MEMO Date: May 2‚ 201 To: CEO From: Re: Lead levels in whistles An issue was raised the manager of the QA team that I feel we need to address. Whistles that are part of the toy collection scheduled to be shipped to a customer in South America have lead content that is higher than allowed by current U.S. standards. Shipping potentially harmful toys without disclosure could do irreparable damage to the image of the company‚ even if shipped out of the U.S. Before addressing
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Contents 1 Whistle Blowing 2 1.1 Origin of term 2 1.2 What is whistle blowing? 2 2 Types of Whistle Blowers 3 3 Ethical Responsibilities of Whistle Blowers 3 3.1 Motivations 3 3.2 Evidence 3 3.3 Danger Prevention 3 3.4 Personal Compliance 3 3.5 Solution 3 4 Benefits of Whistle Blowing 4 5 Drawbacks of Whistle Blowing 4 6 Laws for protection of Whistle Blowers 5 7 Protecting the Whistleblowers – Asian and European Perspectives 6 8 What does whistle blowing have
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Memo To: CEO of Toy Company From: Elementary Division Manger CC: Executive Team Date: 07/23/2011 ------------------------------------------------- Re: Discussion on the process of selecting decision alternatives for the whistle issue of the toy company‚ evaluating the advantages‚ disadvantages‚ legal‚ financial and ethical considerations involved in the various alternatives. The purpose of this memo is to outline three possible decision alternatives to address the problem of small lead
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Memorandum To: Hospital Staff‚ Peer Review Committee‚ Hospital Trustees From: -Lead Surgeon Date: January 20‚ 2013 Subject: Heart Transplant Candidate The purpose of this memorandum is to come to a conclusion about which individual should receive the heart transplant taking into account ethics. There are three people who are in need of the organ transplant; Jerry‚ Lisa‚ and Ozzy. In order to make an informed decision it is important to look at all three cases. Candidate #1- Jerry is a
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your moral position on the matter Whistle-blowing is the release of information by a member or former member of an organization that is evident of illegal conduct in or by the organization. Morality on the other hand can be defined as the concern with the distinction between right or wrong conduct. There are basically four categories of whistle-blowing in the organization. Whistle blowing can be internal‚ external‚ personal or impersonal. Internal whistle-blowing is where the matter is reported
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Normative theory and whistle-blowing Introduction Whistle-blowing in this context is the act‚ for an employee‚ disclosing what he believes to be an unethical or illegal behaviour to higher management (internal whistle-blowing) or to an external authority or the public (external whistle-blowing). Examples of unethical acts include sexual harassment and racial discrimination at work while illegal act include the accounting fraud by the Arthur-Andersen accountants for Enron (Sims & Brinkmann 2003)
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Business Ethics Title of Assignment: Term Paper Whistle Blowing This assignment was done in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Finance Major course (BBA 4) Term paper (GROUP ASSIGNMENT) THE PAPER WILL REQUIRE SOME RESEARCH AND CRITICAL REFLECTION ON WHAT HAS BEEN COVERED IN THE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS. The term paper will be on a topic of interest to the student‚ but requires the approval of the tutor. You may choose a topic from current issues in the news‚
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February 17‚ 2012 SUBJECT: Business Ethics Over the recent years‚ the level of increasing demands for accountability been directed at both businesses and NGOs has tremendously grown. Below is a brief comparison of two different bodies on business ethics: one in the United Kingdom and the other in the US showing how their values or ideas on Ethics align. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougguthrie/2012/01/31/paying-more-than-lip-service-to-business-ethics/ http://www.fm-magazine.com/comment/president/good-thinking-means-good-business
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functions‚ the integrity of these information systems is paramount. Securing company systems‚ however‚ is not always an easy task. More sophisticated systems often provide widespread access to computer resources and increased user knowledge‚ which may lead to added difficulties in maintaining security. This paper explores whistleblowing-employees ’ exposing illegal or unethical computer practices taking place in the organization~as a method of computer security and the support for whistleblowing found
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MAKAHAMADZE Whistle blowing has been described as violating company and collegial loyalty while at the same time it helps to inform the public about business practices. This article is intended to: a. Discuss this statement in relation to whistle blowing as a technique of exposing unethical business practices in an organization b. Suggest other ways of exposing unethical business practices – highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each technique (a)INTRODUCTION Whistle blowing is an
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