ENGINEERING ETHICS Concepts and Cases This page intentionally left blank g F O U R T H E D I T I O N ENGINEERING ETHICS Concepts and Cases CHARLES E. HARRIS Texas A&M University MICHAEL S. PRITCHARD Western Michigan University MICHAEL J. RABINS Texas A&M University Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases‚ Fourth Edition Charles E. Harris‚ Michael S. Pritchard‚ and
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Case studies for use in Groups (First in first served! Once a group has chosen a case study‚ it is no longer available for another group. Choose carefully‚ some are more difficult than others‚ offering the chance to shine! Remember: you need to carry out ethical due-diligence. Good recommendations foresee different possible outcomes and challenges.) 1. You are a management team at a bank that is feeling competitive pressures: the financial crisis has made international borrowings more expensive and
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Center SOLVENCIA Country Risk Case Study © CCMP-2008 Country Risk Analysis : Solvencia & Casino Bank- Bouchet Michel-H‚ CERAM Global Finance Center TABLE of Contents 1. Case Presentation and Introduction- Pedagogical support note 2. Country risk case study: Solvencia and Casino Bank 3. Excel spreadsheet 4. Annex: questions and answers regarding international bond issue and country risk 5. Case correction 1: Final Country Risk Report 6. Case Correction 2: Excel spreadsheets‚
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CASE STUDY Aeronautica Civil: Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Noncompetitive Industry As noted in the chapter‚ competitiveness in government agencies can sometimes be expressed as “competing against yourself.” Essentially‚ an organization sets goals that are significantly higher than current performance and puts processes and systems in place to meet those goals‚ thus effectively competing against its former performance. Aeronautica Civil (aerocivil.gov.co) is Colombia’s aircontrol agency
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Management Practice CA1 Handup first week after Easter Typed‚ 3-5 pages please CA: Case study: Brownloaf MacTaggart: control and power in a management consultancy Background Brownloaf MacTaggart (BM) is the engineering consulting division of Watkins International‚ a large international firm of chartered accountants and management consultants. Watkins was established as a chartered accountancy practice in 1893. Following decades of moderate growth it entered the management consultancy market
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for developing and maintaining software. Software development models[edit] Several models exist to streamline the development process. Each one has its pros and cons‚ and it is up to the development team to adopt the most appropriate one for the project. Sometimes a combination of the models may be more suitable. Waterfall model[edit] Main article: Waterfall model The activities of the software development process represented in the waterfall model. There are several other models to represent
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Operational Management: John Deer Case Study The company that has been chosen for this case study is John Deere Equipments. This company was founded by John Deere in 1837 and was incorporated in 1868 as Deere & Company. John Deere started this company as a one-man blacksmith shop and it is now a worldwide corporation that has its offices in more than 160 countries and employs more than 46‚000 people. John Deere is one of the oldest industrial companies in the United States and it is guided by the
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2 New Product Development 2.1 Introduction New product development is a multi-stage process. Many different models with a varying number of stages have been proposed in the literature. We briefly review these models and propose a new model that is better suited to decision making regarding product performance and specification. In this chapter we start with a discussion of products and product life cycle in order to set the background for the later sections of the chapter. The outline of the
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Global Strategy and Leadership SMA 要重 Module Module 1 - An introducing to strategy and leadership Introducing strategy and leadership The evolution of strategy Differentiating strategy Operational effectiveness Competitive strategy productivity frontier Figure 1.1 Reading 1.1 Are you sure you have a strategy? The elements of strategy Arenas Vehicles Differentiaors Staging Economic logic IKEA Table 1 Testing the quality of your strategy The emergence ( ) of strategy Developing
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Twenty years ago‚ super-maximum-security prisons were rare in America. As of 1996‚ over two-thirds of states had "supermax" facilities that collectively housed more than 20‚000 inmates. Based on the present study‚ however‚ as of 2004‚ 44 states had supermax prisons. Designed to hold the most violent and disruptive inmates in single-cell confinement for 23 hours per day‚ often for an indefinite period of time‚ these facilities have been lightning rods for controversy. Economic
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