PA R T I From Ethical Foundation to Addressing Stakeholder Needs Chapter 1. The Foundation of Ethical Thought Chapter 2. The Evolving Complexities of Business Ethics Chapter 3. Stakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility 1 C H A P T E R 1 The Foundation of Ethical Thought The biggest corporation‚ like the humblest citizen‚ must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people. —Theodore Roosevelt We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist when
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Task 1 Introduction In this assignment I am going to identify the purposes of different types of organisations‚ describe the extent to which an organisation meets the objectives of different stakeholders and explain the responsibilities of an organisation and strategies employed to meet them. I am also going to give examples based on my own personal experience; I also investigate how organisation structure and culture contribute to business successes. I will also look in to how organisations
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HealthSouth Impact on Stakeholders HealthSouth’s fraud impacted many of their stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders discussed below are the Directors and Management Team‚ external auditors Ernst & Young‚ the employees‚ the patients‚ and Chief Financial Officer Weston Smith. The Board of Directors and Management team engaged in several conflict of interest actions. They were the first company to be charged under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002; which holds financial executives more accountable by
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Roles of stakeholders Every organisation has stakeholders. Examples of stakeholder groups (beyond stockholders) are employees‚ suppliers‚ customers‚ creditors‚ competitors‚ governments‚ and communities. They often affect the corporation‚ law and markets but actually it consists of senior management‚ managers and employees. In this assignment‚ we will discuss role of stakeholders in terms of identification of learning and development within organisation‚ what is the nature and application of the
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power against stakeholders e.g. customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ public‚ communities”. Do you agree or disagree? Explain what you answer is and why have you reached that conclusion. You are to include a clear rational argument for your case that has strong examples to support your thinking. Unlike shareholders who are solely interested in return dividends and share price growth‚ stakeholders have wide variety of interests in how companies operate. Freeman (1984) stated that stakeholders are‚ “any
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purposes of corporations are investigated under two different approaches on corporate value maximization: Shareholder Approach and Stakeholder Approach. So‚ firstly both approaches are defined briefly. Secondly‚ compare and contrast of shareholder and stakeholder approaches is made. Keywords: Purpose‚ Corporation‚ Value Maximization‚ Shareholder Approach‚ Stakeholder Approach. Shareholder Approach on Value Maximization: Shareholder approach on value maximization focuses
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Stakeholders’ and Financial Statements Carol Watts Intermediate Accounting I ACC305 In today’s day and age there is no easy way of telling which companies are doing well and which are almost down in the dumps. Banks‚ lending facilities‚ and/or external stakeholders are greatly interested in seeing where companies are in the market compared to their competitors. These companies take the most risk by investing their monies into entities that are not started‚ maintained‚ or organized by
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Stakeholder versus Shareholder Stakeholder theory thinks that the enterprise is a series of contracts with various stakeholders to form various stakeholder consultations‚ the outcome of a transaction‚ whether investors‚ managers‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ or government departments‚ community‚ etc.‚ they are enterprise-specific investments and bear the risks. On the other hand‚ Shareholder theory thinks that not only the market will be sound‚ permanent‚ and viable‚ but also the ethical issues
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Jackie Bowen Tutor Name: Liz Pawlowski Title: Meeting Stakeholder Needs Unit: 3003 Contents Page Page Number * Title Page 1 * Content Page 2 * Aim of the report 3 * Identifying Stone Computers key stakeholders 4 * Understand the process required to continually 8 Improve meeting stakeholder’s needs * Be able to prepare a case to support a change in meeting 11 Stakeholder needs * Bibliography 14 Aim of the
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BA 3102 February 12‚ 2012 Stakeholder Analysis Pursuing hydraulic fracturing as a top manager of Chevron‚ I will describe the dilemmas that are associated with fracking. The first problem with this procedure is finding the appropriate land and leasing it from the landowners. With talk around the country‚ it can be difficult finding land because of landowners’ personal experience with the practice of hydraulic fracturing. In southwestern Pennsylvania there have been cases of animal birth defects
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