Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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participate in illegal activity‚ (2) the employee’s refusal to forsake the performance of an important public duty or obligation‚ (3) the employee’s refusal to forego the exercise of a job-related legal right or privilege‚ (4) the employee’s "whistleblowing" activity or other conduct exposing the employer’s wrongdoing‚ and (5) the employee’s performance of an act that public policy would encourage under circumstances where retaliatory discharge is supported by evidence of employer’s bad faith‚ malice
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FINAL DRAFT Children and Young People’s Core Unit 3.3 24 November 2009 Children and Young People’s Core Unit 3.3: Understand how to Safeguard the well being of Children and Young People Title Unit 3.3: Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people 3 3 Assessment criteria The learner can: 1.1. Outline current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people 1.2. Explain child protection
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Elizabeth McCrimmon Unit 516 Understand safeguarding of children and young people. Whilst my area of work is adults‚ there is an expectation that I have an awareness of safeguarding children. Through my work‚ I come into contact with children as relatives of the service users who live in our residential home and also as possible new service users for our respite unit‚ as part of transitions from children’s to adult services. Our company recognises this and our policy ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups’
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1. What is the name of the company Mark works for? -ADM (Archers Daniels Midland) 2. The main character states that if you’re a stockholder‚ all you care about is-that corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other 3. Where does Mark Whitacre live during the movie?- Germany 4. How much money was ADM losing per month in the lysine business because of the virus? 7million per month 5. If you give chicken corn six months instead of -8 6. Where were the phone calls coming in? -ADM Business line
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There are no ethical principles in business (33 Some may argue that ethical principles have no role in business and the two do not go hand in hand. However many would argue that this statement is in fact not true as they is a wide variety of theories available ‚each of which hold their own ethical principles and in fact these principles are what makes a business truly successful in all aspects. Many of the ethical issues in business are covered by the code of ethics. Concerning both the employers
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UN Declaration on Human Rights; UN Global Compact; economic activity e.g. location Understand ethics in workplace relationships Working relationships: contractual responsibilities; moral obligations in employer/employee relationships; whistleblowing; the psychological contract; good practice in equal opportunities employment; organisational integrity; working conditions; individual ethical responsibilities; individual ethical
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Illuminati: a myth or reality? "Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies‚ which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface” (1) quotes Arthur Edward Waite‚ a scholarly mystic who had particular interest in occult and esoteric schemes. Secret societies have existed since the dawn of mankind‚ as some people deem it necessary to hide certain ideas and plans from the general public‚ mostly due to their
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Corporate governance bmg718 | Corporate Governance Benchmarking Project | BDO LLP UK | | Melanie Lloyd‚ B00532809 | 5/7/2013 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Theories of Corporate Governance 6 3. BDO Governance in Practice 12 4. Conclusion 15 5. Bibliography 16 1. Introduction 1.1. Evolution of Corporate Governance There are a number of ways of defining ‘corporate governance’; operationally it is considered to be “the process by which companies are directed
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Business ethics Name Institution Business Ethics Question 1: What is the moral point of view and why is it important? Does it make sense to say that business people must operate from the perspective of the moral point of view? Why‚ or why not? Answer: Business ethics refers to the study of proper business policies and practices‚ with regards to the potential controversial issues such as corporate governance‚ discrimination‚ bribery among others (Madsen & Shafritz 1990)
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