Semester 1‚ 2010/2011 CBEB3101 Business Ethics Quiz 1 26 August 2010 SUGGESTED ANSWERS True/False Questions: Circle the correct answer. 1. Ethically responsible leaders within any business promote ethics through personal behaviour and thoughts alone. False 2. Talking about business’s social responsibilities is to be concerned with society’s interests that bind business’s behaviour. True 3. Rawl’s theory of social justice is the ethical principle that is based on the foundations
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Business Research Ethics Tanya Beeler Steve Roussas - RES/351 September 5‚ 2012 Abstract The Tuskegee syphilis study was an unethical research study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 on a poor African American community in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. There were 600 men involved including 301 men that had already contracted syphilis and 299 men that had not. The ramifications of the unethical research that was conducted on these men affected their spouses‚ children and the
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CHAPTER 2 BUSINESS ETHICS CONCEPTS & CASES ADITYA AKBAR ENDRY M SINATRYA RIANDIKA SYACHRIAL SELY DWIYANI Based on Business Ethics Manuel G. Velasquez UTILITARIANISM ACTIONS AND POLICIES SHOULD BE EVALUATED ON THE BASIS OF THE BENEFITS AND COSTS THEY WILL IMPOSE ON SOCIETY. THE ONLY MORALLY RIGHT ACTION IN ANY SITUATION IS THAT WHOSE UTILITY IS GREATEST BY COMPARISON TO THE UTILITY OF ALL THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES . we begin with a discussion of apartheid-era South Africa and Caltex‚ an American
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Business Ethics Reflection XMGT/216 Business Ethics Reflection Morality and values-based dilemmas in the workplace are difficult to handle when employees have to choose between what’s right and what’s wrong according to their own principles. Many ethical choices are clear cut in the workplace because we can easily think about what is ’right’ in the workplace and what is ’wrong’ in the workplace. Other times there are situations that arise in the workplace setting that two or more important
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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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Pollution is the act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted‚ especially the contamination of soil‚ water‚ or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pollution). Pollution is a universal problem. It seems that many businesses and people are unaware of the effect that pollutants have on people. Car exhaustion‚ tobacco smoking‚ dumping waste‚ and emission from factories and plants are just a few ways to pollute our ozone. I
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BUSINESS ETHICS 2011 Report Sunderland Business School Undergraduate Programs Name: Lanny Chew Jun Kheong Identification Number: 880328-52-5707 Student ID: 109129662/1 Tel. Number: 016-8515159 E-mail: lannicjk@hotmail.com Study Centre: SEGi College Sarawak Module: Business Ethics Code: UGB210 Module Tutor: Ms. Adeline Academic Year: 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report was produced as an audit report providing a ‘snapshot’ of KFC’s business ethics. First‚ the author started with the ethical dilemma
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increasing globalization‚ international business ethics has become an important issue. The number of multinational companies‚ which operate outside of their home country‚ is increasing rapidly. Many conflicts occur due to contrasting ethical values of various nations in the international community. Some ethical dilemmas arise from issues of employee rights‚ human rights‚ environmental concerns‚ preventing corruption and moral obligations. International business encompasses a full range of cross-border
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Part I: Capitalism 1.1 Introduction According to an online article entitled “ Reflections on capitalism” : The word “capitalism” was popularised by Karl Marx in the middle of the 19th century .It is a social ‚ political as well as an economic system that countries use to guide their development programs and economic policies. Almost all the worlds countries are currently running their economies on capitalist inspired doctrines ‚this fact testifies to a great extent of the many advantages and viability
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Business Ethics Is Not An Oxymoron by Dexter Calma Ateneo Graduate School of Business Business‚ in a very simplified definition‚ describes an exchange of something for another. In this context‚ it can be implied that there is a fiduciary understanding that the parties involved receive goods or services that are of equal value according to the appraisal system that they have agreed upon‚ whether it is based on units of measurement‚ or just mere goodwill. Thus‚ ethical standards that are applied
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