to the standards of behavior that widely accepted by the social. Ethical behavior can base on three areas in making managerial decision. First‚ choose about
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Course: Business ethics RACISM Racism itself is a sub-topic of discrimination. Racism is basically discrimination‚ or in simple words‚ hatred or disliking towards a human being because that certain person belongs to another culture or is of another colour which they may not like. Racism has been happening since the world has been made. Since beginning discrimination on very different occasions has been towards people‚ in which their fault is only
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She has arrived late to work almost every day. Her co-workers are quite angry about this and discuss their frustrations with the supervisor. They claim that she is affecting the work environment. Because she is not doing her share‚ everyone else in the work team is overloaded. Marta’s group carries out a process that requires cooperative group work. Four operators must work as one coordinated production unit. If one team member is absent‚ the rest of the team works less efficiently. Company
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