ASSIGNMENT NO.1 Subject: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Topic: Business Ethics scenario Case Study Date: 7th March 2011 Submitted by: Miss. Janhavi R Joshi Submitted to: Professor Mrs. Monica Khanna 1. Receiving a Holiday Gift: A supplier sends a basket of expensive foodstuffs to your home at Christmas with a card: "We hope you and your family enjoy the ’goodies.’". What action(s) might you want to take? Answer: Ethical dilemma: There are two reasons for such generosity from the Supplier
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Law‚ Ethics‚ and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Explain if it matters that a parent literally had nothing to do with a biological child in order for the child to take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to care for that parent. Under the Family and medical Leave Act (FMLA)‚ a child can take care of their biological parent. This is even true even if that parent literally had nothing to do with the child growing up. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides an
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Introduction 3.0 Overview 4.0 Task 5.0 Corporate Governance Issues 5.1 Board of Directors 5.2 Shareholders 5.2.1 Implementation of Independent Auditors from Management 5.2.2 Setting up Effective Accounting Rules 5.3 Modern CEOs 6.0 The Role of Corporate Ethics 7.0 Recommended Policies to be Implemented 7.1 Sarbanes-Oxley Act 7.2 The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) 8.0 The Required Way to Deal with Corporate Failure 9.0 Conclusion 10.0 Recommendation
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1. What is ethics? What is morality? Ethics is the philosophical study of morality. Morality refers to the belief of right and wrong‚ good and bad‚ beliefs that can include judgments‚ values‚ rules‚ principles and theories. 2. In what ways are we forced to do ethics? What is at stake in these deliberations? A person is forced to do ethics every time they exam any feeling‚ choice‚ or action concerning right or wrong. The thing that is at stake when doing ethics is a person’s values.
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overall corporate strategy? “I think that Starbucks has been concerned with social responsibility in its overall corporate strategy because in the long run it affects the bottom line. By being socially responsible‚ the business is also showing that they care about more than their profits. Caring about more than just profits allows for greater employee commitment‚ investor loyalty‚ as well as higher customer satisfaction. Research has also shown that social responsibility and good business ethics contributes
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of how and why life’s principles and moral rules should be applied to everyday life. The two theories of focus in this discussion are: Femininist/Care Ethics and Utilitarianism. We will take a closer look into Feminist/ Care Ethics and find out what it means to say that women and men are equal and what it does not mean. We will also go in depth about the Utilitarianism theory to try and answer the question‚ “Does it make a difference whether a person’s life is ended by an act of active killing
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IRUM SUBMITTED BY IMAM BAKHSH ASSIGMENT BUSINESS ETHICS IN ISLAMIC CONTEXT DEPARMENT MANAGEMENT SCIENCES SUBMISSION DATE 9_07_2010 What is Ethics?Ethics may be defined as the set of moral principles that distinguish what is right from what is wrong. Ethics has a twofold objective: it evaluates human practices by calling upon moral standards; also it may give prescriptive advice on how to act morally in a given situation. Ethics‚ therefore‚ aims to study both moral and immoral behaviour
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so‚ they also face many snags during their professional work. Sometimes there might also be a conflict between the personal and professional ethical values of a person in the professional career (González-Prendes‚ 2011). Furthermore‚ personal and professional ethics are also two different things and not the same; but there is also a strong link between the personal ethics and professional ethics. I contemplate that whatever behaviour a person show at his workplace‚ is actually a mirror of his personal
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. What is your perception of personal ethics Vs professional ethics? If different‚ can you explain the difference? A brief definition of personal ethics according to me would be an individual’s belief about morality or conscience .It defines our stand on what is right or wrong.This branch of ethics gradually develops since our childhood and tend to emulate the things which are set as an moral value to us by our parents or guardians in the family.It can heavily be influenced from any major incident
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Discussion 4: Challenges of Applied Ethics/Ethical Decision Making/Ethics of Distribution Actions for Discussion 4: Challenges of Applied Ethics/Ethical Decision Making/Ethics of Distribution Click here to start your thread. Make sure you read both articles and cover most questions. ASSIGNMENT: You must show a word count! You are required to have a minimum of 350 to 400 words! Part 1 1. With the Information Age‚ communication and access to information has been made easier and faster. These new dynamics
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