Case Study 6.1 Sweatshops Katie White BA 616 Business Ethics Dr. Moore 31 May 2014 Which of your company’s practices can you defend in good conscience? The company can defend moving much of it’s manufacturing plants overseas. For the company this cuts labor costs and provides jobs to those who are in desperate need in other countries. The wages provided to employees is in compliance with the local laws. The employees are satisfied with their wages and the hours they work. There is a large demand
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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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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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Kelly Thompson Professor Kathleen Davis BA 3102 4 March 2013 Analysis Paper #1- Management Case 2: Short Shorts In Don’s situation‚ he Don is in a difficult position because he is responsible for implementing the policies and procedures made by Fred for his business‚ possibly even if he agrees with them or notregardless of whether or not Don agrees with them. Depending on how badly he needs the job‚ Don has the choice to leave if he doesn’t agree with The Sandtrap’s policies. However‚ for simplicity’s
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HR RELATED ETHICAL ISSUES INTRODUCTION: Ethics refers to a system of moral principles - a sense of right and wrong‚ and goodness and badness of actions and the motives and consequences of these actions. In the business‚ businessmen must draw their ideas about what is desirable behavior from the same sources as anybody else would draw. Ethical values channelize the individual energies into pursuits that are benign to others and beneficial to the society. Ethical issues abound in
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Wal-Mart Business Ethics RES/351 09/10/2012 Sara Skowronski Wal-Mart Business Research Ethics "The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing‚ which has led to continuing scandals‚ controversies‚ unethical practices‚ and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport‚" once quoted by Charles W. Pickering. Wal-Mart has developed to become one of the biggest retail store in the world. Being one of America ’s biggest
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Week 4 Quiz RES 342 1. Describe in your own words what an ANOVA test is and what it can be used for in business research. The ANOVA test analysis variance and finds out if the means of several groups are equal to each other or different. In business research and ANOVA test can be used to test if the profits of three companies‚ located in different regions‚ are equal to each other during the holiday shopping season. 2. If we have three or more population means to compare‚ why can’t we test
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or personal life‚ and how your knowledge has increased as a result of what you experienced through the learning activities in the previous week. * Submit your team summary of the discussion in a 1- to 2-page Microsoft® Word document. In week two I learned a lot about how different databases reflect in different ways according to the different business needs. During the second discussion question I learned about how the two major databases‚ Microsoft Access and Oracle are leading the top businesses
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MGT3201 / 3231: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND GRADING STRUCTURE Individual Case Study (20%) This assessment criteria and grading structure is used as the: 1. general guidelines for marking written coursework‚ and 2. feedback to the students for future improvement. | |Content |Analysis |Evidence of Reflection |Achievement of Learning | | | | | |Outcomes
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Business Ethics Gender Discrimination The evolving role of women in the workplace is not readily accepted in society. Despite the illegality of gender discrimination‚ women are being discriminated against in hiring practices‚ advancement opportunities‚ and income in the workplace. In the case study given to us‚ we were asked to suggest best possible ways to control or eliminate gender discrimination. To begin with we started to root causes of discrimination‚ most commonly known to us. One of
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