Week 3 Assignment Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Professor Michael Wasson BUSN-115-61763 Introduction to Business & Technology Rosalind M. Stift 03/23/2014 The United States has several laws that are intended to further fair‚ balanced‚ and competitive practices. I do feel that these laws are effective in many ways. Some of those ways I will pin point in the next few paragraphs. These laws include some major concepts of law. Some of these
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21st century has proven to be an interesting period for businesses. With the invention of social media and the availability of information on-demand through the internet and mobile devices‚ businesses are constantly facing scrutiny from the public eye in regards to how they conduct themselves. Gone are the days of the 90’s when a business didn’t have to place much emphasis on their ethical responsibilities. Today however‚ a business must be very precise and careful in how it operates. Whether it
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1.0 Description of Initial Response Responsible business normally is known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In today’s world‚ most businesses are focusing on profitability ignoring all social responsibility they should contribute back. It is important for companies to gain trust from the community in return of CSR. Three major personal core values that I think a ‘responsible business’ should have are empower‚ professionalism and commitment. First of all‚ when a company able to empowering
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ethics and social responsibility are essential in the business world as society is increasingly paying attention on the social responsibility of the companies and the ethics of their managers. According to Post et al (1996)‚ ethics refers to standards of behaviour and moral judgement differentiating right from wrong. In addition‚ Bartol et al (2003) defined managerial ethics as “standards of conduct and moral judgement managers’ use conducting their business”. The objective of this essay is to analyze
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2010. Sappi Sustainable Development Report 2010. [Online] Available at: http://sappi.investoreports.com/sappi_sdr_2010/case-study/people/kwadukuza-resource-centre-celebrating-ten-years/ [Accessed 1 March 2013]. * Sappi‚ 2013. Sappi Corporate Social Responsibility. [Online] Available at: http://www.sappi.com/regions/sa/SupportAndSponsorships/CSR/EducationLiteracy/Pages/default.aspx [Accessed 28 February 2013]. * Sappi‚ 2013. Sappi KwaDukuza Resource Centre. [Online] Available at: http://www.resourcecentre
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One of the most controversial issues that has been widely debated over the last two decades is the corporate social responsibility of organizations. Opinions about business’s social responsibilities lie mainly between two extremes. At the one extreme is the classical view that states business is an economic institution directed towards profit whose only responsibility to society is to provide goods and services and to return maximum benefits to shareholders (Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg and Coulter‚ 2003:
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Responsibility is being able to acknowledge and recognize that an outcome happened because of a choice. Responsibility is also accepting accountability for a particular choice. Once a person learns self-control‚ and can take blame rather than place blame‚ he or she can become a happy and successful person. Usually‚ everyone is capable of being responsible for his or her choices. As much as we might often see responsibility as a burden‚ it is one of the most important character traits in life
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Social responsibility is defined as the organizations obligation to maximize their positive impact on stakeholders‚ and to minimize their negative impact on stakeholders. Social responsibility embodies what is fair as well as represents stakeholder’s rights. Companies have the social responsibility to be profitable‚ to obey the law‚ to be ethical‚ and to be philanthropic. For example‚ social responsibility has a strong relationship with profitability because if a company’s image or conduct is questionable
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The Controversy of Homosexuality 12/23/2012 Outline: I. “I now pronounce you husband and husband”‚ when many people hear this statement whether in real life or in movies‚ it brings about many different opinions and reactions. Same sex marriage is still a controversial issue‚ and it’s questionable in many societies‚ in fact it is acceptable in very few communities in the world. People who oppose gay marriage are actually opposing unethical behavior that goes against many beliefs and different
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relevant to CSR‚ such as labor‚ environmental protection and social welfare‚ is in place‚ there are many problems with compliance‚ such as difficulty with enforcement‚ frequent changes to the content of laws and regulations‚ and interpretation of laws being left up to regional governments. As solving those problems will strengthen corporations’ international competitiveness‚ achieve sustainable economic growth and increase corporate value‚ every company as well as the Chinese government is taking
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