Enron’s collapse was the result of unethical practices; alas‚ such practices had a long‚ ignominious presence. The Enron story begins with CEO Kenneth Lay‚ who in 1986 combined his Houston Natural Gas company with several other entities. Until 1996‚ Enron primarily sold natural gas. Yet‚ in a sign of trouble to come‚ in 1987 Lay overlooked evidence of financial misdeeds in the company’s Valhalla‚ NY unit as executives Louis Bourget and Thomas Mastroeni greatly inflated profits while embezzling
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of the promotional mix include publicity‚ public relations‚ personal selling and sales promotion. Advertisement Advertising is a form of communication whose purpose is to inform potential customers about products and services and how to obtain and use them. Many advertisements are also designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinforcement of brand image and brand loyalty. For these purposes advertisements often contain both factual information
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UNETHICAL COMPANIES 1) MONSANTO CO. The Missouri based agricultural company has been named world’s most unethical company. The company leads the world’s production of genetically modified foods. Monsanto is infamous for unfairly suing farmers who try to grow foods both ethically and organically. If the lawsuit is not ruled in Monsanto’s favour‚ they still achieve their desired results as the small-scale farms become bankrupt due to legal costs. The company is also the creator of the highly poisonous
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(Rouse‚ 2010) RES/351 February 15‚ 2014 Unethical Behavior In the year 2004 young billionaire Mark Zuckerberg was tried for accusations or unethical behavior regarding the creation of the popular social media site Facebook. While attending Harvard University students Cameron Winklevoss‚ Tyler Winklevoss‚ and Divya Narendra were developing a social media site Harvard Connection now known as ConnectU. In 2003‚ ConnectU hired Zuckerberg to write some code for their website‚ and a few weeks later
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including: 815 crashes and 314 injuries. Toyota had built over 8.5 million defected vehicles (bad accelerators) and sent them out to be sold to customers knowingly these vehicles were dangerous to individuals (Patton‚ J.‚ & Estep‚ B.‚2010).. Unethical behavior includes the Japanese purposely failing to mention the defect in the accelerator system so they could keep up their sales to become the number one selling automobile company in the United Sates. The company was looking to make money and
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and new inventions everyday . This obsession is clearly prevailing and despite all the positive aspects it holds for us . We should highlight the dangers of letting artificial intelligence become way beyond human intelligence. In modern society‚ we use computer and cyber technology to communicate with friends and family via social networking sites ‚ participate in business transactions‚ and get current news. However ‚ Although these inventions are claimed to be legal it does not mean they are ethical
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with unclean tools and no medicine to ease the pain. Only one out of thirty patients survived. In order to test one of his theories about the causes of trismus I infants he used shoemaker tools to move around skull bones in unborn babies. This is unethical because it killed many women and harmed their unborn babies. It was kind of like an abortion but not taking the baby out and not numbing you. He later perfected the experiment and then tried it on Caucasian women with anesthesia. This is not an
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always will remain immoral. The two main types of abortions are in-clinic abortion and the abortion pill which are both horrific; and the abortions‚ in turn‚ also cause health risks for the mother and her future pregnancies! Abortion is astonishingly unethical. Many people will try to persuade you to think that abortion is a short‚ simple‚ and clean process; however‚ they are sadly mistaken. As mentioned before there are two types of abortions‚ none of which are remotely close to being short‚ simple‚
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Ethical human resource policies are vital to creating and maintaining an ethical company culture. Employees who are treated with basic decency are more likely to be content with their jobs. When employees feel exploited‚ they are prone to overt unethical behavior such as theft‚ as well as more subtle offenses such as using company resources for personal gain. When employees are fairly compensated for their work‚ they are likely to give more to the company and less inclined to take advantage of opportunities
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West Virginia Attorney General‚ Darrell McGraw‚ is suing Capital One for misleading practices in both lending and collection practices. The complaint was filed to the West Virginia’s Circuit Court and it states that Capital One enticed consumers with a repayment plan by mailing out solicitations disguised as new credit offers (Megan‚ 2010). “Capital One offered to provide credit card holders one dollar of new credit if they agreed to transfer the entire balance of a charged off account to the new
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