ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY lululemon athletica There are many ways to measure the success of a business. A financial analysis of lululemon athletica‚ a Vancouver-based company‚ would show that it is valued at more than $220 million. Would looking at an improved level of health in its community be another way to measure the success of this company? lululemon athletica founder Chip Wilson would welcome your investigation of the improved health and well-being of people in the communities
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TOK You can not call a house made of nothing but a pile of bricks‚ a house‚ as it needs cement around its stones to have them stick together to be build from its base‚ all the way tot he roof. Other factors would be glass for windows and tiles for the roof‚ which is why neither a pile of bricks‚ nor just a design is what makes up the house. Henri Poincare uses the metaphor of a house to describe science. But what we need to consider is the definition of a fact and also by what process these
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Courtney Hoppes BMGT 223 Article Review #1 Product Packaging and Ethical Responsibility There have been many consumer products that have had misleading advertisements‚ designs‚ and labels. One writer of Forbes.com has come across the packaging of a certain products that he believes should raise an ethical concern. These concerns are aimed mostly at young children since they usually do not read labels‚ and generally go by appearance. The article is aimed at the Colgate company for their misleading
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New TOK Essay Topic 3: There are no absolute distinctions between what is true and what is false. Discuss this claim. I’d always believed that the truth was a rather simple idea. To me‚ it was something that was true or correct or existing in this world. But after all the discussions in TOK‚ with family and with friends‚ and after deep rumination on the subject‚ I’ve realized that’s it’s a much more broad‚ complex and often mind-boggling concept. However‚ now I see that there are essentially
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Ethical Issues and Social Responsibility Case Analysis: BP (Beyond Petroleum) Beyond Petroleum (BP)‚ one of the world’s largest energy companies has seen many highs and lows over its 100 history. Throughout BP’s 100 year history there have been numerous questions about the company’s ethical conduct. These ethical misconducts include fraud‚ environmental crimes‚ regulatory negligence‚ and the endangering of habitats (Thorne‚ D.M.‚ Ferrell‚ O.C.‚ & Ferrell‚ L.‚ 2011). With the multiple
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TOK Essay: When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing? Many question its reliability because at times‚ intuition is of great help to us‚ but other times‚ it may influence us in making the biggest mistakes. Before we are able to decide whether or not “intuitively appealing” explanations should be considered‚ we need to define the word. Simply‚ intuition is a method of attaining knowledge without the use of reason. It is the direct knowledge that we can access without rational
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“There are only two ways that humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment” To what extent do you agree with this statement? To begin with‚ we need to specially define several key words in the statement. From my point of view‚ “produce knowledge” means the creation of new knowledge‚ including both personal knowledge and shared knowledge; “passive observation” refers to accepting and perceiving the incidences happened without active response; “active experiment”
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Unpacking the TOK Essay Title ‘Doubt is the key to knowledge’ (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in ethics and in one other area of knowledge? 1. Central terms and phrases in the title: doubt‚ key to knowledge‚ ethics‚ extent and true. 2. Explicit demands: Explain to what extent the quote is true. Relate this quote to ethics and one other area of knowledge. 3. Implicit demands: define doubt in relation to knowledge. Define ethics and the other area of knowledge. Discuss‚
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TOK Essay on History (Pompeii Activity) Dear students Please choose one of the past TOK prescribed titles in order to analyse the Pompeii Activity dealing with: AOK: History‚ Natural Sciences WOK: Reason‚ Sense Perception‚ Language‚ Emotion Concepts: Certainty‚ Evidence‚ Explanation‚ Interpretation‚ Technology Knowledge Questions: Bias‚ selection‚ absolute claims‚ conflicting interpretations 1. Using history and at least one other area of knowledge‚ examine the claim that it is possible to
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Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility Research Paper Marquita Jackson Dr. Rhonda Evans LEG 500 Law‚ Ethics‚ & Corp Governance November 18‚ 2012 Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”‚ where he oversees all departments with over 5‚000 employees and over 20‚000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments‚ including business development‚ customer services
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